Appalachian Stomp is an ideal starter disc for those just beginning to explore bluegrass. Mostly this is because its 18 selections are so immediately accessible. The “classics” here, in other words, are usually those infrequent bluegrass cuts to have gained radio recognition beyond a core bluegrass audience. That explains why along with timeless standards such as Flatt & Scruggs’ “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” and the Osborne Brothers’ “Rocky Top” we also get “Dueling Banjos” from the film Deliverance, a cut that is to classic bluegrass what Walter Murphy is to Beethoven. There are less immediately obvious choices too, though. If your previous exposure to bluegrass doesn’t go beyond the Holy Trinity of Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, and the Stanley Brothers–for example, if you’ve never heard J.D. Crowe & the New South’s stellar example of progressive bluegrass, “Old Home Place,” or experienced Jimmy Martin lay down the law on his rousing “You Don’t Know My Mind”–then you’re in for a high-lonesome surprise. –David Cantwell Customer Review: Bluegrass music It’s the best ‘Bluegrass’ CD that I’ve heard in quite a while…I would suggest it to anyone who loves Bluegrass!!!

Sheep Farming in Barnet
Toyah’s First Two Albums, Now Available on One CD. Customer Review: The (Real) Best of Toyah In One Place!!! Before Toyah wrote a bunch of top ten songs for the early 80s U.K. market (It’s a Mystery, Good Morning Universe, I Want to be Free, etc.), she stuck with edgier, harder, warped sci-fi /impending doom / paranoid / fantasy themes. Call it alternative new-wave — and it broke new ground without the total nihilism of punk. The two Toyah albums that most epitomize this trend are Sheep Farming in Barnet and Blue Meaning. I believe the albums represent Toyah at her most introspective, commenting on the failures of England and its social structures to create a bright future for its people. Neon Womb and Victims of the Riddle (on Barnet) sadly reflect on the desanctification of life. Spaced Walking, Ghosts, Mummies (on Blue Meaning) reflect different aspects of detachment. Ieya also calls out to gods/goddesses to save us from, well, most likely ourselves. Insects completes the death cycle, literally recycling us back while we’re in the ground. Good Grief! So, what is the music like? Imagine the Talking Heads meets Trent Reznor of NIN meets Blondie at a Trekkers Con. One could say this is conventional rock with a goth bent — You’ll just have to get some music samples. Just note there’s hardly any top-ten bubblegummy stuff here. This is not light music and bears repeated listenings. Closest matches in style: Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich. If you like this album, please search out my other favourite Toyah “The Changeling” which is brilliant in its own way.

JOHN DEERE UTENSIL CADDY
John Deere Tool/Utensil/Napkin Caddy - Just a nice quality piece… galvanized steel, can be used for a zillion different things, and is a licensed John Deere product. Measures 8-1/4 x 5 x 7.5″H

Secret Garden
Filmed before (and quite nicely) in 1949, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic children’s story was remade for this admirable 1993 release, executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by acclaimed Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland. Splendidly adapted by Edward Scissorhands screenwriter Caroline Thompson, the film opens in India during the early 1900s, when young Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly) is orphaned and sent to England to live in Misselthwaite Manor, the gloomy estate of her brooding and melancholy uncle, Lord Craven (John Lynch). Because the uncle is almost always away on travels, struggling to forget the death of his beloved wife, Mary is left mostly alone to explore the estate. Eventually she befriends the young brother of a staff maid and Lord Craven’s apparently crippled son, who has been needlessly bedridden for years. Together the three children restore a neglected garden on the estate grounds, and in doing so they set the stage for a moving reaffirmation of life and love. Filmed with graceful style and careful attention to the intelligence and cleverness of young children, The Secret Garden is that rarest breed of family film that transcends its own generic category, encouraging a sense of wonder and optimism to become a rewarding experience for viewers of any age. –Jeff Shannon Customer Review: SECRET GARDEN I RECEIVED MY DVD QUICKLY AND VERY GOOD CONDITION I WILL KEEP ORDERING AS USUAL.

Fashion Nugget
The twisted cover of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” is a statement of intent, while the cool jazz riffs from the band’s trumpet player are part of what makes tracks like “Daria,” “It’s Coming Down,” and “Frank Sinatra” so original. “The Distance” is a funked-up jam with a Chili Peppers chorus. –Jeff Bateman Customer Review: Suprising The fans really know what they are talking about, at least for Cake. Comfort Eagle is way way way inferior to Fashion Nugget. Comfort Eagle is just a mediocre pop ablum with some okay songs. This one just is better. Hard to say, but it makes Comfort Eagle seem lame. And that album really was lame. _____ that, this one is great. While Comfort Eagle had some good songs sorrounding by a bunch of _______ mediocre songs, this one is stronger throughought. The trumpet is one of the things that make the Cake sound, and it delivers. And the person who said the Drums _________ up COmfort Eagle, the music’s drums really made this album also great. Cake have their own sound, Comfort Eagle is a better start. Some people might still like it, some would find it mediocre. Whatever, your choice. Still no Bloodhound Gang though. I do think that this ablum makes Comfort Eagle lifeless and dull. But that is my opinion. I still reccomend with Comfort Eagle first, and if you do tend to like it as well, then that is your opinion.

