Buffalo Bill's Brewery - Orange Blossom Cream Ale

Seasonal Ale Made with Honey, Orange Peel, and Natural Flavor, with Orange Flower Extract Added

Hancock, Shorter, Carter, Roney, Williams - a Tribute to Miles (1994)

1. So What (live) (10:06)
2. RJ (4:05)
3. Little One (7:16)
4. Pinocchio (5:41)
5. Elegy (8:43)
6. Eighty One (7:29)
7. All Blues (live) (15:17)

Live tracks #1 & 7 recorded at Berkeley Community Theatre, September 19, 1992


Herbie Hancock - piano
Wayne Shorter - tenor & soprano saxophones
Ron Carter - bass
Wallace Roney - trumpet
Tony Williams - drums

"No Line on the Horizon" B-side version

The new UK single for U2's Get on your boots features a "B-side version" of the new album's title track No Line on the Horizon.

Donald Westlake - The Cutie (1960)

Just got the latest Hard Case Crime novel, which is Donald E. Westlake's The Cutie. This is actually the first book I've gotten since I joined up with Hard Case that I've actually read before. What is interesting is I've actually read this book twice before- of course, the edition I've read was published under the original published title, The Mercenaries. Being that I've already read this one (twice,) I've decided to read the first of Westlake's "Tucker Coe" novels instead. I'll probably get around to read this one a third time eventually as well, but I'm going to pass on it for now.... and maybe give it to a friend to read in the meantime!

Nicholas Pileggi - Wiseguy (1986)

If you enjoyed Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990) as much as I did, you will probably also enjoy the book Wiseguy, that the movie is based on. The book was written some time after Henry Hill entered the Witness Protection Program, and is based on Henry's meetings with journalist Nicholas Pileggi. Nicholas also wrote books that have become the basis for other Scorsese films, including Casino. After reading the book, I couldn't help but look up to get an update on Henry Hill from wikipedia, and have found that his life after the mafia has so far prove to be just as interesting. I had already known that he has been a regular call-in guest to the Howard Stern program, but he has also no longer in the witness protection program. He has since been busted for drugs (you can find his mugshots on smokinggun.com,) but has been divorced from his wife, has opened another restaurant in 2007, and is planning on getting married this year. Maybe there will be a sequel someday, my life in and out of the witness protection program? I guess there has been some TV documentaries made focussing on his post-Goodfellas days.

New album from the Meat Puppets!

The new album, entitled Sewn Together, will be released by Megaforce on March 12th.

Borah Bergman Trio - Luminescence (2009)

tracklist:
1.Quantum
2.Candela
3.Parallax
4.Scattering
5.Luma
6.Opacity

Personnel:
Borah Bergman: Piano
Greg Cohen: Bass
Kenny Wollesen: Drums
John Zorn: Sax (guests on one track)