Bass Drum T-handle tension rods

I am posting this for an enquirer who wants to know the source: Gibraltar SC-BDTR/S Bass Drum T-Rod 7/32 Inch 4/Pack

Cool iPhone tools

Here are a few inexpensive, but surprisingly nice iPhone accessories that I have recently purchased:

3 pcs Aqua Blue/Black/Red Capacitive Stylus

Please take the time to read this informative review that will enlighten you about styli.

Wallet Dot Leather Case for iPhone 4/4S - Black/Blue

eForCity Wallet Leather Case compatible with Apple® iPhone® 4 / 4S, Black / Pink Dot

HDE® Silver Wireless Bluetooth 3.0 Keyboard compatible with iPad, Mac OS, Windows OS, and Android

Also take the time to read this review of the keyboard, which corrects some of the shortcomings in the documentation.

Oscar Pettiford & Cello

In keeping with having a catch-all blog that I use more as a scratchpad than anything else, this page will contain some stuff that just will not fit in Music for Drummers. The focus is the great bassist Oscar Pettiford on cello. I should did some Charles Mingus up on cello since that genius started on that instrument, but for now I'll stay with Pettiford.

Most tracks are from In a Cello Mood and all feature Oscar playing pizzicato style. Definitely also check out The Dozens: Jazz Cello by Eric Wendell.

New phone

Last purchases of 2012

My final 2012 purchases to keep me in music (and to feed my new addiction to French cinema):

• The Sicilian Girl
• The Orange Thief
• The Salt of Life
• Mid-August Lunch
• Storyville - The Naked Dance
• SanDisk Ultra 64 GB MicroSDXC
• Bluetooth Transmitter
• Bluetooth Keyboard
• Wine Set
• Kind of Shaw
• Kind of Hawkins
• Kind of Rich
• Charles Mingus
• Charlie Parker Now's The Time
• Salt Peanuts Dizzy Gillespie
• Just Squeeze Me: Miles Davis
• Jazz Divas: The Essential Collection
• Greatest Jazz Divas

Birthday Movies Part II

In my last post, Birthday Movies I listed some movies I purchased with an Amazon gift certificate my daughter Gina sent me. Not long after another gift certificate arrived from my other daugher, Theresa. Here are the movies I used that one for. What wonderful kids!

Head in the Clouds

The Flame Trees of Thika

Match Point

Scoop

American Experience: New Orleans

La Strada

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: The Complete Season 7

Birthday movies

My daughter Gina sent me an Amazon gift certificate for my 64th birthday, which I used to feed my Woody Allen and French cinema addictions. Here are the gems (and thank you Gina!)

My Afternoons With Margueritte

Women on the 6th Floor

Romantics Anonymous

Don't Drink the Water

Everyone Says I Love You

For fun

My daughter Gina took this on her phone when she and my other daughter (Theresa) came to visit on 6 December:

Out of the Norm: The Life of Norman Granz

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