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That Airtight and Franco Serblin room was great (3rd pic from the bottom). Last year they had their 211 p-p monos with Franco’s bigger speakers. Winning combination both times.

Peaky Blinders

How Wireless Charging Works and Why It's Terrible - iFixit:

That would explain all the warm air on my neck.

It really centered the image for me.

Did Naaman's head act as an acoustic lens?

Axpona is always a blast. Spent quite a bit of time with a view of @naamanf’s head. Lots of good “small scale” rooms (too many to list). Notable highlights for me this year were the big Stenheim room on the ground floor, Jeff Catalano’s High Water Sound room with the upgraded Cessaro horns, MBL, and Bill Parish with the Vivids. Bonus photo of the SAT turntable I’d never encountered in person before.

The Chinaman made some crazy drills here, Dude. Also, "Chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature...

Beethoven for Three: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 by Yo-Yo Ma (2022) https://album.link/i/1590901485 Example: I thought I would put this on as a light listen - and holy smokes is it good. This was the first one released in the B43 series (2022). And the arrangement and performance of the 2nd symphony is shockingly good to me. And well done on Sony's part for the recording. I liked the one that was released this year (posted a bit ago), but not like this. Third listen this week and it is only Tuesday. It may become a staple in my queue.

This limited series differed from the original film and the remake, but went into more detail. Pretty good overall.

RIP unknown rock star phishing link something.

Maybe it's someone who changed their name to Rock Icon?

I hope so... ...er...

The recitative and sung parts can be a bit tough, but didn't spoil the album for me.

Started Sugar (AppleTV)

Indeed. From https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/whats-on-news/outrageous-life-notorious-chef-marco-21602394 "Allegedly, Marco even once made Gordon Ramsay - renowned for being a tough chef who regularly causes jaws to drop on shows like Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - break down in tears. Australia's news.com.au reports Marco trained Gordon at his restaurant Harvey's, and "exposed [him] to daily rituals of humiliation, foul language, flying knives and almost unbearable pressure," according to a 2006 profile in The Telegraph. Marco said: "I can’t remember what it was about, but I yelled at him and he lost it. The next thing I knew he was sobbing in the corner, holding his head in his hands, with tears rolling down his cheeks. "He was saying things like, 'I don’t care what you do to me. Hit me. I don’t care'." The problem is that the bullied and humiliated become the bullier and humiliator. I've had two bosses who fell into that category, alas (Both now safely dead). The poet Philip Larkin wrote a bleak poem called "This be the Verse" that describes this sort of process: They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself.

The only real footage I've seen of Ramsay cooking in a purely professional setting was when he was under Marco Pierre White, who was by all accounts a holy terror. I would not be surprised to find out Ramsay can really lose his temper in the kitchen, what luck then that people seem to enjoy paying to watch him do it. I've been a consumer of his content for years, off and on, and there is a clear progression from his earliest British programs like "The F Word" to today. He gets louder, sure, but he also seems to get a little less mean. I think the mean streak might be the real guy and he is softening in his old age. I don't begrudge him his success, the best meal I've ever had was at Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's, but I would certainly avoid working for him. It seems young chefs who want to some day hold their own Michelin stars are willing to put up with anything to get access to training and opportunity. I hope the culture of machismo and self destruction in kitchens is changing. Rene Redzeppi spent years at the absolute top of the world and he has been public about how much therapy it took him to overcome the aggression and violence he developed coming up in haute cuisine. I'd like to see more of that, even if it means fewer compelling FX shows detailing severe dysfunction.

This seems to be bullshit, Dusty.

I have no idea who this is, but I ain't clickin' the link to find out. I'm sure they will be mentioned in Beato's channel in an upcoming lament. RIP some random pioneering rock icon. I'm being morbidly sardonic -- watch it be someone I admire or care about.

Or as a friend of mine put it, many decades ago, after telling me a story about a fellow retailer who said he hated the business, but a decade later, he looked like he really loved it. After being asked, he replied sincerely that he did. "Temporary becomes permanent." Then he told me another story about another retailer who always brought his "cousin" to the shows, that was really his mistress.

A very happy birthday to you, Jeffy! Here's to hoping your travels bring you back out east again sometime soon.

Happy Birthday!

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