It's an inside-out version of the copyleft symbol.

His performance in Rebel Without A Cause
is better than James Dean's.

Well, we have to be careful what we're talking about with jazz vocals. There are the crooners like Crosby, Sinatra, Perry Como, then their are the scat singers like Ella, Louis Armstrong, The Andrews Sisters, Cab Calloway who incorporate improvisation into their technique and mimic the instruments which takes a lot of…

Yeah. I wish more artists would collaborate like the jazz musicians of the 50's and 60's did. Hip-Hop does this successfully and has flourished but rock and roll seems to place too much emphasis on "the band" as a single unit to ever do this on a large scale.

I "prefer" Davis but Coltrane is the greatest individual performer in jazz history in my opinion, taking jazz to philosophical/metaphysical heights, turning music into a spiritual journey. This makes his later albums hard to listen to but doesn't stop me from admiring their ambition and scope.

I guess I'm the only one in the world who enjoys that song even if it is out of place on the record. I actually made a youtube video inspired by the song along with Bing Crosby's Welcome to My Dream.

Don't forget Something Else
where Miles plays sideman for Cannonball Adderley.

Am I the only one who liked Interpol's new album?
Their best since Turn on the Bright Lights.

Yes! Crystal Castles should have been on this list. It's in my top ten.

No mention of He Would Have Laughed?
best song of the year on the best album of the year.

In Freedom - A Poem by Paul Weston
I threw it all away on a new morning, leaving
With the door closed. Let him find freedom
In Calcutta, let her bear a child's woe.
Baltimore is behind me, streets
Where I am passenger I am uncertain of where to go.
Uncertainty a disease I cling patiently to as a stranger speaks
Of what is…

Silly Rabbit, Comics Are For Kids!
But how many will read the comics.
And how many comics will be gentrified into stale yet watchable "adult" TV dramas?

An Ode To Terriers

Whoops! You were talking about The Beyond, but The Last Time I Saw Paris was also on TCM this weekend so I got confused. The Beyond is a pretty good horror flick and can be watched here:

No. It's a fairly boring melodrama, but it is in the public domain if you really want to watch it. Elizabeth Taylor's in it and that's about all it has going for it.

The Last Time I Saw Paris…
France. Nobody beats 'em. Last to hold out. To stare at the originals. The paintings. The walkers hobble past the masters as the living patrons once did. Is there still a recognition, a pattern they follow down the long hallways? Do they empathize, even more now, with the statues, with the…

I want to hold this box set
between my knees.

things fall apart…
…dogs bark…

I felt…
joy.

I felt…
joy.