WARNING: Publication of this list of illegally downloaded music may make you an accessory to an imaginary crime with heinous consequences (if you are an unwed Native American mom or a Jewish college student).

Brooklyn – Hauschka
Crocodiles Don’t Lie – Steve Beresford
Still – Karl Berger
Thiaroye – Baaba Maal
Feqer Bequmena – Essatu Tessema
Got Any Kids? – Kool Keith
We’re So Happy – Medeski Martin & Wood
Avelut – John Zorn
OPEN AIR (For Tommy) – World Saxophone Quartet
The Right Track – Phllis Dillon
and bonus cut Type A To E from Hiro Tsunoda.

Cannot in good conscience contribute this time around, having no clue what “record” stores are like nowadays.

Once upon a time I thought living in the future would mean having very cheap access to every song ever recorded whenever I wanted.

I failed to understand that the future would be about making sure fat old men who don’t know a Fender guitar from an upright bass would continue to be the sole financial beneficiaries of music recorded 70 years ago, music the original artists stopped being paid for about 69 years, 11 months and 29 days ago.

I feel bad for the indie stores, of which maybe two or three in each state have survived (usually by reselling CDs which is different from selling used .mp3s in ways only lawyers can explain).

On Apple since 1990 and have never heard of anything like this. Jay in Oregon sounds like he has the best answer. It could also be a browser virus, which is the only kind of virus I’ve ever gotten on my Mac.

Try a few used book stores if you still have any in your area. These books are not scarce, and their lack of value keeps them from being listed online (creating the appearance of scarcity which some dealers rely on to get inflated prices).

Also, Amazon lists 21-volume sets for $40 and up. Yes, you can spend $750 at Amazon for the same set, but again, there will always be sellers with high prices. These books have always been sold at cheap prices because they’re not collector’s editions, they’re simply sets of books for which the publisher didn’t have to pay any royalties.

Most important? Every work mentioned can be downloaded for free from the Guttenberg Project. The Black series books are small print, thin paper and while I loved them when I was young, I’d rather read those books on a Kindle now.

$24 for a 20-volume set of Black’s Reader Service Company “The Works of…” books.

I knew there was a reason why I still had mine.

Fox can’t comment on something until someone reports on it first, and since Fox doesn’t really “do” reporting they get very testy when the other networks fail to research a news story for them.

105 FM Jam – De-Phazz
Spineless Jelly – Future Sound of London
Trapped (Hell Interface mix) – Boards of Canada
I Love You For Sentimental Reasons – Fred Buccini
Pleasure As Usual – Tortoise & The Ex
Feel Free – Mozez
Too Young – Nat King Cole
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme – Yo-Yo Ma
Iron Man – John Surman
Most Holy Mother of God – Jan Garbarket
Bonus: I Can’t Be Alone – Sonny Boy Williamson II

I’ll Always Love You – The Mad Lads
Diana – Wayne Shorter
The Squirrel – Miles Davis
Both When I Am Alone & When We… – Four Tet
Oily LIghtning – Jazzfinger
You’ve Been Chose – Propositions
Ikoyi Mentality Vs Mushin Mentality – Fela Kuti
You’ve Changed – Sarah Vaughan
My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms – The Mills Brothers
Khili Re – A.R. Rahman

My last email address for you seems to have expired a long time ago, but I can help with the Pizzicato 5 if you email me at mark.gisleson@gmail.com

Using Antony and the Johnson’s “I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy as a launching point, iTunes mixed this:

I’m Blue – The Ikettes
Highlife – Mono
Hold On, Help Is On The Way – G. Davis & R. Tyler
Archie’s Funeral – Ry Cooder
What Would – Soldiers of Jah Army
In The Ghetto (alt take 4) – Elvis Presley
Uncle Albert – John Lennon
Stans Soluble Fish – Animals on Wheels
Show – Patricia Barber
Solitude – Duke Ellington

I’d settle for just one post like this a week. I’d whine and would want more, but I would settle for this. Gladly.

