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Music Box

Sept 1-28: Viva Pedro, a series of Almodovar
Sept 16-17: Network
Sept 22-23, 29-30: The Monkees' Head
Sept 30-Oct 1: A Woman Under the Influence
Oct 13-15: Pandora's Box
Oct 15-19: The Films of Terry Gilliam
Oct 20-21, 28-29: Plan 9 from Outer Space
Oct 28-29: Faust
Nov 24-25: Mary Poppins costume contest

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Pluto, we hardly knew ye

yay or nay

FALLING DEEP VOL. 4 IS HERE

Yes, it is finished. And may I say with some confidence that you will find it to be an uplifting, beautiful, fulfilling emotional journey. Love it, cherish it, smile and cry with it.

I sincerely hope you get as much love out of it as I've put into it.

I have a very long history with most of these songs, they've been constant friends. I hope they become yours.

It will be mailed to all the usual suspects over the next three days

The long awaited track list...

FALLING DEEP VOL. 4
Disc One- Songs For Lovers

Uptown- The Crystals
Young Love- Tab Hunter
Walking In The Rain- The Ronettes
Easier Said Than Done- Essex
He’s A Rebel- The Crystals
Great Big Kiss- The Shangri-Las
I’ve Told Every Little Star- Linda Scott
Could This Be Magic?- The Dubs
The Way You Look Tonight- The Jaguars
I Only Have Eyes For You- The Flamingos
Oh, What A Night- The Dells
I Found A Love- Wilson Pickett
River Deep, Mountain High- Ike & Tina
Angel Baby- Rosie & The Originals
Sleepwalk- Santo & Johnny
Pledging My Love- Johnny Ace
Since I Met You Baby- Ivory Joe Hunter
Heaven & Paradise- Don Julian & The Meadowlarks
Over The Mountain- Johnny & Joe
It’s All In The Game- Tommy Edwards
The Plea- The Chantels
You Belong To Me- The Duprees
Our Day Will Come- Ruby & The Romantics
Listen To Me- Buddy Holly
A Thousand Years- Kathy Young
Come Softly To Me- The Fleetwoods
Oh Julie- The Crescendos
Heaven Only Knows- The Shangri-Las
Stardust- Hoagy Carmichael


FALLING DEEP VOL. 4
Disc Two- Songs For The Broken-Hearted

Out In The Streets- The Shangri-Las
Never Let Me Go- Johnny Ace
Will You Love Me Tomorrow?- The Shirelles
Too Hurt To Cry, Too Much In Love To Say Goodbye- The Darnells
Cathy’s Clown- The Everly Brothers
Bye Bye Baby- Mary Wells
So Long Baby- Dell Shannon
It’s Only Make Believe- Conway Twitty
Maybe- The Chantels
It Should Have Been Me- Kim Weston
You Deserve What You Got- Eddie Holland
There Goes My Baby- The Drifters
Tears On My Pillow- Little Anthony & The Imperials
Pains In My Heart- The Dells
Since I Don’t Have You- The Skyliners
It’s Just A Matter Of Time- Brook Benton
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes- The Platters
Since I Fell For You- Lenny Welch
Here Am I, Broken-Hearted- Johnnie Ray
He’ll Have To Go- Jim Reeves
In The Middle Of It All- Arthur Alexander
Who’s Lovin’ You?- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
All I Could Do Is Cry- Etta James
I Cried A Tear- LaVern Baker
Dreams Of Contentment- The Dells
Mr. Blue- The Fleetwoods
Cry- Johnnie Ray
Learning The Game- Buddy Holly
Past, Present, Future- The Shangri-Las

Strictly Temporary

In some ways, this is an entirely irrelevant post, but I just want to express how hard Ive been working on Falling Deep 4. I've got the Songs For The Broken-Hearted more or less finalzed (one more track to uplaod), and all I have to do is put them in order. It was whittled down from around 3 hours of songs. I managed to find and download EVERY SINGLE SONG I have on vinyl and was unable to make digitial. I have been most persistent.

Songs for Lovers is more arduous, as it stands I have to cut out 20 minutes, and I have no idea where to start. This was cut down from 3 and 1/2 hours of music. But at least I can see the end of the tunnel.

I was going to rush and have them done this morning (mainly so I could get them to people at work so they could listen on their drive home), but Im taking the weekend to really make the sequence perfect.

I listened to every song at least twice yesterday and in a very rough order, and I have to say I think these discs are really going to be amazing. What I want is for people to either copulate or get pretty vlose at least during the first disc and for the 2nd disc, plain and simple I want them to cry. And I honestly think that will be achieved. This collection is pretty fucking intense.

So yeah, thats it.

THE LONG AWAITED SKEATER-KINNEY PORTLAND POST!!!

Yeah, good times. Pretty great. Good tunes.

One Man's Opinion Is Of Course Always Correct

Last night, Liz & I watched an appalling program on ESPN. It's called "Who's #1" and in this episode they ranked the Top 20 Boxers of all time. They were drastically wrong of course, so here is my enlightened and fair list...

