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Music

Dave Gravis -- latest stuff on myspace is best he has ever done.
Joel Weiskopf - Devoted To You -- very nice piano jazz ballads
Jon Mayer -- So Many Stars -- piano jazz with very nice ballads
Jethro Tull -- Best of Acoustic
John McLaughlin - 2 set best of "Essential"
Bruce Hornsby
Camp Meeting
Sony Legacy
2007

Arthur Bliss: Orchestral Study #3 Op 16
English Northern Philharmonia / David Lloyd-Jones
Naxos 553383

Christoph Gluck: Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood
Lisa Beznosiuk, flute
L'Oiseau-Lyre 410553

Camille Saint-Saens: Rhapsodie d'Auvergne Op 73
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Andre Previn
Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
EMI 49757

Ned Rorem
Leon Fleisher Plays
# 3 Barcarolles: No.1
# 3 Barcarolles: No.2
# 3 Barcarolles: No.3

Old and Lost Rivers
premiered by the Houston Symphony, conducted by Sergiu Comissiona, on May 10, 1986. The Houston Symphony commissioned Old and Lost Rivers as part of their 1986 Fanfare Project. The project was conceived by the composer, who was at that time the Symphony's Composer-in-Residence; twenty other composers participated.
http://www.tobiaspicker.com/recordings.html#5sacredtrees

Don Ross
http://www.gobyfish.com/Home.html
Extraordinary acoustic guitarist in league with Hedges
Passion Session 1999

Movies

• The Reader -- amazing
  
• Charley Wilson's War - especially funny being from Houston
  
• Revolver -- the most involving movie to date. A study of ego and how it affects us, and rules us. Watch a second time with dialogue playing and the commentary running. Some devastating moments.
  
• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead -- hard to watch since it shows an imploding family but very good.
  
• Fracture -- very good. Reminded me of Chinatown.
  
• Day of the Dog -- not very good.
  
• number 23 -- so so movie
  
• Black Snake Moan -- great movie with great blues but very upfront
  
• The Painted Veil -- romantic drama set in interior China. Ed Norton and Naomi Watts. Very good movie.
  
• Everything is Illuminated -- interesting movie that had me thinking about it for days afterwards. It has a tragicomic irony built into it (like Jean De Florette).
  
• Akeela and the Bee
  
• Christmas in the Clouds -- American Indians make movies too. This one has Graham Greene and Rita Coolidge in it. Terrific music at end.
  
• Illusionist -- interesting movie.
  
• Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - great movie
  
• Simon Birch
  
• The Way Home -- 2002 movie of the year in Korea. About a youngboy who has to live with his grandmother for awhile.