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All leakage issues haven’t been solved, but fingers crossed.

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who lived in an airport for 18 years, and inspiration for The Terminal, has died. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63612017

Anyone checking out The English? Halfway through the limited series and entertaining so far.

This WTF podcast with him is a little wild. https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/gallagher

I had to check it myself, though arguably when Gallagher (1) sued "Gallagher Too" (2), we were back to just one. Still it was cool to be so popular you could let your brother stand in and make a living for years. 1 ran for CA governor in the 2003 recall. https://www.cnn.com/videos/showbiz/2012/03/16/vo-gallagher-routine.cnn

Bill Frisell, Greg Tardy, Gerald Clayton, and Johnathan Blake, Four. "...a stunning 13-track meditation on loss, renewal and friendships” written mostly during lockdown. Ex.

Hope it a wonderful Marantz-filled day.

So for what it's worth stock seems to be coming back occasionally. Perhaps they're spreading it around. Still time if there are others interested. Buy now before we all lose our jobs in the recession. https://www.audeze.com/products/promo-2022

So the LCD3 Zebrawood showed back up tonight and I think I just bought a pair. Rob, you get the LCD5 and we'll compare and see if they're worth it, kay?

Creating GoFundMe now.

Anyone jumping on the Audeze sale? https://www.audeze.com/products/promo-2022?utm_source=B-Stock Sale EDIT: Well, I almost did. 20 minutes of trying to get into an existing account, that seemed not to exist until I created a new one with same email address, which then listed past orders so existing, ended up with a sold out LCD3 Zebrawood at payment stage. Damn. Oh well. $1K for photography gear I guess.

Definitely ways to make September feel like it's back to November.

Shantaram. Four episodes in and while it plays like the book is likely even better and can come across a little white savior-y, it's a pretty compelling story and well visualized. Highly recommended you check it out if you have AppleTV+. Alternatively the Hollywood Reporter calls it "sprawling, meandering and inconsistent." 😶

HBO Cancels ‘Westworld’ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hbo-cancels-westworld-1235255955/

Ukraine celebrates armed forces' "titanic efforts" with Crimean bridge attack stamp https://www.dezeen.com/2022/10/11/crimean-bridge-attack-stamp-ukrainian-postal-service-ukrposhta/

Anyone phone shopping? https://petapixel.com/2022/11/02/xiaomi-shows-off-smartphone-that-mounts-full-size-leica-lenses/

Nosaj Thing's Continua ex.

Occasionally photography ads can be fun...

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain’s The Melody of Rhythm

White Lotus 2. Great characters setup opening episode.

Lasse Thoresen's Lyden av Arktis (The Sound of the Arctic) from 2L. It's "an acoustic atlas: a musical expedition that reaches as far into the Earth’s interior as it does into our minds and souls. It stands both as a multi-dimensional cultural and historical fable and as an environmental statement — with a breadth that envelops hope, beauty and nature’s untamed forces, beginning with the Arctic wind’s warning whisper, and ending with humankind’s inevitable apocalypse." That last part signals how good this also would be for scary, loud, trick-or-treating music. Ex:

I dunno

For the hell of it, knowing nothing about the show, wanted to see if I could find a review of Alaska Daily that didn’t mention Northern Exposure. Rolling Stone? TV Guide? LATimes? Hollywood Reporter? Chicago Sun-Times? C’mon guys, there must be one. I give up.