r'giap- I just saw your posts. thank you.

amen

there's a ring around the moon. we're gonna fly all night just to see you.

Posted by: fauxreal | Dec 11 2006 7:52 utc | 101

Damn, all the mooner's will be gone, this bar will be like a smoky ghost and all hell will break loose in eye rack, while most the gang is in Hamburg ;-(

You guys suck!...who will I drink with then?

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 11 2006 10:09 utc | 102

Uncle's continuing saga of, the war at home...

Senator: Illegal images must be reported

Millions of commercial Web sites and personal blogs would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000, if a new proposal in the U.S. Senate came into law.

Gee, Senator. I wish you were as worried about a President who lied this nation into a war. Of course, this is to stop any and all dissent and or nonconformists. You know, such things as:

Truth, Torture and the American Way

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 11 2006 11:15 utc | 103

Leave it to McCain to protect us from the enemy. Quick! There is a child molester at every corner! Unfortunately GOP (Group of Perverts)and McCain are the enemy.

But hey, it's ok to kill them,says McCain.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 11 2006 11:56 utc | 104

@ Uncle (102) - Maybe the moon will become a group blog for about a week?

I doubt the bar will close. [chin up]

Posted by: beq | Dec 11 2006 16:24 utc | 105

Today we learn that Enron's outside law firm, Vinson & Elkins, has escaped unscathed. The Enron debacle sucked in many people, but the lawyers have so far not been held liable. But many have asked:what about the lawyers (pdf) ?

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 11 2006 19:25 utc | 106

pinochet the pig is dead

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 11 2006 21:32 utc | 107

slothrup:

Thanks again for the concert. I never followed Anthony Braxton. It was a plaesure to listen to this. I lost track of jazz after Eric Dolphy died.

Eric seemed to be the end of a strain that went from Bird, at least, to Trane to himself that was not only musically inventive, in the miraculous way of jazz, with walk-ons of extraordinary, well practiced ability, deeply knowledgeable and appreciative of all that had gone before, showing up to carry the music forward, but who also had a deep personal feeling for the spiritual qualities of the music.

Anna missed had a quote from Cecil Taylor, I can't find it now, but I saw one from Trane in Wikipedia that struck me as right.

"I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed."

And that's what his music does for me. His and Monk's and Dolphy's and Cecil's, and Memphis Slim's.

To me it's the best stuff America has ever produced.

Strangely America doesn't seem to value it at all.

The Japanese have long since bought it all, Blue Note, Verve, you name it.

That's the tell. A nation that let all that jazz slip through it's fingers no longer knew the value of anything at all.

Posted by: John Francis Lee | Dec 12 2006 9:45 utc | 108

That is an all-out fucking war in Gaza now.

I hate to think where this is going.

Posted by: Dismal Science | Dec 13 2006 14:35 utc | 109