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As Parasound was mentioned, and I was once a proponent owning five vintage models at the same time, thought I should mention I’ve recently gone back, not to 1600 or 2000, thus not balanced, but the single-ended, unmodified 1100. For whatever it’s worth overall it was kinda disappointing compared to modern options. Tone was still great, but separation and placement was not.

That was great Mikey! Inside the Bubble https://www.nhl.com/video/embed/inside-the-bubble-photographers/t-317751416/c-5409414

Opened our windows! Wind direction is threading fires on either side so we temporarily have “moderate” air. #simplepleasures #2020 With the Australian Thunder from Down Under Firemen helping now, containment is progressing.

My favorite song today

Speaking of over there... just finished Normal People. Pretty good.

Successfully solved a ceiling fan long wobble (rubber octopus!) and extracted a broken light bulb from its socket. Why am I feeling this triumphant? #2020

Turning into our regular mellow Coronavirus Saturday morning kickoff...

Always loved our conversations. IEMs forever.

Ass Ponys' Lohio

Bill Frisell - Valentine - Vinyl Live Stream

Combining a couple loves... https://petapixel.com/2020/08/18/wes-anderson-pens-foreward-of-photo-book-inspired-by-his-style/

Pavement's Quarantine The Past, also for obvious reasons.

Replaced the six year old $11.99 generic Chinese Bluetooth adapter with a modern $14.99 generic Chinese Bluetooth adapter. Improved SQ and 2010 Kia Optima now slightly less embarrassing.

... and is step up the right position?

Camera humor

Matt Herron, Civil Rights Photographer, Dies at 89 https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/matt-herron-documentary-photographer-and-adventurer-dies-while-hang-gliding From earlier in the year...

Trini Lopez, singer, guitar designer, and star of The Dirty Dozen, dies from Coronavirus https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/12/trini-lopez-covid-19-frank-sinatra-dirty-dozen?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I hear that they're tuned specifically for Rammstein

Indian Matchmaking marathon

Mountain Man - Look at Me Don't Look at Me

This again. I almost wish I was going through a breakup to ride along with this album.

I don’t have any advice, but please let us know when you drive through Milestii Mici.

The film versions of those two were released the same year and the wrong one became famous. After Dark is still unknown and so good. Was in a different spot in my life when I read Thompson, but maaan did it resonate then. Like Bukowski/Fante-levels at the same time, but again I was in a different space (semi-emotionally trapped on a Great Lakes 1x1.5 mile island for several months). Just look at your image. The Killer Inside Me was probably his first great... and a pretty bad movie. From Wikipedia: The writer R.V. Cassill has suggested that of all crime fiction, Thompson's was the rawest and most harrowing; that neither Dashiell Hammett nor Raymond Chandler nor Horace McCoy ever "wrote a book within miles of Thompson". Similarly, in the introduction to Now and on Earth, Stephen King says he most admires Thompson's work because "The guy was over the top. The guy was absolutely over the top. Big Jim didn't know the meaning of the word stop. There are three brave lets inherent in the foregoing: He let himself see everything, he let himself write it down, then he let himself publish it."