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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Music: Body and Soul: Just Because It's June, June, June!
A bunch of tracks recorded at the soundboards of various venues in Japan in November of 1981 have been digitized by the indefatigable Rocco. Now that I can listen to them, I discover that they are seriously spectacular as is this track recorded at a town in Japan called Tottori. The band is Art, George Cables, David Williams, Carl Burnett.
I've put the track up here because it's incomplete (so I probably won't be releasing it; I know you guys and your tricks. Many of you know how to download it and keep it.) So now I'm making it easier for everyone to download. You can play it, just as is. And/Or you can click the link below the player (where it says "Right-Click Right Here")and download the track as an mp3 and put it in your iTunes or whatever. And it is free. And, you know, you could donate, too (below). Any amount.
Body and Soul, missing the intro and the first four bars.
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6 comments:
- AnonymousJune 12, 2012 at 12:55 PM
Thanks Laurie!ReplyDelete
As usual, Laurie, thanks for another wonderful "taste." Listening to Art is always a treasure.ReplyDelete
Chuck Crawford
I love it, such beauty, and the comments at the end as well.ReplyDelete
There's another version of Body and Soul from Japan and it's different but also great.
- AnonymousJune 12, 2012 at 7:10 PM
Omega Alpha was the first Art Pepper record I ever bought (I've still got the vinyl LP). I can't tell you how many times I've listened to this version (Omega Alpha) of Body and Soul.ReplyDelete
I truly believe that nobody, absolutely nobody, can play Body and Soul on the alto that matches this version... except of course Art Pepper.
THIS version is absolutely wonderful. Every time I listen to Body and Soul (Omega Alpha) I will be listening to this one as well.
Art Pepper does what this song is supposed to do, be played with Body and Soul.
Many thanks Laurie for this masterpiece
Great. Thanks LaurieReplyDelete
Thanks so much!!ReplyDelete


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Should learning how to use the Penomet penis pump be part of sex education classes? Some people think so. Read on to find out more…
Four weeks into the new term, the nights are drawing in, there is no gas to go anywhere and a headmaster's thoughts inevitably turn to sex, specifically to sex education.
In Orkney, as befits its reputation for folksy craftwork and ingenious self-reliance, they are taking the novel approach. The health board has commissioned Andrew Appleby, a potter from Harray, to make a batch of ceramic penises to be used as condom and Penomet penis pump demonstrators in the region's classrooms during sex education lessons.
"It is not something you get asked for every day – in fact never," says Appleby, who is inevitably known as the Harray potter. "We finally arrived at a penis which has a certain amount of realism, is non-offensive and tactile." No mean achievement in anybody's book.
Who's Responsibility Is It?
On the mainland, things are more conventional. Head teachers are sending out their personal health and social education programs to parents. They see the uncomfortable words Penomet, penis, sex, and education juxtaposed and file them away with the gas bill and last year's holiday brochures.
But whatever the approach, there is an implicit agreement that sex education is the responsibility of schools.
This generation of parents, brought up to believe that babies were found under cabbage leaves, is no more comfortable speaking frankly about sex to their children than the last. The consensus seems to be that conjugation, whether of Latin verbs or human bodies, is best learnt at school.
But squeezing in a half-hour lesson in contraception and how to use Penomet penis pumps between double math and playtime is not good enough. It is also not working.
Alarming Statistics on Sexually Active Teenagers
Last month, while mothers were hunting down school skirts which complied with regulations and their daughter's increasingly alarming taste in fashion, Sir David Carter, Scotland's chief medical officer, was presenting some disturbing figures.
By the age of 15, 35% of Scots girls and 30% of boys are sexually active. Many go on to regret this precocity, particularly when the teenage pregnancy rate is one of the highest in Europe and a quarter of all sexually transmitted diseases are contracted by girls aged 15 to 19.
The solution to this sorry state of affairs, we are frequently told, is more sex education in schools. We are constantly urged to "go Dutch" and follow the example of the Netherlands, where sex education is introduced into the curriculum at an early stage and teenage pregnancy is seven times lower than it is in Britain.
