I'm trying to complete the long late task of getting Virtual PC Windows XP on the new G4 Wireless talking (I got it running last night...hoo ray) wirelessly to this here Win2K old faithful machine and to the greater world of the INet. And talking to work, to boot (where it is supposed to really come handying seeing that's my current work desktop). But the first task was to boot Win2K and get my personal broadcasting network (hehe...Radio UserLand) up...before retreating to the upper reaches of Casa Chaos to finish the VPPXPWIN2KINET chore. Maybe then I can play. Maybe write some use cases. Or provide linkage Honorarium linkage to Nina Simone audio on NPR and Honorarium Bloggage by Blogcritics. On NPR Morning Edition, I heard the Ashley Kahn piece and thought it was pretty good. Love "Mississippi Goddamn". Wonder if Ashley'd like to do a little more stretched out piece with 2 or 3 tunes...and a couple of questions from this lowly TNJT reporter. I've never been able to find his email address though. Again I get distracted.

One more...on the Blogcritics front, I'm so psyched to see the most killer Music: Jazz postings coming out of there, especially tasting looking and hopefully dedicated-post worthy bits on Bill Frisell and this gaunlet throw down climax by Tom Johnson on The Bad Plus,

"It is too easy to replicate the past when it has become the institution that jazz has become. To break free and incorporate new elements, or even to simplify . . . that is the heart of jazz. If jazz is about being experimental, is it really jazz anymore when you don't?"

Amen! Can't wait to read them in their entirety. And isn't Tom Johnson that killer ex-lead singer and founder of the Doobie Brothers. Love your early stuff man...you country road rock and roll! "Steamer Lane Breakdown" blaring out the car windows into the dead-of-night warm wind heading to Hualapi Hilltop for the hike to the Indian village and beyond. Oh...that's Tom Johnston (but he's got some Johnson in him too). Our Tom Johnson is a thoughtful Jazz reviewer, with some willy musical tricks (and CDs) up his sleave and hopefully soon to be revealed,

"A review to me tells me the story of the album that I bought. I review something if I feel like it spoke something special to me or set in motion a particular thought process. It's unpredictable. Some albums, for one unknown-to-me reason or another, spark something. Once set in motion I follow through. So I know that in coming days there will be a review of Dave Douglas's amazing new album Freak In and John Zorn's second (of ten) tributes to his amazing Jewish-Jazz group, Masada (the recently released two-disc set Voices In The Wilderness with contributions from everyone who apparently has ever said "hi" to Zorn - including Mike Patton, Medeski Martin & Wood, Steve Bernstein, Tin Hat Trio, Zony Mash, and about a million other groups I've never heard of, but am very intrigued by due to their contributions.)"

Yo Tom, rock on! Be assured that blog-timely Jazz reviews, posted to the Blogcritics RSS Feed will get in front of my news aggregatin' face. And material for TNJT Live will be surfaced. And other connections (besides Tom Johnston), like how I spent New Years Eve 2003 listening to Tom Griesgraber play his Chapman Stick and how I have best of friends living in Chandler, AZ. Tom, where's your RSS Feed?

One more distraction...I wonder if John Malkovich would tell us, on the show this Thursday, why Nina was his choice for such an important role in his directorial debut "The Dancer Upstairs",

"He begins the film with a dark and expansive landscape accompanied by the soulful words of Nina Simone's "Who Knows Where the Time Goes." The haunting atmosphere, initiated early on, creates an unhurried pace that supports, but does not intrude upon or dictate, the rest of the film." (Tufts Daily)

(How do you get in touch with John Malkovich when he doesn't have a website?)

Or why Andrew Serwer, editor-at-large at Fortune, today included a Nina RIP blue-note in his Streetlife column. What impact was so great to warrant a nod in Andrew's business column? Nina definitely was of the street, poundin' the pavement with a message. God Damn!

Back to the technical issues (at this late hour totally dimming in any humor it gave at the time...superceded by most jazzy detours above)...

So as I'm watching Win2K reboot, I open up G4 to see if it's connected and if so, find try to connect somewhere to read something, can't just breathe for a second...must consume information. I open the new Mac browser, Safari (I'm using it and IEsomething), and it's still got Apple.com as the default home page (just noticed...that page looks different for a Mac user than a Win user...curious). I notice the little AOL Instant Messenger dude in a top navigation bar and not having had any luck using my AOL account with iChat (the Mac Chat client), I follow that and onto to an AIM download, install, and sign-on. Same problem. But a more prominent nudge...the one I needed...to the Forget Password page...which leads to an email...and to the AIM password...not the same as my AOL password...oh...because my AIM account was a Netscape AIM account originally and doesn't use the same password. How wierd. Anyway, it led to AIM successful sign-on. Back in the chat game.

Which led back over to iChat. Remember, on the same G4 machine. And to instant population of that with my AIM Buddy List. And to chating with Teri and Dave and subjecting them to a round-robin login-disconnection loop as I switched between chat clients on the G4 and Win2K, as machines booted up and automatically logged on and other such stuff. Well before chat looping again, I did get a chance to share the Blogcritics Radio latest treat Shannon Campbell with her in a favorite TNJT chat ploy, the audio link,

"OutlawV: Want to listen to something? OutlawV: http://www.blogcritics.com/mp3s/andromeda.php?q=p&p=%2FShannonCampbell
OutlawV: That was the tunes. Here's the info: http://www.blogcritics.com/mp3s/andromeda.php?q=f&f=%2FShannonCampbell
OutlawV: I'm switching again...something new...sort of..."

I could tell I had taken the leap-chat a bit far when closely followed by her signoff message, she sent "A lot of technical issues tonight." Yep. And now a lot of time issues. Blogidiction.

I guess it's time to give someone else a chance to solo. Wasn't it Miles that told 'Trane that to stop soloing, you "just take the horn out of your mouth". Take the keyboard out of my mouth. Wait.

Keep improvising...VO

P.S. The downfall tonight (and the glory) was turning on the Personal Broadcasting Network. Night Night.
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