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The postman always rings twice. Live album arrived.

Long story short: Donny Diapers got buttmad because Stephen Tyrone Colbert was mean to him on air. Larry Ellison bought CBS and put his bratty kid David in charge of it. David fired Stephen to stay in Donny's good graces (and to get various corporate mergers approved.) Stephen made an appearance on Michigan public access TV. Stephen put the results up on YouTube. YT is now blocking searches for it(!) There are many guest stars.

Today my postman left this in my mailbox... I took the opportunity to listen to it and get some sleep. These guys from Gondwana usually have a lot of artists that I love. Jasmine Myra "Where Light Settles"

For those interested, WKCR is running a 48 hour Sonny Rollins Memorial Broadcast Friday and Saturday. http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u

Buckethead, Electric Tears example:

Because reasons... Speaking of friends of the thread. Way Out West by Sonny Rollins (1957) https://open.qobuz.com/album/0088807201473 Example: My first Sonny album I purchased, heavy vinyl from 1992 Analogue Productions. Always stuck. And lives in my queue rent free. I looked and I had three others in my queue, so they just moved to the top. RIP Sonny... 'n thx...

Since I just got these, might be time to talk about possibly the rarest stuff Stax ever made. Let me introduce the SRM-Monitor Mk2 and the SR-Lambda Pro New: I've only seen a couple of these for sale over the years so very rare indeed. The headphones are basically the modern version of the Lambda Pro's but not the Spirit/Pro Classic, made later than that. The SRM-Monitor has been called the Mk2 but the changes are mostly to the chassis. Inside there is still a SRM-1 Mk2 and the ED-1 but with different parts. They are all Pro bias only and notice the extra output on the back. The volume knob is also similar to the SRM-T1S/W knob and not the SRM-1 Mk2 unit found of the original Monitors. I have no idea when these were made but I've heard late 90's and for special customers which wanted to replace their older Lambda Pro sets and SRM-Monitors. With these here the Lambda collection is almost complete...

They are very different headphones and the ES-2a easily beats in terms of price but I'd lean more towards the 009D in terms of raw performance. The 009D is really growing on me and what amazes me is how Stax can release crap like the X9000 and the 007S and then this... Both the X9000 and 007S are headphones I'd never listen to for fun while I've been logging a lot of hours on the 009D.

Today I slept for 14 hours after a week long struggle. They removed the head of CHP (main opposition party which I'm member) by using court. Can't explain really in English. They set up a new leader who lost 13 elections to Erdogan. Shit went south. They used police to enter the HQ of the party. Started to use more force on protesters who are with elected MPs which is illegal. New leader immediately started to pull some strings to remove the inside opposition. According to unlawful court desicion I'm not a member of CHP any more, but actually I am. Dunno really hard to explain but we're really close to be new Russia. Here are some articles from The Guardian covering the news: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/turkey-court-removes-head-chp-party-ozgur-ozel-erdogan https://www.theguardian.com/world/turkey Almost all of the local chapters of CHP is pro Özgür Özel. Including us. So after festival new-old head of CHP is going to start to remove all opposition. We decided to resist. New party might emerge, dunno really.