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Giving Sophie a “Taste of Marin” Brunch send off, so She had Which was a perfect opportunity to add Millionaires Bacon ( to share) Joanne & I shared Dungeness Hash / Pacifica Salad Yum!

Nice! I ate a lot of horrible crap in Vegas, as one does. Did have a superb Tomahawk ribeye at Jean-Georges Steakhouse -- one of the best pieces of meat I can remember, and I've seen a few. Experience slightly tarnished by the 500% markups on the wine list. Stuck to cocktails.

Of course it's a bloke. No woman would be so stupid. ?

I was thinking about my small, messy CD/SACD/DVD/Blu-ray library and stumbled across this upcoming media format: https://news.panasonic.com/global/stories/2017/49438.html Looks like Sony and Panasonic have been working on yet another optical standard: Archival Disc. They don't plan to sell them in the consumer market, but anyone who lived through the 90s is going to get déja vu reading this article... the same ambition, the same complex, expensive jukebox solutions, the same media/library customers...

Mansun – Six It's strange I haven't ever listened to this album, or its predecessor, Attack of the Grey Lantern seriously (i.e., not while distracted at work)... I have the US versions, which have rearranged and substitute tracks compared to the UK releases. Fantastic Brit-rock for people with eclectic pop tastes. Complexly layered, passionately performed, and brilliantly composed, but ear candy nonetheless.

Yay, found the problem. Tomorrow will be listening day!

Now this ^. Just one track in, but I already know I'll like it.

First Thanksgiving course created by chef Peter, Beef Wellington ala Gordon Ramsay

I was in an extended discussion with a friend of mine tonight (a few of you will know him as Bludvessel) about how modern pop music makes me ill. We covered some of the studio tricks used on things like Taylor Swift's dance pop and Gabrielle's "Dreams" (don't look it up) and how they make me QUESTION MY VERY WILL TO KEEP ON LIVING. We then moved on to pop music that I actually like. Oddly (and by that, I mean "not odd in the slightest") KSIA came up. I have ...strip mined YouTube and P2P for live KISA. There is precious little. There are a few music videos, some official some not. I've never seen this one before: Dunno if I remotely GAF about the video, but the song is one of my favorite by KISA. I mostly prefer the original incarnation of KISA with Sarah P on vox, but there's a lot of material on the second album with Jessica Bell singing that's basically as good as synthpop gets. My favorite touch is the acoustic phone that rings briefly during the breakdown. While we're on the subject of KSIA, this is the song that got me into them way back when:

Hole in the wall, SF Chinatown fare

Strip out all the video BS and you have a moderately decent new Smashing Pumpkins song, which is better than nothing.

I believe I posted that whole concert somewhere. So great. Some randoms that came up at DSW last night:

It has an energy for sure! Speaking of which, YouTube served this up tonight. They get me.

I can't imagine that wavering horn riff being anything but annoying, yet they've managed the My Bloody Valentine thing -- repeat it until it becomes addictive as all...

Hope he's wrong.

I meant this model:)...hadn't heard any rumors or anything... Probably not a good choice if you have cats...

hadn't even heard of these 'til today...