Torpedo

What's your favourite Rush album, Mikey (or anyone else's feeling motivated to share)?

RIP Neil.

The One A woman meets a man in a bar. They talk; they connect; they end up leaving together.. They get back to his place, and as he shows her around his apartment. she notices that one wall of his bedroom is completely filled with soft, sweet, cuddly teddy bears. There are three shelves in the bedroom, with hundreds and hundreds of cute, cuddly teddy bears carefully placed in rows, covering the entire wall! It was obvious that he had taken quite some time to lovingly arrange them and she was immediately touched by the amount of thought he had put into organizing the display. There were small bears all along the bottom shelf. Medium-sized bears covering the length of the middle shelf. And huge, enormous bears running all the way along the top shelf. She found it strange for an obviously masculine guy to have such a large collection of Teddy Bears, She is quite impressed by his sensitive side. But doesn't mention this to him. They share a bottle of wine and continue talking and, after awhile, she finds herself thinking, 'Oh my God! Maybe, this guy could be the one! Maybe he could be the future father of my children?' She turns to him and kisses him lightly on the lips. He responds warmly. They continue to kiss, the passion builds. And he romantically lifts her in his arms and carries her into his bedroom. Where they rip off each other's clothes and make hot, steamy love. She is so overwhelmed that she responds with more passion, more creativity, more heat than she has ever known. After an intense, explosive night of raw passion with this sensitive guy, they are lying there together in the afterglow. The woman rolls over, gently strokes his chest and asks coyly, 'Well, how was it?' The guy gently smiles at her, strokes her cheek, looks deeply into her eyes, and says: 'Help yourself to any prize from the middle shelf.'

Quincy Jones - Live in Ludwigshafen 1961 "His Orchestra" were this bunch: Benny Bailey: trumpet; Freddie Hubbard: trumpet; Paul Cohen: trumpet; Curtis Fuller: trombone; Melba Liston: trombone; Ake Persson: trombone; David Baker: trombone; Julius Watkins: French horn; Phil Woods: alto saxophone; Joe Lopes: alto saxophone; Eric Dixon: tenor saxophone, flute; Budd Johnson: tenor saxophone; Sahib Shahib: baritone saxophone, flute; Patti Bown: piano; Les Spann: guitar, flute; Buddy Catlett: bass; Carlos "Patato" Valdes: conga drums; Stu Martin: drums; It's a bittersweet experience listening to such good performers at their prime trying to succeed when their craft was losing the popularity contest. Such is life, who would have told Quincy in those days that he would hit it producing Thriller about twenty years later. He went next to bankruptcy because of that european tour in the early 60s.

Happy Birthday!!!

Maverick Sabre - When I Woke Up

Get well soon, Jose. What a way of starting the year. I've been at a hospital in new year's eve as a patient and as a worker, neither is awesome, but after all it's like any other day. Sex deprivation is worse, I wish it stops hurting soon

Yes, may it be a good one. Best wishes!

A radioactive one, I'd say.

Happy christmasy Birthday, Ric!

Have the merriest day

Finally something I'd understand how it works and that I could use

Enrico Rava & Joe Lovano - Roma To me one of the best jazz releases in 2019. It's available on Tidal and they have that MQA shit as well.

It's awesome, once the brain unlocks the only rotating pattern and there are no axis pictured, you start to see it rotating on any of them at any direction just by thinking of it

I guess it had no papers nor box

Todd, what are the differences between Clear and Elear, any idea why your son prefers the Elear?

It comes out that this is one of the very few recorded performances by Django Reinhardt. Got to it from this talented guitarist YT channel

If I only knew what can be done with those toys...

Yup, that's what they look like. I hope that the price is more Fiat than Ferrari.

Even a decent mid-level.

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Them Dirty Blues

Interesting rant, James. As I'm seeing it is that nowadays the sound quality you get from an affordable device (let's say a chinese smartphone with a 50 bucks pair of IEMs) is superior to anything you'd say it sounded just decent 50 years ago when Hiend audio was developing to get its heyday. Even listening to current lossy files the sound quality has a better dynamic range, less noise, wider frequency range and less distortion than what you were getting from an expensive top of the line Sony Walkman in the 80's. The problem is that Hiend isn't justifying the prices for a better sound, it has become another luxury good more likely to show how "winner" and exclusive is its owner than to provide an improved, more intense, listening experience. This is the move we've been seeing on "exclusive" watches, cars, clothes... anything that is targeted to those few millions of humans that for one reason or another have a few millions yearly to spend just to show off. Since those riches create the trend, then the lower income wannabes target to more affordable yet very expensive products that still will show off how successful and "winner" they are. They're still way wealthier than average, they can afford a 150.000 BMW SUV but not a 1M Bugatti, nor a 500.000 Ferrari. Manufacturers have now a really big market of high rent individuals that would allow them to sell the same shit at 10x the price. Possibly the same amount of people that in the 60's were able to afford a pair of Quad 57 with a matching amplifier and Thorens turntable. Manufacturers aren't stupid, nor their shareholders. If you can sell a camera/watch/speaker/whatever for a several thousands, why getting a lower profit would be acceptable? The paradigm has shifted to the higher prices/benefit as long as the whole production can be sold for a bulkier price. The world has got a load of wealthy ones in the last couple of decades while the middle class (former market of these goods) has got poorer. It's clearly more profitable selling your production at a much higher price/benefit than trying to produce a larger number of items at a lower cost to reach a wider market. Possibly the planet will benefit of this trend too.

Melissa Aldana - Back Home (2016) It can be listened to on Spotify. Tidal doesn't have it available and despite being just 3 year old, the CD is unobtanium. If someone finds it at a reasonable price please let me know. There's a copy in Amazon for just around $57.

Only 300 decks of the 30 model in 20 years? That's really low, I wasn't expecting that. However this "new" luxury market driven by the several millions of ultra wealthy guys with no idea on what's value, might allow them to sell the same 15 decks/year for 2x, 3x, or possibly higher, the current price. They just need the right ads in the right places and convincing the buyers that there's a shortage and a waiting list. If it doesn't work they can get back to the old business model which didn't seem to make them rich either.

I'm afraid they'll succeed, there are way too many rich fools in the planet, they just need to grease the right machinery.