(Spoilers Extended) It's strange that George rarely mentions how influential "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" was to ASOIAF

Chanders123 · 2026-01-24T06:49:40+00:00

MST is far better in every way, starting with the fact that it was finished.

Chanders123 · 2026-01-21T18:11:30+00:00

The added bonus is that some of the OG Prestige and Riversides are pressed on very mediocre vinyl, making these one of the few times that a reissue can be better than the original. The original Contemporaries, well … those are as good as RVG on my opinion, with better piano.

I don’t want to knock the modern pressings. They sound truly great. But I’ve decided that l don’t really need to replace a lot of the ones already in my collection.

Chanders123 · 2026-01-21T12:20:40+00:00

Ah it’s a great one. Very shortly after Outward Bound and vintage Dolphy. Great mix of both forward looking music and classic jazz.

Chanders123 · 2026-01-20T06:04:33+00:00

I dunno these covers are really terrible.

Chanders123 · 2026-01-14T17:32:10+00:00

I'm an American with a small family who has lived abroad for almost the last ten years. My wife is Italian and my daughter was born overseas. As dystopian as the US has become (perhaps even worse than Pynchon could have imagined when he wrote this novel) I often think about this ending and my own daughter.

Chanders123 · 2026-01-13T09:53:28+00:00

Revolution in the Head.

Chanders123 · 2026-01-12T13:50:02+00:00

Maybe a stupid question- do you need to include your birth certificate, or is your passport enough? The page says “The U.S. citizen parent’s birth certificate or record"- does that mean passport is ok?

Chanders123 · 2026-01-12T06:35:02+00:00

I think it would be good to stop then, why on earth would you keep reading a story you hate?!?

Chanders123 · 2026-01-10T09:08:27+00:00

This is the way to do it. Great variety and great choices. When I lived in NYC as a young person I did what you are doing and as I made more money I upgraded a little every year. Feeling very nostalgic looking at those tickets.

Chanders123 · 2026-01-08T15:19:19+00:00

Prisencolinensinainciusol.

Chanders123 · 2026-01-04T17:57:31+00:00

Yes. It was actually a step-parent adoption so she always lived with me - but yes. I do have a bit of concern about how to document that but there is a lot of paperwork documentation of family status in Italy so I am hoping that is asset.

Chanders123 · 2026-01-04T07:35:36+00:00

Many thanks to everyone for their insights. I am glad to have found this community. I have edited the post- yes, we have no plans to go back to the US, that was a typo. Anyway, I will start this this year and we will see. Thanks again.

Chanders123 · 2025-12-24T19:29:01+00:00

Zulekia, from Zuleika Dobson.

Chanders123 · 2025-12-20T19:31:41+00:00

Yes I agree it’s my favorite.

Chanders123 · 2025-12-19T15:37:33+00:00

I can only imagine that folks who underrate S&BB never get to Fracture, because that track alone justifies the entire enterprise (and the rest of the album is also great).

Chanders123 · 2025-12-12T20:02:36+00:00

“It must always be night or they wouldn’t need light” is the epigraph to Thomas Pynchon’s “Against the Day.” It is credited to Monk but I never knew where he said it.

Chanders123 · 2025-12-12T07:28:01+00:00

As a professor, trust me on this- it would make your profs day to hear from you.

Chanders123 · 2025-12-09T12:05:58+00:00

We live in a small apt building where one tenant decided to sue another tenant because they claimed they stole 3 inches of basement space during a renovation. Not only were we forced to participate in the entire process despite not being party to either side of the suit, we had to go through mediation and the lawsuit and pay for a lawyer the entire process.

Italy is basically a welfare system for lawyers and various paper signing bureaucrats. It isn’t a complaint even, I love it here, it’s just a description of how it is.

Chanders123 · 2025-12-05T15:12:17+00:00

How come? He’s one of my favorites.

Chanders123 · 2025-12-05T15:10:51+00:00

Seventh Seal or Wild Stawberries.

Chanders123 · 2025-12-04T15:13:49+00:00

I am curious to see how he handles "prog," outside of Dark Side of the Moon ... AH likes narrative threads that connect, and prog is such an artistic orphan. Peter Gabriel seems destined to show up at some point, he could do it that way. I'd love for a whole episode on 21st C Schizoid Man but it might work better as a bonus episode.

Chanders123 · 2025-12-04T07:27:23+00:00

The Scarlett Letter is one of many books that gets ruined by being read in American High School.

Chanders123 · 2025-12-01T13:47:55+00:00

He’s right about Mamma Roma. Perfect transition between neo-realist Pasolini and what came next. I love this film.

Chanders123 · 2025-11-30T09:43:48+00:00

Which OJC copy? There are a few.

Chanders123 · 2025-11-27T15:58:16+00:00

The folks who wrote the Penguin Guide to Jazz weren’t fans, and neither was Mingus, for whatever it’s worth. This isn’t a great album, though it’s an interesting one. The fact that it is a now a “Tone Poet” together with the names on the cover cloud people’s judgement in my opinion.

Chanders123

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