A Different Approach to Sex Education
Of course schools have a role to play, but this is only half the story. Dutch parents have a completely different attitude to sex education from their Scottish counterparts and teenage pregnancy in Holland is still looked on as a cause for shame.
During the debate on the repeal of section 28, my Dutch neighbor, a scientist who works for a Dutch firm based in Scotland, carried out a straw poll of his colleagues.
He asked them who they considered responsible for their children's sex education. The Scots unanimously said school. The Dutch replied that they were. Not, perhaps the most reliable research, but a telling insight.

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Police: Fairfield teen drove through red lights, assaulted officers
FAIRFIELD — Police said a Fairfield teenager drove through several red lights on the Post Road Saturday night and kicked officers when they tried to take her into custody.
Cara Fraser, 19, of Sasapequan Road, was charged with interfering with an officer and assault on a police officer.
According to the police report, an officer was stopped at a red light on the Post Road near the Brick Walk when he heard an engine accelerating. He then saw a white SUV, coming in the opposite direction, drive through several red lights. The officer turned around and followed the driver, identified as Fraser, as she turned down Beach Road and made a quick turn into the Gaelic American Club parking lot.
The officer said there was an event going on, and people were walking out of the building as Fraser drove through. The officer used his vehicle to block Fraser from leaving. The report states Fraser refused to open the door and show officers her driver's license. Instead, she began recording the officer. Fraser said she didn't have a driver's license because officers seized it the previous week.
Other officers arrived, and Fraser allegedly began kicking officers from inside her car. She was eventually handcuffed and taken into custody, although she was kicking and banging her head on the partition.
Police allege she was uncooperative during the entire booking process and at one time tried to run out of the booking area.
Fraser was released to her parents on a promise to appear in state Superior Court in Bridgeport March 5.


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The Associated Press reports that two former monks set themselves on fire on Friday in protest at Chinese policy towards Kirti monastery, following another such incident on Monday:
The two former monks, 18-year-old Thongan and 20-year-old Tenzin, set themselves on fire in Aba county in Sichuan province's Aba prefecture Friday, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
Xinhua cited an Aba county spokesman as saying the monks were rescued and were being treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries ….
Overseas Tibet activist groups gave slightly different accounts of the self-immolations. The Washington, D.C.-based International Campaign for Tibet said the two men were named Choephel, 19, and Kayang, 18, and that they clasped their hands together as they set themselves alight.
It and the London-based Free Tibet group said there were unconfirmed reports that Choephel died at the site.
The Guardian notes yet more confusion in accounts of the incident, as well as the relative novelty of this form of protest among Tibetans:
The public security bureau in Aba denied any knowledge of an incident. "Nothing like that happened here. I am not aware of the situation," a spokeswoman told Reuters, despite claims that police officers had helped extinguish the flames and beaten the men as they took them to hospital.
Until 2009 experts knew of only one Tibetan self-immolation, by a lay person living overseas. But today's death was the second at Kirti within a week – another monk set fire to himself on Monday – and the seventh in Sichuan within two and a half years. "This is a new development … We are all struggling for the right words to characterise what is happening," said Kate Saunders of the International Campaign for Tibet.
In South Africa, meanwhile, controversy continues over the Dalai Lama's absence from Desmond Tutu's 80th birthday celebrations due to a visa "hiccup". From The Guardian:
The South African government's failure to grant an entry visa to the Dalai Lama has cast a pall over Tutu's birthday week, with the archbishop denouncing the governing African National Congress (ANC) as worse than the apartheid regime, and warning that he would pray for its defeat ….
The ANC has denied giving in to Chinese pressure over the Dalai Lama's visa, claiming it is still being processed and calling on Tutu to "calm down". When asked if the Dalai Lama would be granted a visa, Motlanthe reportedly said: "I don't see why it should be an issue at all …."
The Dalai Lama is set to deliver a peace lecture via videolink on Saturday. His absence in Cape Town will be symbolised by an empty chair.


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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A federal judge said on Monday that she is learning toward denying a government request to delay her order halting the military from enforcing its ban on openly gay troops.