J. Terence Thompson King Kong 39-by-21-by-23-lnch job Box #2960-1B

There Goes a Mail Truck
Customer Review: Very graphic video re U S postal Services Actor/Producer Dave Hood and actress Becky Borg do a great job taking the “mail” from the corner mail box from the sender to the addressee (geared for kids 3-8),it gives info not interested to their age groups about the different acroynms and not enough for an older kid ,since it’s limited to delivering the mail to “one residential street”–however Hood and Borg ’s antics are the equal of any slapstick comedy with info which is accurate and good to know.

Grand Theft Auto
It’s a balmy, lazy day in Beverly Hills, but two young-and-in-love kids, Sam Freeman (RON HOWARD) and Paula Powers (NANCY MORGAN) have just made the biggest decision of their lives -they’re going to elope to Las Vegas. The good-looking couple speeds into the driveway of Paula’s family mansion to spring the news on her parents. Mr. Bigby Powers (BARRY CAHILL), a business tycoon with emerging political ambitions, stops polishing his prize possession, a vintage Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, just long enough to tell the solidly middle-class Sam Freeman to get lost and to remind his daughter that, as far as he’s concerned, she is going to marry the wealthy heir Collins Hedgeworth (PAUL LINKE) or no one at all. It doesn’t matter that Paula thinks Collins is a spoiled, flaky, perverted mama’s boy. Enraged by his daughter’s stubbornness, Bigby Powers grabs Paula’s car keys and sends his little girl off to her room. Undaunted, Paula climbs out the window, makes off with her father’s Rolls Royce and picks up Sam as she screeches out the gates of the estate. The young lovers are off - streaking across the desert toward Las Vegas and marriage. However, Bigby isn’t going to take this sitting down, especially since he believes his political chances will be seriously jeopardized if his daughter marries so far beneath her. Bigby calls upon a trusted private investigator, Ned Slinker) (RANCE HOWARD), who promises to use his usual discretion in getting Paula back for Bigby. Meanwhile, Collins Hedgeworth gets winds of his presumed fianc e’s flight and takes off in furious pursuit in his Porsche after posting a $25,000 reward for her return. When Collins’ mother Vivian Hedgeworth (MARION ROSS) realizes her son has disappeared, she announces another $25,000 reward, this for her son’s discovery, and then takes up the chase herself. The area’s most popular disc jockey, Curley Q . Brown (DON STEELE), picks up on the story, immediately starts making contact with all the participants in the chase and, to bring this quickly unfolding story to his listeners live and direct, jumps into the station’s helicopter to survey the ever-growing chase from the skies. Motivated variously by law and order, thrills, religious faith, curiosity and especially the big bucks being promised for the apprehension of Sam and Paula, not to mention Collins Hedge-worth, a wild and wide assortment of humanity joins in the frantic pursuit. A fanatical preacher hijacks a police car, the displaced cop commandeers a school bus full of senior citizens, two young and zany auto mechanics drop their tools to speed off seeking adventure and fortune, the highway patrol crisscrosses the desert highways and the goon squad in the employ of Ned Slinker bungles all its attempts to run the errant lovers off the road. The entire rag-tag collection of Porsches, Volkswagens, vans, squad cars, buses and super-charged vehicles whips down the highways and byways, Sam and Paula weaving in and out in a spectacular trail of near-misses as the road behind them becomes one giant wreck of twisted metal and fuming drivers! VHS Features - - Video interview with Ron Howard and Roger Corman - Video interview of Roger Corman by Leonard Maltin - Original theatrical trailers of “Grand Theft Auto” and “Eat My Dust” Customer Review: Ron Howard’s First Film as Director Producer Roger Corman had Howard in the film Eat my Dust, it made money. So Corman offer Howard another film-he worked it into his first directing job. Howard’s imprint was on this film. His co-stars were Nancy Morgan (at that time Mrs John Ritter), His Happy Days costars Marion Ross and Donnie Most, and Assorted friends. Corman films were done on shoe string budgets and this one isnt any different, but even if the shoestring-Howard showcased himself as a good director on his first time out On the DVD, Howard & Corman do audio commentary over the film. If you ever wanted to get into filmmaker’s Howard’s head-this commentary shows how he made the film and he insights into what was right and also what went wrong Go Get this Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

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