skullguise

Up in Maine for the long weekend, after some quick but heavy rains got a nice view (our neighbor's place is basically the same as ours).

Reminds me of this gem.....

Propaganda is one of my all-time favorites. I'm also enjoying xPropaganda for what it is, but it still pales in comparison to A Secret Wish. There is some similarity in sound but to me it's more like some of Claudia Brucken solo work mixed with a dose of the original Propaganda. A fair bit on unspoken controversy around the original band, from the mid-80's through multiple attempts at reunions. Even now....Ralf Dorper is a member of the FB group for them, and occasionally pops in with some truths, that weren't "installed by the machine." I really wish they all got along and stayed together, always wonder what could have been.....

Man, bad day, RIP Ray and Andrew....and then RIP Alan White from Yes.....

Oddly enough, my favorite bagels came from Fairlawn NJ. My in-laws lived in Northern Jersey (Glen Rock, near Paramus) for ~50 years. When we'd visit we'd often go into NYC but a place closer to them was my favorite. Hot Bagels on Saddle River Drive in Fairlawn.....my brain is doing a Homer Simpson sound just thinking of it.... My sister- and brother-in-law live on Long Island and when they come up my wife gets an order from Bagel Boss for her to bring up. Also very good, but my memory of the Fairlawn place eclipses all....

Of course nothing will be done, except maybe "arm the teachers" more....

What...."Realtek High Definition Audio" doesn't do it for you? 😄

I find it amusing that no one is questioning the fact that someone made a life-size moose out of chocolate....just the TYPE of chocolate used! 'Murca....fuckin' moose, yeah!

Saw in FB today, the same message I've seen many times but liked the meme better.

Happy Birthday Brent!

I'd agree with Ian, but would bump up both RAM and maybe video memory. A couple of folks on my team doing Data Science got Dell Latitudes with 32G RAM and I think 6G NVidia video memory. The Dell - both Precision and Latitude, though Precision may have better keyboard - and Lenovo laptops would be my recommendations as well.... And she should be prepared for driver updates, another thing (HW and driver stability) Apple has over PC's....

Happy Birthday!!

We're up in Maine for our anniversary and had to stop to see one of the local celebrities....

Happy Birthday!!

Went to my dad's to visit, just me and him. We talked about our family history (still much unknown), and of him playing basketball in Philadelphia growing up (and how basketball was a "Jewish game" early on). I recorded 2 long videos of it, so good to have this info although a lot of the family history is so vague.... I had mentioned he played against Wilt Chamberlain in a school playground basketball court....he mentioned that Wilt's nickname - before becoming Wilt the Stilt - was "Dippy" Chamberlain! 😄 This is pure gold for me, having this on record now. Karen had also done some recordings of her mom before she passed, about her family and what she knew. To be treasured for sure.....

I've listened to several Joy Division things today, including some early material when they went by the name Warsaw. For several years they were my favorite band, and are still up there in the top 5..... Probably my favorite song by them is Decades, the last song on the Closer album. In hindsight, knowing of Ian's suicide, this is such a powerful song to me. There is a keyboard "solo" towards the end that just sounds so frail...and of course the lyrics are very fateful..... EDIT: and the first single that new Order had post-JD was Ceremony/In A Lonely Place. Written while they were still Joy Division....the B-side is also incredibly powerful lyrically and in mood. Again, especially in hindsight....and it was the last demo ever recorded by the group apparently Lyrics: Caressing the marble and stone Love that was special for one The waste in the fever and heat How I wish you were here with me now Body that curls in and dies Hardship that often belies Warm like a dog round your feet How I wish you were here with me now Hangman looks round as he waits Cord stretches tight then it breaks Someday we will die in your dreams How I wish we were here with you now

Very Happy Birthday!!

A fun guilty pleasure listen.... Japanese Female Pop-Punk band, Otoboke Beaver. That Yakitori song repetitiveness reminded me of this old gem:

Happy Birthday Ari!

Happy Birthday! Hope it is/was great!

<---- See my avatar for that one Ric.....😝

Picked up a gift certificate at a local spa for my wife for Mother's Day. I wanted to give the monetary equivalent of three 50-minute massages ($87 each). The person getting the GC for me asked her co-worker what 3 times the price was, and before she could even pull out the calculator, I told her the amount. They both stared at me in awe, the second one double-checked my "work" and proclaimed I was right. they spent the next few minutes completing the card, and talking about how good I was with math. Scary.... They certainly LOOKED lovely.... 😂

Wow....RIP Klaus.....another legend gone!

Hey, give it a chance! I think it will give Pono a run for the money! 😄

Love my boy....he surpasses me in sarcasm and is almost Bernie-left....but we had this fun exchange when he told me he was going back to Spotify instead of the TIDAL family plan (more selections and features for him and his g/f).