Random “food” mix:

Food Stamps – 24 Carat Black
Tapplin – Trim (from Soulfood Vol. 4)
Cat Food – Crimson Jazz Trio
Sentinel (Lunar Defense) – DJ Food
A Prayer Before Tea – Food
Power of Kung Food (remix) – Seatbelts & DJ Food
Devil’s Food – Patricia Barber
Sea-Food – Wang Changcun
Twix – Trim
Food for My Soul – The Dragons
and My Name in Food from The Voodoo Trombone Quartet

Shit, there go all my weekend plans. I may have to go out and find a life now.

The arbitrary feature changes on the new iTunes do suck, but it’s handling large databases much better than before. I’ve pirated painstakingly collected a library of over 100,000 songs, and it handles the workload pretty well. But still no iTunes DJ so I used Tom Waits as my jumping off point to create a random list:

Jeepers Creepers (take 2) – Django Reinhardt
Ouaga Saga – Mokhtar Samba
Nandarou – Studio Ghibli
Key to the Highway – John Lee Hooker
Love for Sale – Cannonball Adderley
Don’t Take It Out – The Funky Muchachos
Resignation – Brad Mehldau
Rose Room – Sidney Bechet
Night and Day – Ella Fitzgerald
Levi’s commercial – Jefferson Airplane
and Alpha et Omega by Hermas Zopoula (no, I never heard of him before either but there he was on iTunes staring back at me)

New iTunes won’t let you generate a random ten without first giving it a song to start with, so I searched for Robert Palmer and these are the next ten songs that came up:

Piensa En Mi – Duo Pérez Rodriguez
These Times – Ernest Ranglin
I Wish I Were Twins – Coleman Hawkins
Les Nuits – Nightmares On Wax
Joe Cool (instrumental) – Vince Guaraldi
Hysterical Strength – St. Vincent
Electrorloge – Troublemakers
El Evangelio – Wganda Kenya
Mommy Daddy You And I – Talking Heads
Story of Mr. Paul – King Radio
and Team Clermont from Momus and no, none of these songs reminded me much of Robert Palmer although I do miss the old button configuration which Apple changed on the new iTunes because, well, I guess because they could, Apple now vying to become the new Microsoft.

When I got started in politics in the ’70s in Des Moines, the south side was heavily Italian and Latino and the two groups got along famously. Within class lines, I don’t think Latinos have been treated differently than other new white immigrant groups in much of the U.S.

But the Republicans overplayed their hand, and it will take at least ten years for them to regain credibility with the groups they were trashing just a few weeks ago. It also doesn’t hurt to remember that the most pro-Republican Latino tribe, the Cubans, are widely disliked by many in the bewilderingly complex world of Latino American politics.

And I’m assuming Obama will somehow bring himself to reduce income inequality. If not, almost every group will be up for grabs if the Republicans start handing out benefits and entitlements like campaign literature.

Tirara – Group Doueh
The Great Pretender – Jimmy Parkinson
Fullsuvollivus (Fools of All of Us) – Keith Jarrett
No Path Back – Byeongwoo Lee
Small Eddy – BBC Sound Effects
Last Christmas – Berk & The Virtual Band
One for My Baby – Frank Sinatra
Asiko Mi Ni – The Nigerian Police Force Band
Danza de la Molinera – Paco de Lucia
Walkin’ Thru the Park – Muddy Waters
Non-cheating bonus: Bill Monroe’s New Muleskinner Blues (because when you don’t cheat, bluegrass happens)

I deeply appreciate Wills putting Goldwater into the proper context. As a true conservative, he outgrew much of what the left objected to about his presidential campaign. By the ’80s he was routinely vilified by the new, profoundly unconservative Southern-fried right. He didn’t become an elder statesman for the simple reason that the Republicans stopped being real conservatives and didn’t want him speaking truth to demogogues.

There’s nothing wrong with conservatism. The GOP should check it out.