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Wood stove wood fired pizza among the falling leaves. Home made dough, creamed leeks, pancetta and fresh mozzarella.

There's a place on MV called the "Dumptique." The purpose is to keep reusable items out of the landfill. I drove up there with a car load of stuff I just couldn't keep (going from a 5 bedroom farmhouse to a 1200 square foot cottage is ride, let me tell you.) It was not my plan to take anything back, but I did peruse the media shelf. Apparently I arrived at the right moment. Mixed in with Sex in the City Season 3, Disc 4, some megachurch propaganda and a box of Christmas music missing disc 5 was this stack: Goddamn. It's like a Gen Xer died or gave up all their physical media. All of it is interesting, but that Bauhaus disc is legendary. It was almost more or less impossible to find in the late 80s when I was obsessively collecting their music. The only downside is that the Stranglers anthology is missing my favorite song by them. Of course, I've always been partial to the cover version by Prong.

I though - I must have seen Sabbath. In the early 70's we as a bunch of lads used to see bands at Newcastle (UK) City Hall - just a regular size city hall. Anyway you can easily find gig listings for that City Hall from that period. How about Elton John, Pink Floyd, Sabbath, Zep, ELP and many others. Ticket price? Well Elton John was quite expensive - 90p (so less that £1!) Most others were typically 60-70p. This was in the very early days of outdoor festivals. The first Woodstock was in 1969, and the first Isle of Wight festival was 1970 (and still has the record attendance of 750,000). So landmark bands played small venues and Universities. I saw AC/DC in the University dining room at Southampton! A golden age to see these bands close up. Ear bleedingly loud. Even at head banging 16 with my long centre parted hair and denims I used to shove cotton wool in my ears. Very weird back in the day, but at least my hearing is roughly intact.

A very one and done supergroup.

I thought that the Arkansas goat festival was a wind up - until I found that it is a serious event https://www.arkansasgoatfestival.com/ And yes - there is a "Goat Lingerie Show (Nannies at Night)" https://www.arkansasgoatfestival.com/schedule1 That is the single most weird event. Makes chilli pepper eating contests seem sane.

That's a good point. I'll be reviewing all the documentation of the 100-400mm 4.5l (it´s my favotite lens) but I can add other lens too. Meanwhile:

I´m doing a bit experiment. The R6 MkII can shot with Full Frame or like an APSC 1.6. Maybe I´m doing something wrong but I think that in APSC I have more details (for example if you oversize at 180%) even though the sensor has less resolution in that mode. I would like to do new tests but using the 90D (APSC 32MP) vs R6 MK II in APCS mode.

Not today, but Thursday night, the northern lights made a return visit. Quite visible to the naked eye this time with pretty striking red and green hues across the whole night sky. Wild to see in southern New England. Today, replaced the rear brakes on the Volvo which my mechanic had said were "metal on metal". That was a slight exaggeration but the pads were down to the wear bars so it was time. The rotors actually looked pretty good (essentially no lip) but decided that it made sense to do them while I was in there since I already had the parts. I did not end up doing the fronts as they still have a good 1.5mm to the wear bar and the rotors look fine as well. I'll keep the parts on hand and plan on doing them next spring summer depending on how inspection goes in March.

Nercoing the absolute shit out of this thread because not everything has to go Jacob's Jacobless Jacobing. It's my birthday. Tomorrow. I'm treating myself to a nice Canon 600mm lens some of the finer selections from my Discogs wantlist: First up is an obscure and normally difficult to acquire Norwegian ambient album from the mid 90s (I swear I don't have a type ...I totally have a type.) NNC - Fosen. It's professionally produced, but privately release and seldom comes up for sale. Check out the review a Discogger nearly as old as I am wrote in '08: IPG - D*****land EP. A CD version of an early 90s EP on the short-lived but storied t:me label. t:me was the predecessor to the storied em:t label. em:t was a terribly run business (they failed not once but twice) but were home to legendary releases like Woob's 1194 and 4495, not to mention Gas - 0095. I also threw in Alexandroid - False Starts which I don't know too much about because it was cheap. Alexandroid is one of those insanely prolific Russian electronic musicians I used to rant about on my radio show. The last one is a sealed copy of Lol and Rey Silva - Ambient Or Ambient, which is a peculiar release from Spain in the early 2000s. Spain actually has long history with downtempo, primarily because of the island of Ibiza. With that in mind, the mainland of the country also has a very small scene that tends to get overshadowed. I've noticed that Spanish releases often have miserable distribution and can be a nightmare to get. It's only been in the last few years that I've seen this one for sale on Discogs or anywhere else.