Dusty Chalk

Kudos to Adele for making Spotify remove the "shuffle" album default (which stung me more times than I care to admit). I meant to listen to her to reward her efforts. Now if Spotify would just pay the artists more, that would be better. Centipede steps. Me: Organ Freeman (LOL)

Wow, two genius moments in one day! Noice!

This guitarist is fantastic (math rock)

This one hurts. I'm a huge fan of the band, and two of my best friends IRL are two of the band's biggest fans, and we were just talking about him/them on Thursday, the day before the accident, anticipating a North American tour: https://www.loudersound.com/news/big-big-train-singer-david-longdon-dead-at-56

Day 1 of this year's Progspace Online Festival -- some really great lesser known prog metal acts playing, have been enjoying so far, recommended if you're alright with fuzzy guitars and harsh vocals and complicated music.

Well, she went ahead and bought the Rancilio combination, and I agree with her reasoning -- it's not just for herself, as she will be able to serve it to clients, so will also be able to write it off on taxes.

Happy birthday, JP!

Listening to this now, this might be my favourite album from either artist individually, and I am a fan of both. I mean, I am literally giggling in how great it is. And apparently there was a blood moon last night.

Me n+1! Additionally, they promised to give my favourite band every month 10% of my fee -- that's like $1.50, which is about $1.50 more (with rounding) than they're getting from Spotify, as I tend to listen to some very underground bands. https://tidal.com/formusic?showLove=true&crm=true Just decided to keep Tidal, if for nothing else, for that. Of course, in April, that'll probably be Kylie Minogue, but that's okay.

Thoughts on Rancilio Silvia espresso machine? Are there better (or as good) machines that are cheaper? Rocky grinder? Niche is cheaper, so is Niche the d-_-b recommendation? Asking for a friend...in the UK, so yeah, maybe imaginary friend, but pretty sure she's real.

Isis, Live IV - 11/16/2007 Recorded 14 years ago today

Condolences, Steve.

Happy birthday! 🎉🎊🎁🎈🎂 (party favour noise)

Happy birthday! 🎉🎊🎁🎈🎂 (party favour noise)

Reminds of ...a bit

RIP Travis Scott fans https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/06/us/houston-astroworld-festival/index.html

Yeah, I listened to ERR all in one sitting, it was sublime. Re: Aimee Mann -- oh. She's settled into a nice comfy singer-songwriter niche, which I find worth listening to once in a while, but if she's not your thing, don't force yourself. I thought I remembered you liking her. Only semi-unrelated: really looking forward to Chelsea Wolfe/Converge

New Bent Knee, Frosting. Not sure what to make of it. Not sure I ever will. I kinda like about half of it, but I fricking hate the hyperpop stuff -- the autotune and fucked up vocal modulation stuff, that just sounds like children playing with toys. I just don't get it. This is one of the better tunes: You're welcome! Did you see there's a new Aimee Mann as well?

Listening to the new Emma Ruth Rundle, Engine of Hell -- unlike anything she's ever done before. Beautiful acoustic slowcore, very minimalist, raw production.

https://www.livescience.com/immortal-crab-entombed-in-amber

Finished both seasons of Locke & Key -- very much enjoyed. But, like my reading (October Daye, &c), it's very YA -- not sure why I'm so drawn to that, I just like the fantasy premise to show the human condition in various ways (loss, alcoholism, teenage rebellion, bullying, emotional manipulation, younger child stuff, just everything). The CG was just little (quantity) enough not to be the centerpiece of the show -- like MCU movies -- but high-production-values enough to enjoy when it was shown.

Well...to go off on a tangent -- tapping is tapping, so they're all inter-related. Tapping on guitar is much harder than it is on the Stick, the Stick is actually designed for tapping. In fact, even my NS/Stick -- which is technically designed to be played either with tapping or with picking -- it's easier to just tap all the time, when I want to practice picking or strumming, I don't go for the NS/Stick. So that may be why the two might seem decoupled, because one doesn't really inform the other.

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