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Michel Legrand/Catherine Deneuve/Nini Castelnuove | Umbrellas of Cherbourg soundtrack | vinyl

Zorn | The Dreamers | The Gentle Side | 180g

The Onions issue after 9/11 was also one of the few levelheaded responses so quickly written. Was in downtown Palo Alto today for an errand. Went by the Apple store there (yes, taken with an iPhone)...

Webster | Soulville | Mono | 180g

Best obit yet: Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011 | http://ow.ly/1ych8w

Dueling threads a sign of his influence, but for those that missed it recently... Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

RIP Steve.

And and

The Griffin isn't bad either and been using an older version for years now.

If anyone wants an alternative computer speaker setup, the Joey Roth ceramic speakers are on sale over at Fab for the next two days. $295, down from $495. No idea how they sound. http://fab.com/sale/1270/

So, there was an announcement today, huh?

Also Claireified.

I recently heard the RS2is (or any RS2 version) for the first time. Like the entire Grado line it's difficult to decide what's worth an update/downgrade, but I thought on piano the RS2is had a strange glare compared to a late model RS1s.

In between: Eleni Karaindrou http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XJiTM89RdQ

Newish recommendation: Julianna Barwick

Oldish recommendation: Kate Rusby

Wayne Shorter | Native Dancer

Great photos... HMV, Oxford Street, London, 1960s http://ow.ly/1xYQS5

Crystal Gayle's sci-fi-ish country album We Must Believe in Magic Mad is the captain of Alpha Centauri We must be out of our minds Still we are shipmates bound for tomorrow And everyone here's flying blind

Wait, you keep a backlog?

Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers | 180g