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We watched Becoming Led Zeppelin on Netflix last night. Very enjoyable...missed it on IMAX but such is life. HS

Yeah, that sounds right!

Hmmm, is that Gilda Radner in her satirical commercial for "Haley's Bristol Cream?" She parodied the real commercial of a woman telling another woman to call a man and not wait for him. So she tries it a couple times and the men are not available; she ends up yelling out to a stranger int he street, and you then see a bum in her apartment drinking with her.... Tried a quick search for the video, didn't find it.

I have fond memories of having seen Nitzer Ebb exactly once. When that wobbly bassline started...

Ohmigosh, I love "This House". So melodramatic. Right up there with "Winter Kills" in terms of depressing music. (For some reason, I'm always reminded of an SNL skit of a desperate, drunk woman in her apartment, "I'll shout from my window, to anyone listening: 'I'm losing!'" 🤣 ) In my top 10 favourite songs with her singing, with "All Cried Out", "Where Hides Sleep", "Winter Kills", "Goodbye Seventies", and others. I first discovered it as the B-side to "Love Letters", with a guitar solo instead of that bridge section. This is that version:

RIP Brian....even though I didn't listen to a ton of Beach Boys music, the massive respect and recognition is there for their - and especially HIS - greatness. Also RIP to Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb. Their music was in good rotation in years past.... Only 58 too, likely related to liver issues..... https://www.stereogum.com/2311466/nitzer-ebb-frontman-douglas-mccarthy-dead-at-58/news/

The more I listen, the more I love this; unique sound and she still has so much passion in her singing. "This House" hits a bit hard, but all is great.

Who needs Pet Sounds when we have Ding Dang?

I'd be lying if I said anything other than, I want this computer: ...or perhaps just some run time on it.

Jim Lauderdale at a free concert. Not recording this time

^ same.

It's based on a real woman -- Deja Solis. The artist, Marco Cochrane -- a Burning Man devotee, go figure -- has done it before. It's an artistic interpretation of the answer to the question, "What would the world be like if women were safe?" Quite frankly, we need this in the world right now. Right after those disgusting words were posted a while back, shortly after Trump took office, "Your Body, My Choice," by wannabe rapists, we need this in the world. Sometimes, I hate my entire half of the human race.

Godspeed, Brian... You had one heck of a run. HS

And I'll add Paul McCartney's favorite. When I found out Melissa was pregnant, the first album I thought of introducing to future Esmé was Pet Sounds.

I stopped watching anything by LTT a few years ago and I regret nothing. I feel dumber from just looking at their click-baity thumbnails.

We cannot see the clearance between those legs, a bit scary to me. And the goop spills + low-ish distance between the bare metal tabs and the heatsink... People had magic smoke for less than that. Anyways, congrats for a newborn T2!

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Or a sarcastic techy perspective?

Wait... Not everything that LTT reports on is accurate... I'm shock, Shocked I say...

RIP Brian. Another prodigy gone. Figured I’d drop his favorite song here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortnin'_Bread#The_Beach_Boys_version

RIP Brian Wilson - 82

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That statue is, as the kids say, caked up.

This past weekend I went up to my Maine condo. Met up with an Audio friend for lunch in Portland, then worked my way South back to the condo. I ended up talking non-highway routes (Rt 1), and made stops coincidentally at several places Karen and I visited last Fall when we did a similar trip. Was both sad and wonderful, good memories but emptier without her. For anyone travelling to Southern Maine, some fun foodie places: The Cheese Iron in Scarborough - https://www.thecheeseiron.com/ Holy Donut in Portland and Scarborough (and a smaller location right near my condo!) - https://www.theholydonut.com/ Len Libby Candy shop Scarborough and home of Lenny the Chocolate Moose - https://www.lenlibby.com/ Maine is a beautiful state, lots of great small towns near and off the water. When we would go up, we'd literally feel the stress wash off and our shoulders relax as we crossed the bridge from NH into Maine. Gratuitous pic of Lenny the Moose.....