Unequivocally Good Things (...people, places...)

[Big Al]

Jesus

My family

Jim Sangrey ramblings (both verbal and musical)

Jim R e-mails

Uncle Skid's taste in music

SNL Celebrity Jeopardy parodies with "Sean Connery"

Ben Webster

Sweets Edison

Matthew 11:28

Sonic Youth (and getting grief from clem over it)

Pepsi

Bill Evans MOON BEAMS and HOW MY HEART SINGS

Nina's Cafe in downtown Grand Prairie

Looney Tunes 1941-1959

Tex Avery

"Frankenbass," my customized frets-ripped-out complete-with-duct-tape Fender

[Big Al]

William Frawley

Watching him and Vivian Vance on I LOVE LUCY is like watching my in-laws. They always keep me in stitches!

[ghost of miles]

Fred Astaire. (I even loved him in The Towering Inferno)

...

William Frawley

Frawley pops up in two of my favorite holiday movies/scenes... his behind-closed-doors talk with the judge in MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET ("you can count on just two votes... your own and the district attorney's!") and in THE LEMON-DROP KID (singing "Silver bells, silver bells... let's put some dough in the kitty").

For me:

My wife

My job

Our house

Tuesday breakfast at the Runcible Spoon in Bloomington

Mosaic sets (too obvious?)

NY Review of Books

Duke Ellington, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, plus myriad other jazz immortals

Coffee... coffee... and more coffee.

[clifford_thornton]

Livin'

Not much is "unequivocally" good, but my bias leans toward family, health, music, art, books, a double short Americano with the right amount of crema, and a few other things...

[BeBop]

Mustard. On anything. (Almost) As a vegetarian, I've found it essential to give horribly bland food some taste.

Tazo teas are good, provided one doesn't think about where they come from.

[Jazzmoose]

Moose be the Jeezus of Kool.

That was a lowe blow!

Edited December 7, 2006 by Jazzmoose

[sheldonm]

M&Ms....no peanuts!

[danasgoodstuff]

My wife

My daughter

My dad

My brothers

As much as I love C-melodies, Studebakers, Scotland, Blue Note, etc. none of them are quite perfect...the persons listed above may not be perfect either, but that just makes them perfectly human.

[Big Al]

Moose be the Jeezus of Kool.

That was a lowe blow!

Nooooooooo..........

[chris olivarez]

Moose be the Jeezus of Kool.

That was a lowe blow!

Jazzmoose,Jazzmoose.

[Rooster_Ties]

(in no particular order...)

- Dark chocolate, and even darker chocolate.

- Side One of Julian Priester's Love, Love.

- The collective wisdom of this board.

- My lovely and wonderful wife.

- That bite in Woody Shaw's tone.

- Singing Mahler's 8th -- in a chorus of 250, on stage with a symphony orchestra of nearly 140.

- My two kitty-cats -- especially the one that licks the water off my ankles just after I get out of the shower most days.

- My parents.

- Seeing B&W movies on the big screen.

- Cities, and architecture.

- The collective wisdom of Jim Sangry.

- The judicious way Jim Alfredson runs this board.

(more later, perhaps)

Edited December 12, 2006 by Rooster_Ties

[chris olivarez]

Pagosa Springs in the summertime.

[BruceH]

Looney Tunes 1941-1959

[Aggie87]

SNL Celebrity Jeopardy parodies with "Sean Connery"

"...I'll take "The Rapist" for $200, Alex."

[Sundog]

In no particular order......

- The Saturday evening "hang" around the firepit after all the kids have went to bed.

- Apple Sauce

- WDCB

- Listening to Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross" and watching the sun rise over Lake Michigan.

- Balanced Audio Technology

- Derek Trucks tearing it up no more than 30 feet away from me

- Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby