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All I know is Idina Menzel sang at work a month ago and co-workers came into the office this week in Wicked costumes like it's Halloween 2.0. Getting confusing adult Frozen vibes all around.

Quite interesting to see the difference between road car and race car. A good portion of the time difference is the tires but certainly not all

Wicked: The Soundtrack by Wicked Movie Cast (2024) https://album.link/i/1772364192 Example: I have not seen the musical or the movie of the musical. But I thought I would check it out. I know the Defying song like most people. I like the music and I thought the cast and performances were good. There are a couple of tracks where it gets a bit shouty. I could see it in a stage production and it may work in the movie as well, where the character is fully committed and belting, but it does not work for me as well as a listening experience. Preferring Cynthia over Ariana performances. I don't know if I will see the movie, but I am not afraid to see it.

From the man who brought us the world's fastest trashcan.

As I mentioned a while back, I've been getting more familiar with the combination of my D200 and 300mm F/4. Taken through my kitchen window, which often results in a hit to the contrast. In this case it wasn't so bad. The same two deer, two days in a row. Quack, quack. A very technically flawed photo, but a rare case where I caught the great blue heron with his wings open. They are giant birds.

Not on the Icelandic news site:

Trifonov taking on American music, classical, jazz, moderism, etc. The talent is obvious, decent sound quality. As you'd expect with the variety of genres, listening to the album straight through can feel clunky. Now

If I buy a place next year that has a garage my first purchase will be another set of wheels. Mainly to put EP semi-slicks on for track duty, but it also means I can dump the summers for all-seasons on the first set of wheels if I need to.

this is why i have 4 sets of tires for 2 cars. seriously under 40 degrees F is death for summer only performance tires. besides which the tires will crack and then you have to throw them out.

I am finding out that driving a sports car with UHP summer tires to work on rainy mornings in the high 30s can wake you up real quick! Traction and ESC interventions work better than coffee. 🙃

Rip Jaaaag Brand identity? I wonder what Jezza will have to say on the matter? At least there's the TWR Supercat to look at in the meantime.

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Sr. Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (1969) https://album.link/i/1440760209 Example: Classic version of a classic. I tend to forget Vivaldi lived during the baroque period with Bach. I think mainly that I hear too many modern recordings that change it too much. But getting back to this 1969 Sr Neville and the Academy, it sounds right, and sounds baroque. It works well when it looks like this outside.

Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light (Live) I'm not a fan of Joni, I'm sorry. She has a beautiful voice, her compositions are very original and personal, and I'm sure she deserves the recognition and following she earned, but for some reason she doesn't speak to me. However this album is something else. Still feels a bit like pretentious music to me, but that band... OMG!!

Complete Concerto Recordings by Martha Argerich & Claudio Abbado (2015 box set) https://album.link/i/1452345247 Example - No way to pic a sample - so here is the ad: Just under 5 hours - includes: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26 (Sergei Prokofiev) Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83 (Maurice Ravel) Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Frédéric Chopin) Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, S. 124 (Franz Liszt) Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83 (Maurice Ravel) Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23, TH 55 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski) Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Ludwig van Beethoven) Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) I am not sure how many would rank at the top of my lists for these works, but all would be very high. The recordings from 1967,1968 are really fun. And I of course have to not spend my time listening to the mixing and mastering differences from DG over the decades.

I would agree - It is - One of the headphones...

Yeah, that is quite sad. We bought a season ticket the winter of 2222/23 so we went there a few times a week. The gap they are filling up in the second picture is indeed the walkway to the lagoon... and those guys are utterly nuts for working so close to the lava

By the blue lagoon.

This is a small one but already causing plenty of damage. This did crack me up from last night: All in Icelandic but on the bottom "It is unlikely that there will be an eruption in November"... from the day before. Then the next piece of news is "eruption started next to Stóra-Skógfell". Here is a view from 9am this morning from the small town I grew up in at the west edge of Reykjavik