Matthew

AAJ is a nice site, but I rarely post there, mostly lurk. The only other forum I really post on is the Steve Hoffman Forum, for my rock fix. They even post about the Beatles there every now and then.

Usually, not much going on during football. Though strangely enough, I've logged on at various points of the day and night, I've never come on with no one else logged on. Be it 1:00 a.m. PST, or even 2:00 a.m., someones always looking in. Wonder if anyone has been on by him/her self.

No tv for me. I'm just sitting here listening to Wish You Were Here.

James Bladwin had a preacher say something similar in Another Country. Great minds think a like....

I'm another one of those BNBB people that followed the call to the dark side -- went by JuJu.

Oh my! I'm listening to disk one of this box set as I type... this is some nasty stuff.

What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves 1976-1977 H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams in the Witch House. The Complete Philips Recordings. Pink Floyd: Ummagumma

Evil Americans doing bad things to the Japanese. I guess in your world Nanking never happened.

Yeah. If you followed the AFC in the 70's, especially the AFC West (I lived in San Diego), Davis/Raiders were the ultimate Bad Ass of the NFL. Heck, I even remember those old AFL Raider vs. Chargers games at Balboa Stadium. It's is very sad to see Davis go out like this.

To go off-topic. I love those old pictures of jazz musicians and gangsters with baseball players in the 20' & 30s; Big Bands even had teams that played against other Big Bands. It would be an interesting articles about the connection between Jazz and the Negro League, I think that musicians like Ellington gave financial support at times to teams.

Of course, the 1961 season was when "The New Washington Senators" began their season after the "Old Senators" became the Twins. So, I guess the stats could be schizophrenic on this point.

I don't know why you think this page shows that WJ's statistics belong with today's Rangers. For one thing, according to his ESPN stats page, Johnson threw two no-hitters in his career, yet they aren't listed under Rangers pitchers who threw no-hitters. That would be because Johnson's Senators became today's Twins, where Johnson holds just about every team record. Since it shows the 1961 Senators as part the the Rangers history, if you keep going down, you'll eventually reach the years for Johnson -- in theory, at least. But, either way, those old Senator are like the St. Louis Browns, long gone, alive in memory and history books.

According to ESPN, the Texas Rangers.

Is there a linky-dinky for this?

I attended UCSD in the late 70s, so was able to listen to the lectures he gave to us non-music students. Very enjoyable presenter, who, as was stated in the article, inspire us non musicians to a love of jazz.

$37.79 for ten cds of live Miles -- great deal.

The Monkees: More of the Monkees. In a 60's rock thing lately for some reason.

Chuck Nessa:

I'd also stay home for Genesis without Peter Gabriel, but you how Chewy is about Phil Collins... But, If they come to Seattle or Portland, I'd probably give it a shot.

