no yu begin wher i end

Long time, no see. How's it going?

Count Bubba - Gordon Goodwin

The Thrill Is Gone - BB King

Antics - Interpol

Family Happiness - Mountain Goats

Run - Snow Patrol

Cd's, a harmon mute, some blank shirts so I can print my own stuff on them, maybe a good book or two. And a flugelhorn.

Waste - Phish

Considering how much they seem to do together, performance-wise, but I'm not complaining ;) .

Third the Weakerthans, maybe Inward Eye. Christine Fellows is pretty good, too.

Take The A-Train - Duke Ellington

If the stores had their way, all the time would be for shopping.

I had three pieces of fruit, if that counts. Are you a band nerd, and if yes what is your favourite song that you're playing right now? (We just had our concert, I'm a little pumped).

Even the unauthenticity of those documents have been disputed, too, although it's never made its way to prominence.

Castle On A Cloud - Les Mis

Nice. Did your friend laugh when Valjean dragged Marius across the stage near the end? ;)

1) Blue Skies Over Bad Lands 2) Workers Sing A Song Of Mass Production 3) Born To Kill 4) Strange Days

Les Mis is a sweet, sweet musical. Yes, that's right. A musical. My school just finished performing it this week, I was doing sound effects because I'm not vocally gifted. It has a wonderful score and some excellent songs. Anyone else enjoy it?

Does it have to be a singer/band? I just did a 4000-word essay on jazz-trumpeter Miles Davis, try and get his biography (by Ian Carr) or autobiography (written with Quincy Troupe). The thing about Miles was that he was constantly changing his music, he must've gone through 7 or 8 different styles from 1945 to 1991. But since you want post-1955, I'll try to break it down very generally: 1955-58: First Great Quintet with John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums). Key albums: Cookin', Workin', Steamin', Relaxin'. These were all recorded in two seperate sessions, and most of the songs are first takes. 1957-59: Orchestral collaborations with Gil Evans. Sketches of Spain, Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess are the albums. Orchestral jazz such as this pretty much didn't exist until this. Late 50s-early 60s: Modal jazz. Kind of Blue was the first record to make soloing over scales (modes) instead of chords popular and is probably Miles' single greatest contribution to jazz (in my opinion). Mid-to-late-60s: "Free bop" with Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums). This group was pretty experimental for jazz of the day. In many songs there is little or no swing (when eighth-notes are played in a long-short long-short pattern) and the drumming actually starts to resemble rock in some ways (which is where Miles was heading). 1968-1975: Fusion - Essentially combining jazz and rock into one. It started with electric instruments on some songs from Miles in the Sky and continued to the fully electric In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew (probably the definitive fusion album), and A Tribute to Jack Johnson (Jack Johnson was a boxer in the early 20th century). Later in the 70s, the music started to turn farther away from jazz and more towards African-influenced rhythms and melodies. On the Corner is a good album for that. From 1975 to 1980, Miles was just a druggie who holed up in his home and pretty much wasted away until 1980. 1980-1991: Disco/funk - Developing more of a disco-inspired sound and beats, it's pretty self-explanitory. Synthesizers and electric guitars drive the songs. Personally, it's not my favourite but there are some good songs there. Aura is a good album. When he died in 1991, he recorded a hip-hop album called Doo-Bop. Anyways, there's a brief overview of Miles Davis 1955-onwards. Hopefully that helps. Some of the later material (1970-onwards) is a little hard to find over file-sharing services.

I can't say no to some mint tea with honey in it.

This hubris was my undoing.

Whatever, if Harper loses this one I doubt he'll be leading the Conservatives much longer.

I wish I was that malleable.

The best way to strengthen immune systems is to just eat off of crap. That should become national policy. Last year in October, we were doing a lab in physics - which is also the room in which i eat my lunch (chess club. Shut up.). We had to wipe down the tables with white, wet paper towels, which immediately turned a thick yellow-green. This was 2 weeks after our teacher had washed those table with disinfectant. I've been eating in there almost every day for the last 3 years or so and I've only been sick once (last week). Thus the adage is proven: what doesn't kill me only makes me stronger. It's 2 am. What do you expect?

Really? What are some songs like this?