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A friend recommended a charcuterie / butcher who sells at farmers markets and I pre-ordered some stuff from his weekly mailer. This could get dangerous because it is so damn good. While cooking the amazing crepinettes, which I don't recall seeing anywhere other than France, we had some of his paté, which is tasty and original and yet authentic. I only cooked two crepinettes that are rich under their caul fat, and then cooked some rainbow chard in the rendered fat and some balsamic. Add polenta and it was a fantastic easy dinner.

Explorations by Bill Evans Trio (1961) https://open.qobuz.com/album/chp25d3vczyya Example: Naris in the studio. Since there has been so much Bill in the thread. :} -- or should I say not enough Bill in the thread? I spend too much of my Bill time with Live or Portrait In Jazz ('59). More catalog exploration needed. And it is rewarding.

Up in Maine, saw a band called he Slambovian Circus Of Dreams. They are billed as a "Psychedelic Folk" band in some circles. Good music and fun. They are definitely leaning towards a hippy-like vibe. The audience was filled mostly with f4riends and groupies; I was literally one of a few (maybe less than 10) who was seeing them for the first time. The folks next to me had seen them a minimum of 5 times, a couple of them even more. A couple highlights: they did a song called Very Happy Now, and medley'd it (is that a verb?) with The Ramones' I Wanna Be Sedated. And for an encore, they talked about Judy Garland, her untimely death, and then proceeded to play another medley of songs from the Wizard Of Oz. Good music, good vibes, and even a neat T-Shirt out of it.

I will buy a set but if they sound like the originals... I probably won't like them. The HE90 has always left me cold, despite how many I've tried. The HEV90 doesn't fix them either, it just muddies up the sound... seriously the input cap on those is a very nasty electrolytic cap. How that is high end is beyond me... That being said, I've been slowly working on my own clone of the HE90 for a couple of years now. They will never be sold to anybody, just a very stupid and crazy expensive DIY project to fix the HE90's. I have some NOS headbands for them but I'm currently designing a new headband which has more range (as the stock ones barely fit me) and looks like the original. New drivers too but I've only sent out for the first prototype parts for those.

Ah yes. Brings back memories of Saturday nights at the gay bathhouse, Camp David, in Las Vegas in 1980.

And I already know that it looks pretty good on a fat guy!