1. Muhammad Ali- Faster than Robinson, stronger than Louis, craftier than Moore. He not only climbed the mountain, he stayed there.

2. "Sugar" Ray Robinson- Words simply cannot describe the artistic brilliance, physical perfection and heights of achievement this man rose to. Miles Davis in boxing gloves.

3. Archie Moore- Proof that no matter how dire the circumstances a man can always rise above. Archie won 194 (thank about it, 194) fights, and did not win his first title until he was 39. He held it for 8 years. Posessed an all encomapssing intellect. A man who was simply beyond the beyond.

4. John L. Sullivan- The first Heavyweight Champion, and the man who created the template for the modern fighter.

5. Joe Louis- Yes, certainly a deserving American icon. What counts though, is he cleaned out the division more comprehensively than anyone before or since, knocked out almost all his competition, held the title longer than anyone in any weight division (11 years), and had more defenses of said title than anyone in any division (26).

6. Henry Armstrong- Held 3 titles simultaneously. No one else has ever come close.

7. Julio Cesar Chavez- The model of the ultimate Mexican fighter. Won his first 87 fights.

8. Bob Fitzsimmons- All modern fighters owe their careers and vision to this man. Quite possibly the most underrated and revolutionary fighter to ever live.

9. Dick Tiger- Fierce, passionate and fascinating. A tribute to the strength of the will.

10. Willie Pep- A master of fistic brilliance, an amazing combination of power, speed and mental gymnastics.

11. George Foreman- Destroyed everyone up until Ali. Re-won title at 45, 20 years later. It speaks for itself.

12. Jack Johnson- What Frederick Douglas was to slavery, Jack Johnson was to boxing. A man who's mental gifts fed into his reinvention of all known boxing strategies.

13. "Sugar" Ray Leonard- Quite simply a genius, and easily a true master of his craft. The man beat every major fighter of his time, in an endless variety of styles, all topped off with his boundless charisma.

14. Gene Tunney- A massive step on the evolutionary chart of the Heavyweights. The first to combine fluid motion with precise punching combinations, this seriously underrated man not only carried his title with dignity, but paved the way for Ali.

15. Marvin Hagler- The human melting point between aesthetic perfection and intuitive inspiration. A man of greatness who fought with every molecule of his Self.

16. Roberto Duran- "Hands Of Stone", never has a fighter had a more fitting nickname. An indomitable spirit who's stamina allowed him to fight for decades.

17. Carlos Monzon- Exclude for a moment Monzon's obvious demons. Focus on where he shined as a human, and very few shined brighter. A Middleweight of incredible gifts and stamina as evidenced by his 14 title defences.

18. Jack Dempsey- A true legend, a truly incredible fighter. The man who blasted through conventions are invented himself as a fierce individual with the ability to make grown men fearful. His fight with Luis Firpo alone justifies his greatness. Had as many as 125 unrecorded knockouts.

19. Bernard Hopkins- A man of eternal inner strength and reserve. A man who refused to be compromised by the business and politics of his time. A man who's craft improved and deepened the longer he fought. A man who's discipline never wavered. Without any doubt, the best fighter of his generation.

20. Ezzard Charles- The single most overlooked and undervalued Heavyweight Champion, ever. It's simple, he was one of the greatest Light Heavyweights ever, and once he became Heavyweight, reigned at the very top his division fighting glorious bouts with Jersey Joe Walcott. Ezzard was an entirely new breed of fighter, who made angles, understood every nuance of the ring and fought with is mind as much as his fists.

The Next Ten (because 20 is Way too few)
21. Tony Zale
22. Stanley Ketchel
23. Bob Foster
24. Lennox Lewis
25. Sandy Saddler
26. Larry Holmes
27. Jose Torres
28. Rocky Marciano
29. Kid Gavilan
30. Carmen Basilio

27 Honorable Mentions And/Or Personal Favorites

Harry Wills
Ron Lyle
Earnie Shavers
Beau Jack
Jake LaMotta
Aaron Pryor
Rocky Graziano
Joe Frazier
Roy Jones Jr.
Arturo Gatti
Klondike
Luis Firpo
Roland La Starza
Ray Mercer
Thomas Hearns
Dwight Qawi
Marco Antonio Barerra
Michael Spinks
Jack Root
Billy Conn
Primo Carnera
Sonny Liston
Winky Wright
Gene Fullmer
Wilfred Benitez
James Toney
Joey Maxim

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"my mother told us always
capitalize the names of
elders or authorities, later she
suffered from outside dizziness. -hello

peridot, azarite, Rhodonite, Lapis Lazuli, pearl, Opal, pyroxene: refractive index.
headhearted injurers tap the front famously declaring the face.

I came running out of this building through a revolving door and instantly thrown at the sidewalk by some harsh figure I came to helpless twirls. someone dropped a glass and stared. I really love this I really really love this, illuminations are Atomic Bombs, scraped palms.

this force knodded yelled and ran I understand, goodbye. The_e is a certain element missing and I was instructed to watch the sky on the evening of saturday, august 12. Have you ever known what it is? Where do you take it from?

no more record breakers/indian dinner adventures anymore

well, at least not for long.

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