I'm loving that we're getting some NS and other 'regional' songs/artists. This will make me think extra-hard about including some Boston-music.

Sue, I think it is evident from your mix that we both watched a lot of MuchMusic around the same time. I'm laughing and loving being reminded of that era by some of your choices. I have to say I hadn't thought of Mitsou in a long time.

I love that Cloudbusting video and always will.

I swear, Mitsou is everywhere!

I am slooooooow, but I'll have mine up by tomorrow night...

Is there a max size of file that you can send through gmail? I'm on attempt #3 to send one file that almost 6Mb.

Gmail's max is 10mb. If you keep having trouble, though, you may just be better off using YouSendIt. It's what I do.

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In events which once seemed only slightly less unlikely than Mike Bloomfield, who died in 1981, reuniting with Paul Butterfield, it was reported over the weekend that the legendary Roxy Music have been recording with the legendary Brian Eno for the first time in more than 30 years.

Here's one for David (Donald Fagen on Henry Mancini, esp. Peter Gunn. And one for Corwood. I really like this part of the latter piece:

Fagen: But isn't it true that the Leone films, with their elevation of mythic structures, their comic book visual style and extreme irony, are now perceived as signaling an aesthetic transmutation by a generation of artists and filmmakers? And isn't it also true that your music for those films reflected and abetted Leone's vision by drawing on the same eerie catalog of genres—Hollywood western, Japanese samurai, American pop, and Italian Opera? That your scores functioned both "inside" the film as a narrative voice and "outside" the film as the commentary of a winking jester? Put it all together and doesn't it spell "postmodern", in the sense that there has been a grotesque encroachment of the devices of art and, in fact, an establishment of a new narrative plane founded on the devices themselves? Isn't that what's attracting lower Manhattan?

Morricone: [ shrugs ]

Understatement and people getting whacked in the head are my favorite comic devices.

And speaking of comedy, Mr. Smay, I finally got the Tick DVDs. It confirmed my mantra that Patrick Warburton should be in everything. Liz Vassey, too. (That picture is my wallpaper at work; gets some strange looks.) The whole cast is great, and one great guest star after another! Dave Foley, of course, but also his predecessor at WNYX, Kurt "Destroyo" Fuller (Dave - the character - replaced him as news director in the Newsradio pilot); Armin "Snyder" Shimerman, unrecognizable, or at least unrecognized on first watch, under a crapload of makeup as The Terror; Kari Coleman, the bitchy, thieving health teacher Mrs. Hauser on Veronica Mars (and IRL Mrs. Kyle "Jake Kane but he'll always be Tim Bayliss to me" Secor as the Tick's "wife" in "The License"; Sam "The Immortal" McMurray, who's well-known to any Tracy Ullman Show fan; and my favorite, Peter Bergman as Metcalf, the guy who needs a machine to poop. Who he? Who HE? Peter Bergman? Betty Jo Bialoski? Melanie Haber? Oh, you mean Nancy! Yep, Peter Mudhead Bergman in the flesh. That Captain Liberty's got a balcony you could do Shakespeare from! And I want some Tick antennae! I'd pay good money for those! Somebody get me away from this damn exclamation point! It's like I just reread The Dog of the South! That may be the most arcane joke I've made in this thread!

Okay. I'm done. Sorry about that.

It confirmed my mantra that Patrick Warburton should be in everything.

Heh. When I met Jennifer Tilley the only celebrity I grilled her about was Patrick Warburton. Woody Allen? Whatever, tell me about working with Warburton.

Have you seen The Woman Chaser with him? Based on a Charles Willeford novel. Half serious, half completely not. But in an interesting balance.

Have you seen The Woman Chaser with him?

He's a much funnier interpretive dancer than John Malkovich. And he was about the only good thing about Newsradio season 5. Except of course for, "Are you Doobie Keebler?"