SR V: To boldly go where no room has gone before

Now, maybe it's just me, but I really think no amount of money is worth 150 years... I'm anticipating a ridiculous sentence.

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A crowd of spectators has arrived at a New York court to witness Bernard Madoff being sentenced for plotting a $50bn (£30.3bn) investment fraud. The disgraced financier, 71, who pleaded guilty to 11 charges in March, could face a sentence of 150 years.

Apparently he can't. 

Federer will win Wimbledon now.  Trust me.

Oooh, now for once in my life, I'll support Hewitt if he's playing Fedex next round.

If he's not, then I'd rather he got knocked out.

Edit: he'll player either Verdasco or Karlovich.


Edited by James - June 29 2009 at 09:13

Yep and if Murray gets to play Fedex in the final, then he'll lose.

Epignosis wrote: TGM: Orb wrote: One thought about Rudess, just came up as I was writing my Octavarium review. For such an accomplished and generally very fast keyboardist, he seems very prone to reverting to extremely simple piano parts whenever he wants to pull off an emotional effect or understated playing... seems odd to me. I rather like that about him, actually. By the way, I must admit that I have not mustered up the fortitude to read your behemoth of a review for that album...I feel like I could listen to it in the time it would take me to read it.

I don't mind it too much. He generally pulls it off. It just seems odd that he's clearly a very accomplished musician and arranger, and yet he seems to go into safe mode whenever 'emotion' is called for. One of the things I like a lot about players like Emerson, Brubeck, Jan Hammer, Banks and so forth is that they don't dumb down for the soft bits... it just seems a little odd to me that the generally supposed most technical keyboardist of his time is so conservative with pianos relative to his forebears.

Minimalistic pianos can be very good, that said, and hearing Wakeman playing Floyd's Nobody's Home was actually really impressive in that respect.

And yes, even I think my reviews are too long 

James, did you see the new VdGG - Live at the Paradiso at Wayside?  You can get it as a DVD or 2 CD set.

Padraic wrote: James, did you see the new VdGG - Live at the Paradiso at Wayside?  You can get it as a DVD or 2 CD set.

No.

Stop teasing me.

I think an order from Wayside is in order soon.

I also need the new Hammill.


Edited by James - June 29 2009 at 09:21

Padraic wrote: James, did you see the new VdGG - Live at the Paradiso at Wayside?  You can get it as a DVD or 2 CD set.

Woot!

James wrote: And Pat, you should know that I didn't know that... if I visit Wayside, I cannot help myself and end up ordering CDs. I avoid the place until I feel up for spending money.

It is rather difficult to resist.