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips said she would review the arguments from Justice Department lawyers and issue a ruling as early as Monday, or by Tuesday.
"My tentative ruling is to deny the application for a stay," Phillips said at the start of the hearing.
Phillips said the government has not proven that her order would harm troops or in any way impede efforts to implement new regulations for the military to deal with openly gay service members.
If she rejects the request, the Justice Department could move to appeal at what experts say are likely to be more friendly venues: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco and, ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrew a total of $1,200 from an ATM at a supermarket near his New York City apartment the night before he was found lifeless in his bathroom with a syringe still in his left arm, sources told NBC News.
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"The further the decision gets from the presentation of evidence in the trial court, the more likely it is that courts will assume the military must have some critically important interest at stake," said Diane Mazur, a law professor who opposes the policy.
The military has promised to abide by the injunction against the "don't ask, don't tell" policy as long as her order remained in place.
Government attorneys had asked Phillips for the temporarily halt while they appealed, saying that forcing an abrupt change of policy could damage troop morale at a time of war.
Phillips issued her landmark ruling on Sept. 9, declaring the policy unconstitutional. She said the policy violated due process rights, freedom of speech and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances guaranteed by the First Amendment.
At the time, she asked both sides to give her input about an injunction.
On Monday, Phillips called the government request "untimely," saying Justice Department lawyers had plenty of opportunity to modify her injunction before she ordered it on Oct. 12.
Phillips also said the government did not present evidence at the trial to show how her order would cause irreparable harm to troops.
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Justice Department attorney Paul Freeborne told her the government had no reason to respond until her order came down. He said her nationwide injunction was unrealistic.
"You're requiring the Department of Justice to implement a massive policy change, a policy change that may be reversed upon appeal," Freeborne told her.
Under the 1993 law, the military cannot inquire into service members' sexual orientation and punish them for it as long as they keep it to themselves. President Barack Obama has said he wants the law repealed in Congress.
The Log Cabin Republicans, the gay rights group, filed the lawsuit in 2004 to stop the ban's enforcement. The group says more than 13,500 service members have been fired under the Clinton administration-era policy.
Richard Socarides, a former Clinton White House adviser on gay rights, said he does not expect Phillips to grant the request.
"She seems to have lost her patience with the government's position and I think that's reflected in her ruling up until now," Socarides said. "But they will probably go to the appellate court or Supreme Court and you'll see in a couple of days that this order has been stayed."
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a Republican, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, the military's top uniformed officer, both say they support lifting the ban. But Gates and Mullen also have warned that they would prefer to move slowly.
Gates has ordered a sweeping study due Dec. 1 that includes a survey of troops and their families.
The president agreed to the Pentagon study but also worked with Democrats to write a bill that would have lifted the ban, pending completion of the Defense Department review and certification from the military that troop morale wouldn't suffer.
That legislation passed the House but was blocked in the Senate by Republicans.
Gay rights activists worry that expected Republican gains in the midterm elections next month could make it even more difficult to overturn the policy in Congress.
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I have a problem, and that problem is that I keep buying lipsticks that are basically the same color as each other. I have five lipsticks that are very similar brownish-rosy, "your lips but better" kind of shades. I don't even wear lipstick very often because my lips are drier than Moore County.
The lipsticks are:
- Marc Jacobs Beauty Le Marc Lip Crème in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"
- Bare Minerals Marvelous Moxie Lipstick in "Get Ready"
- Bite Beauty Luminous Crème Lipstick in "Pepper"
- MAC Cosmetics Satin Finish Lipstick in "Faux"
- Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in "Blushing Mauve"
(In my defense, those first two were samples.)
Here's some swatches. The light isn't great, because it's been raining all the time here lately, but you can see that they are all very closely related colors.
(Left to right, these are "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," "Get Ready," "Pepper," "Faux," and "Blushing Mauve.")
Let's not even get started on how many near-dupes of MAC's "Lady Danger" that I own (in addition Lady Danger herself).
I should probably do some sort of lipstick challenge to actually get some use out of all of these lipsticks. That's a very blogger thing to do, isn't it? If anyone has suggestions for what form that should take, let me know in the comments.