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G. Gordon Liddy, Mastermind Behind Watergate Burglary, Dies at 90 This is the obit he deserves. Born George Gordon Battle Liddy in New Jersey in 1930, he is said to have been a frail boy who was inspired by the rousing radio speeches of Adolf Hitler that residents in his German American neighbourhood were listening to at the time. "If an entire nation could be changed, lifted out of weakness to extraordinary strength, so could one person," he wrote in his autobiography Will, recalling how he roasted and ate a rat at the age of 11 in order to overcome his fear of rodents. Some of the extreme ideas he, and colleague Howard Hunt, a former CIA officer, came up with - from plotting to kill Nixon critics to kidnapping anti-war protesters - never got the go-ahead, but their plan to bug the Democratic National Committee offices did. Also https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/g-gordon-liddy-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Lost Album, Human Highway https://longreads.com/2021/03/30/crosby-stills-nash-youngs-lost-album-human-highway/

Larry McMurtry, author of The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, and Brokeback Mountain dies at 84. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56542882 I’m always going to remember him though for All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, a novel about not fitting in in San Francisco, while wasting time at the cinemas, a book I read when I moved to San Francisco and wasted lots of time in cinemas.

For the first time in forever taking a couple days off and decided to load up the Kindle. How horrible am I? https://castro.fm/episode/1RFtKi

This should answer all your fp L questions

Sigma continues to do its own thang

^ Good to keep in mind when a single stop is irritating.

Thought this free Sunday program might be interesting for some. https://silentfilm.org/making-music-for-film/ Our next free online masterclass features DJ Spooky in conversation with Carter Burwell and Graham Reynolds. These three extraordinary musicians (and friends) will talk about composing for film—touching on the similarities and differences for silent cinema. Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) is an artist and composer with an affinity for silent film. His live remix of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation—Rebirth of a Nation—premiered in 2004 and Miller went on to score Dovzhenko’s Earth and Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, among others. He executive-produced the Pioneers of African-American Cinema box set, which features his scores for two Oscar Micheaux films. Miller performed at SFSFF 2017 with his score for Micheaux’s Body and Soul and there are plans afoot to bring Miller to San Francisco to perform at SFSFF’s next in-person event. Carter Burwell is known to anyone who’s seen a film by the Coen Brothers—his ineffable touch is on everything from Blood Simple to The Big Lebowski to The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, not to mention his scores for films by Todd Haynes and Spike Jonze! Graham Reynolds composed the elegant music for Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, Before Midnight, and Where’d You Go, Bernadette, among his many other film scores. Reynolds got his film-composing start by scoring silent films!

Magnum Square Print sale is back for the week. If you need something small for the walls. https://www.magnumphotos.com/shop/

Speaking of cuils

Hope you have a great birthday

Speaking of animals... https://www.instagram.com/p/CMFcQPijXi-/?igshid=1wydztlawt2v9

Bill Frisell: 70th Birthday Show March 18-21 $10.00 Special broadcast in celebration of Bill’s 70th birthday! Bill Frisell – Guitar Thomas Morgan - Bass Rudy Royston - Drums https://villagevanguard.com/product/bill-frisell-70th

Intel hits back

Also a recording artist for a time

Have watched a few videos (including a rambling Quincy Jones one and another preoccupied that it didn’t have a USB-C port when developed in 2015) and its seems like it’s hit this price point before. Not surprising the reviews at $1500 and $300 are different. Some are more critical of the analog input than Tyll (though he also addresses). Seems you may need to limit output settings to it (saw a AKG response to a OS X question recommending 16/44.1 at one point). Still so tempting.

Antkind. Kaufman is just as fun in print.

Thanks. Good suggestion.

I'm having second thoughts on the HD8XX, not because of the above, but because I went to order replacement pads for the deteriorating cups and headband pads and can't find the latter anywhere. There's hardly a listing on search and Senn is out of stock. I was eventually browsing Croatian resellers, which I'd rather avoid if possible. I don't think Senn is in that much trouble, but anyone have a known source in the US? And yes, there are low-rated third party alternatives I'm unlikely to order.

Plowed through the seven fun episodes

There’s a story behind this. Sadly I can’t remember and Google isn’t helping.

Henri Cartier Bresson - The Decisive Moment

The couple that changed photography - the invention of Robert Capa. https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/dream-teams?vpid=p0973v2z

Second LP in over a year. From “silver” to “gold” with Mr. Zimmerman