Report that the SF Giants are thinking of voiding Bonds' contract. What a fiasco this year is going to be for baseball as Bonds breaks the HR record. What a fitting way for the Bud Selig Era to come to a close. Bonds' leaked results could handcuff Giants Henry Schulman, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, January 18, 2007 Six weeks after he reached a tentative deal to return to San Francisco for a 15th season, Barry Bonds remains a non-Giant. He has no contract. He is not on the 40-man roster, and his one-year, $15.8 million agreement has not been formalized in a letter of agreement submitted to Major League Baseball and the Players Association. Now, less than four weeks before pitchers and catchers report to spring training, there are questions about whether the team wants that agreement filed. The Giants have discussed walking away from the Bonds deal, according to people familiar with their thinking, because of the myriad difficulties in finalizing a contract. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported the Giants put the brakes on negotiations and quoted an unnamed lawyer on the Bonds side as speculating the Giants might want to back out of the deal following the fallout from last week's revelation that Bonds failed an amphetamine test and initially blamed it on a substance he took from teammate Mark Sweeney's locker. In an interview Wednesday, general manager Brian Sabean declined to address the Times story or whether he is exploring alternatives to signing Bonds. Sabean merely reiterated the club's official position, saying, "The player is unsigned and contract issues remain unresolved. That hasn't changed." Ironically, the leaked drug test that embarrassed Bonds last week might be his best insurance policy for staying with the Giants in 2007. According to multiple industry sources, the Giants cannot use the failed drug test to walk away from the contract because legally they should not have received the confidential information. Even if the Giants decided to nullify the deal for other reasons, Bonds could argue in a grievance that the drug test was the real cause and win a judgment. Moreover, one lawyer who works in the industry but is not connected to Bonds or the Giants said if the deal crumbles, Bonds might have a strong case against MLB or the union for sabotaging it if he can prove one or the other leaked the positive amphetamine test. On the other hand, Bonds' case might be weakened because he and the Giants did not submit a letter of agreement to MLB and the union when they reached financial terms, which would have made it binding. The Giants say that was Bonds' choice, because he wanted certain contract issues settled first. The Giants and Bonds struck their tentative agreement Dec. 7. Bonds' agent, Jeff Borris, who declined comment Wednesday, had predicted it would take weeks to complete the language. According to a source familiar with the events, there were negotiations as recently as last week. The source said Bonds attended a daylong meeting at Borris' Southern California office, with Giants officials on speaker phone, and that a Major League Baseball official was present to discuss security for Bonds and his family as he pursues the career home-run record. The Chronicle has reported that Bonds wanted security issues addressed in his contract. The Giants' principal demands reportedly center on Bonds' conformity to team rules and restricting clubhouse access to his associates. Unclear is whether the Giants are pursuing language allowing them to dock Bonds' pay for time he might have to spend in court if he is indicted for perjury in the BALCO steroids case. Giants officials have downplayed that angle, but agents for other players the Giants brought on board this winter said the team presented them with contract language dealing with time spent in court. Some speculated it was created for Bonds but included in all proposed contracts for the sake of uniformity. The agents balked at the language, which is one reason none of the nine free agents who signed letters of agreement with the Giants has signed his contract. The Giants have rescinded the language, and Sabean said the issue of unsigned contracts was a technicality blown out of proportion in a published report last week. "As a matter of fact," Sabean said, "out of 198 free agents that have come under letter of agreement, only 21 contracts have been approved in baseball, which means the contract language and terms have been signed, sealed and delivered and reported to the union." Although Barry Zito, Rich Aurilia, Dave Roberts, Steve Kline, Pedro Feliz, Ray Durham, Bengie Molina, Russ Ortiz and Ryan Klesko have not signed contracts, terms of their deals have been reported officially and the players were placed on the Giants' 40-man roster. They are considered signed players, and even if there is haggling over contract language, their deals are binding. Bonds is not legally considered a signed player, and spring training is just around the bend. But he sounds as though he expects to be playing somewhere in 2007. Bonds, in the Dominican Republic for Juan Marichal's golf tournament, told the Associated Press on Wednesday, "I'm sure I'm going to break the (home-run) record this year." E-mail Henry Schulman at hschulman@sfchronicle.com.

Holy moly, the pre-order price on these SACD/DVDs are freekin' $43.75 . Crap! And all I want are the SACDs, I could care less about the DVDs since I only have a laptop to play them on.

John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings. Disk 13. The best $60.00 I've ever spent.

I was thinking about this release yesterday and I'm really interested in what direction Wilson will be going on this new cd. In Absentia and Deadwing had their moments but it seems like the more I listen to them, the lesser they become. Supposedly, Fear of a Blank Planet will just have eight songs, and will be the combination that Wilson has been following the past couple of years, Metal + Prog, which is interesting to a point. The recent DVD that came out, musically, I must admit, hasn't excited me that much after about five or six listens. We'll wait and see. It'll be interesting no matter what.

Those guys rock! The drummer is so deep in the pocket, he's covered with lint!

What can I say? This is still my all-time favorite music clip.