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Mel had a crush on Jones when she was around 8, "but totally fell in love with Smith when I was older" (probably 9). I only remembered the bank safe jokes. Anyway, fun what you can find on Hulu. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHge2ag6dTk

By not selling them anymore?

The Alias Smith & Jones pilot.

Been interested in their players, but price has always been an obstacle. Interesting they're going crowd sourcing now (and much lower price).

The New Joe Schmo Show

In case you want to participate in the first ever public voting process for induction... http://jalc.org/2013-jazz-hall-of-fame-vote Choices: Jimmie Blanton James P. Johnson Lionel Hampton Teddy Wilson Kenny Clarke Art Blakey Roy Haynes Don Redman Clark Terry Ben Webster

I can certainly sympathize with lines drawn over uneasiness. I have mine and they're not far from this. I guess where I differentiate BB from 24, The Shield, etc. is the surgical use of violence, shifting loyalties, POV conflicts, etc. to tell an overarching [morality?] tale. There's hardly a gratuitous use of conflict in the series so far (a trait shared with The Wire). Look at the individual deaths in the series. Each more morally indefensible than the last. They're deliberating taking steps down. It reminds me of David O. Russell's Three Kings - a war film where every bullet had a purpose. I'll go deeper in an uncomfortable realm as long as it's justified, though there's still a limit. And probably equally amazing (and related) is the old good guy/bad guy bubble structure. The Godfathers operatic tale is all about that. Root for Corleones 'cause the other families are even worse. Scorsese did his take with Goodfellas by popping the bubble and bringing the public in. BBs weakness may be avoiding the street users (with the exception of a little ATM tinkering), but I love the shifting multiple bubbles on various levels. Walt, Jesse, Skyler, Hank, Mike, etc. are each others gardian angels at different times. And it rarely feels like "A ha, they're going for gray!". There can be TV tricks, but overall it's just strongly written conflicting POVs (yet, never forgetting the 'downfall' main story). It's pretty amazing. I really don't know if the Walt or Hank character transformation is more fun to watch. Hank was the opposite of good in the first season "I'll take care of your family" incredible scene. Not exactly evil, but so very wrong. Hank and Walt, a double helix. EDIT: We live in an interesting TV time. The Sopranos was so good, who would have thought we'd have multiple series (Wire, BB) progressing past it so soon after?

I'm officially throwing my support behind the second season. The fifth is the one I had the most trouble with. Shelly, I remember you starting Breaking Bad. I think there was a darkness/hubby issue, but ever get very far with that?

I thought that was the second season. Three's politics right?

Not bad, huh?

Just out of curiosity - that woman's name wasn't Rose/Rosa was it?

Scan to PDF seems kinda useful... TinyScan Pro for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad for free

Almost all the chicks. There was a legendary one in Santa Rosa...

Vincent 24/192 DAC-1 (demo) for $199: http://www.audioadvisor.com/sale/salepage.html Can't find any reviews, but here's a direct link: http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=1VIDAC1

Joining the Trane train...

Have a great HBD.

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horace silver quintet | tokyo blues | 45s

Not sure if we all saw the same video (below), but without a doubt the most disheartening comments were around the line of DSD is good, but Double DSD, man, that sounds like vinyl/studio/real/whatever... That said as long as the hardware is compatible it's more a 24/96 v. 24/192 than BR v. HDDVD comparison (at least in playback competition), no? And of course the number of DSD studio recordings (before PCM mixdown to Redbook, etc.) has to be huge compared to the number of SACDs ever released or current DSD downloads. Again, I'm excited about DSD, but the difference between DACs at the before mentioned DAC-off was greater in any format than between formats. Thus buying that good old ECD-1.

No cable here for years. Get content from Netflix, Hulu+, BT, Digital broadcasts over antenna, and through browser. Currently done with iPad/Nexus 7, MacBook, and Roku/GoogleTV boxes. Don't watch much sports and tend to watch more films than TV, so situation may be different, but besides an occasional broadcast I haven't missed cable at all. Thankfully BT helps with the Girls and recent Breaking Bad ep. fixes.

Report back. Been curious on that set.

I call mine "Mother" so I can ask it questions while pretending to be on a commercial deep space mining ship.

Part 1 of Makers: Women Who Make America on PBS.

In Search of Van Cliburn http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/search-van-cliburn “I felt faint until I realized that the music was so beautiful that I had been holding my breath. I think of that Van Cliburn concert as my first experience of artistic beauty.”

a place at the table soundtrack