Lammycat

There should be helmets for people to wear when talking on a cell phone. A self-contained area for people to ask each other where they at every 10 minutes.

How come people don't carry boom boxes down the street anymore? I miss being able to randomly hear other people's favorite music in public.

I don't have a cell phone but I do carry around a truck air horn I like to randomly blare in public. It's how I communicate.

to you.

The Compendiums?

I think you're right. I'm not real sure on Betty board recordings from '74. I know that the crew (Kidd, Parish, etc.) were patching into the soundboard often at this time, but for official and/or sbd stuff, I'm short on memory, but I think I recall that betty was not doing many of the '74 shows....

The '74 era is excellent. There are songs from this period that just worked really well with the line-up. China->Rider is a good example. While I enjoy earlier and later versions of the combo (or the songs as independents) the seque between the two songs really hit a magical peak around this time. There was something happening in the jam between the two songs that's hard to explain but it just worked really, really well. The WRS stuff, too.

Does it say that Democrats are more resilient? Better mannered? Lazy? I think a lot of these threads mimic, in large part, what happens in the national media: finger-pointing and name-calling from both sides. In a large sense, it's become comedic in a Gilbert Gottfried vein. At least for me.

I picked this up yesterday. Never been a huge Elvis guy, but this is pretty damn good: ed. Oops. Actually, the one I have doesn't match the pic. I've got the Viva Las Vegas one going. Same cover, though.

The Ornette Coleman stuff is great (Garcia was a huge fan of his, too) as well as MB's mention of the David Murray show above. There is some great stuff, as mentioned by A-man, that Branford Marsalis did with the band, as well. Notably the 3-29-90 Nassau show (the "Eyes" is on Without a Net) in which he sat in the entire second set (as well as on "Bird Song" in the first set). The "Dark Star," "Wheel," "Lovelight," and that "Eyes" of particular note. http://www.archive.org/details/gd90-03-29....1317.sbeok.shnf Also, I've always quite enjoyed the 1990 New Years with Branford sitting in on

I've got about 100 pages left of Water for Elephants to go but this came in yesterday and I started it last night: I always like getting a balanced take on people and this certainly seems to be one. Jann Wenner was obviously very tight with HST and he, along with the other author (who worked as an assistant/researcher for HST for about a decade), hand-picked the content of the material for the book from over three-times the amount of interviews that actually made the cut. It's got a lot of the crazy shit he was known for in it but also has the other side that only those very close to h

You've obviously never seen Patrick Ewing about a minute-and-a-half into a basketball game.

Wow, some crazy shit played at the Phil shows. Nice that RA sat in. I was thinking Weir might sit in as he was in the area, too. I wasn't holding my breath on that one, though. Boris the Spider, Dead Flowers, etc. Nice.

I was able to get a bunch (about 30-40) off of archives but would have gotten a lot more, of course, had I known. I guess they're not killing the idea of putting out whole-show releases, but still, it's at the whim of the organization/corporation.

Decent enough concept. Dick's Picks is done with. Complete shows are still the ticket, though. And some more dvd stuff would be great.

Bump for RA on Letterman tonight.

I don't get it.

My kid wore his Yankee's Little League cap to school Monday, the day after the Sox clinched the WS.

Dunn contract extension in Cincy for $13 m/1-yr.: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3088827 And Schilling "narrows" his teams-he'd-play-for list to 13 (Sox at top, of course): http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3087824 Also, Met's re-up Moises Alou for $7.5 m. And FWIW, Nate Silver's (Baseball Prospectus) take on A-Rod->Sox: "Doing something drastic like going after Alex Rodriguez, on the other hand, is neither particularly defensible nor particularly likely. The Red Sox do well enough on the field, at the gate, and in player development that they have little

Yes! It was Rabid. How could I have forgotten the name?! The chick I was dating at the time was ticked that it was the only thing I brought home from Blockbuster that night. Also, I just remembered the original movie of The Body Snatchers was a pretty good scare. And the original The Blob was both funny and scary to me as a kid.

This flick is more a psychological horror flick. There is a lot of suspense and a great plot but no gore/guts for sheer terror factor. Which makes it a very good flick, in my book. The Exorcist still rankles me on the scarey level. Psycho still gets the job done, too.Perkins is just so damn creepy in it and Hitchcock is a master of suspense. As scarey/Horror movies aren't really my bag, I thought The Village was pretty good on this front. I know this movie gets slammed often but I'm not so sure why. I was intriqued by it and thought it was pretty well done. the suspense and creepyness fact

I rented a movie about fifteen years ago that featured a porn actress (I forget her name) who killed people through the teeth in her armpits. It wasn't a porno. I guess it wasn't really scary either. Mommie Dearest scared the tar out of me, though.

Thanks, PS!