Dusty Chalk

I listened to Rush 50 today, going back to Pete Namlook (ambient) in a minute. Took a detour first to listen to Bobby Rush's Rush Hour -- good ol' funk, very easy to listen to.

RIP former federal prosecutor Jessica Aber, US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia -- a Biden appointee -- until January, when she stepped down to allow Trump to appoint his own. She was found dead a little less than 24 hours ago. Investigation is ongoing. She was 43.

Happy birthday, Al! (party favour noise)

New Steven Wilson (The Overview) Two tracks, effectively. I guess he's doing pProg again. I liked it. His head voice...sounds like mine. I don't consider that good, as I am barely a beginner, and I don't practice. That said, I do like his more than mine (we all hate our own recorded voices), I am just not sure what the intangible (to me) difference is.

A little late for Ravel's 150th, but this was my great (ahem) gateway to Ravel's orchestrating genius. I heard his orchestration before I heard Mussorgsky's solo piano version, and have since fallen in love with his genius. Even from his treatment of the opening Promenade, there's a bit more breadth, a bit more gravitas, a bit more there there. Not afraid to solo instruments, or interleave solo instruments against a delicate backdrop of small subsets of the orchestra, it is a masterpiece of restraint. cf. "The Old Castle" movement All the better to contrast the bombast. cf. "The Great Gates of Kiev" movement

It's Ravel's 150th, so listening to some Ravel -- soloists Yuja Wang, Martha Argerich, Heifetz, et al. Will try to squeak in some orchestral works or his arrangement of Pictures.

I love this thumbnail ...anyway, here's Elvis Costello:

Happy birthday, fren! (party favour noise)

In the mood for Impressionism, so...

Lots and lots of Bjørn Riis -- did an entire discog run and then some (repeated many tracks) "He really digs Pink Floyd" Example: Now listen to Creatures of the Night

I actually gave someone an existential crisis by posting this elsewhere:

https://corvidresearch.blog/2018/12/21/a-matter-of-a-pinion/

RIP Karen. My sincerest condolences.

Michelle Trachtenberg, at the age of 39 Foul play is not suspected, as she was recently recipient of a liver transplant and may have been experiencing complications, but an autopsy will be performed A friend of mine recently was the recipient of a kidney transplant, so this ... makes me nervous. So far so good, though (for him).

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

https://www.apple.com/iphone-16e/

I am now thinking of Corgis, for some reason.

Ah, fuck, happy belated birthday, Colin! Or maybe almost I got half an hour on the West coast, maybe? (party favour noise)

@Augsburger thought of you the other day when I was contemplating what to get from a local H-mart. Delicious, can recommend.

Happy belated birthday, Jeff! (party favour noise)

Saw this, made me think of you people: That speaker placement at the end, though. (cringe)