Alexander Von Schlippenbach " Piano Solo 77 "

Just put this CD on my wanted list (=waiting for iTunes release).

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Ennio Morricone "Macchie Solari (aka Autopsy)" Original Soundtrack

Chilling giallo soundtrack work from Ennio Morricone -- music that features some very spooky vocal touches from I Cantori Moderni and Edda Dell'Orso! The starting theme is quite sweet, but the soundtrack quickly moves into starker, darker numbers that stand with some of Morricone's best horror work of the 70s -- music that's very artfully prepared, at a level that's much higher than the image on the screen, and which is key to setting its tension. There's no too-easy musical moments here -- and also less of the too-tense or atonal orchestrations that Morricone might use. And instead, the darkness comes almost from an inversion of the usual sweetness -- electric harpsichord played hard and heavy, or Edda Dell'Orso wheezing raspily instead of crooning dreamily! CD reissue features 22 tracks in all -- with titles that include "Sibili", "Con Voce Strozzata", "Macchie Solari", "Passagio Primo", "Preannuncio", "Sesso E Potere", and "Sul Filo".

This soundtrack is now available on iTunes.

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Simona Sana (Mimsy Farmer) is a young pathologist whom works in a morgue in Rome, Italy which gets with with a wave of violent suicides which are attributed to a summer heat wave. Driven to exhaustion from the intense heat and the long hours worked, Simona struggles to complete her college theses about natural deaths when one suicide victim is brought in the morgue in which a young Catholic priest named Paul Lenox (Barry Primus) who identifies the corpse as his sister, but that did not commit suicide, but was murdered and set up to look like a suicide. Simona teams up with Father Lenox to solve the mystery and stay one step ahead of a mysterious killer who now begins to stalk her when Simona gets a little too close to the truth of the suicides.

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Toshiko Akiyoshi Piano Trio 1958

Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500

Checking the Berlin concert calendar for January 2009 makes you think the wall is back: D.A.F. (7th), Click Click and Portion Control (10th)

Reading the news about Prince's upcoming three albums in 2009 made me want to see this amazing performance again: http://ping.fm/l1C3p

Super Bowl Halftime Show 2007 Prince

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VICE PICTURES by Ryan McGinley

Andaz West Hollywood

Sébastien Archambault has been appointed Executive Chef for the Andaz West Hollywood (the former Hyatt on Sunset) slated to reopen in January. He was previously the Chef de Cuisine at the Michelin One-Star restaurant on Corsica, Le Pirate.

More about the hotel and the restaurant in LA Times here.

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W Barcelona - Opening October 1, 2009

Silken Hotel Berlin

Spending the next two weeks in Berlin with two ballets, "The Nutcracker" and "Caravaggio", and Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 on New Year's Eve!