The Pope is alive! That's right. He's not quite dead yet.

[QUOTE=Sweboy]The Pope is alive! That's right. He's not quite dead yet.[/QUOTE]
No he's not **** it! I have already been declared the winner in The Death Pool for the Pope in the Pit! :angry:

He's still alive.

Last Updated: Friday, 1 April, 2005

Pope John Paul II Clings To Life

That's the BBC news site. So yes, he is still alive. Or at least, the Vatican have not officially announced his death yet.

[QUOTE=Wanker]The saddest death recently, IMO, is Mitch Hedberg's.[/QUOTE]
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I've never heard of Mitch Hedberg either.

I suck at keeping up with celebrity deaths.

He was a comedian. A d[size=2]a[/size]mn funny one at that. He always talked about how many drugs he did, so I wouldn't be suprised if he OD'd.

Hah.

'The best place to do acid is in the woods. Because there's less chance to run into an authority figure. We ran into a bear. That is an even bigger buzzkill. I start running away and I look back and my friend has his right hand raised and is swearing to prevent forest fires.'

The guy was hilarious. (it was mostly delivery too)

I didnt know who this Mitch Hedberg guy was until yesterday when I read his thread in the pit, he sounds f[i]u[/i]cking hilarious, I wish I'd heard of him before. The way his jokes have been written they remind me of Jimmy Carr but in story form, and funny.

"I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too."

I'm back.

Where'd you go?

New York City.

How was it? Bought some souvenirs?

It was a lot of fun. I didn't buy much in the way of souvenirs. I went with the high school band, and there was a lot of structure. I actually had hardly any time to shop at all.

What did you do with the band, though?

We went on tours of different tourist attractions and artsier places like Lincoln Center and the Guggenheim art museum. We saw two broadway shows, and we also played at the IBM Building in an atrium where folks were eating lunch.

Sounds good. How was the Guggenheim (and the shows, if you like)?

The Guggenheim was really great. There was this one Edvard Munch pastel work that I sat and just stared at for a while, really dug it.

I'm not into plays much. Which is part of the reason that I slept through most of both.

I don't believe Andrew Lloy Webber's music deserves to be printed anywhere. It's a tremendous waste of ink and paper, and I think we'd all be better off if all scores and individual sheets were eliminated.

Your avatar looks like Malcolm X if he were a grandmother. Who is it really?

Andrew Hill.

I got his [I]Black Fire[/I] album in NYC, and it's outstanding.

He's an avant-garde jazz pianist. One of essentially two players to share that instrument and stylistic preference.

New York is a great place.

The jig is up, I just love having pictures of black guys with glasses underneath my user title.

[QUOTE=Zappa]He's an avant-garde jazz pianist. One of essentially two players to share that instrument and stylistic preference.[/QUOTE]

The other being?

I wish I could go there sometime. I'm kind of a city guy myself.

Cecil Taylor.

Of course people have emerged all over the place to play avant-garde piano. But when the avant garde and free jazz was just developing back in the late 50s and early 60s, they were basically the only ones to forge ahead on the keys. At that point, it was pretty common for their peers to shun the instrument entirely in favor of a more harmonically flexible trio or quartet.

You know too much about jazz :(

I just know what I've read. I can usually understand anything I read in liner notes and internet stuff. My problem, I bring almost no original thought to my analyses of jazz music, so I'm basically just regurgitating sh[color=white]it[/color].