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Was (Not Was) vocalist Hillard 'Sweet Pea' Atkinson dies aged 74 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52571088

^ Saw Sweet play the album in full a few years ago. Was fun. Molly Payton | Mess

Later that night

Finished out the final season of Baskets (Hulu).

Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation in 5 Minutes

^ Water sports and double fisting in the same post! 😉 Just quoting a few lines, cause they're funny in hindsight (like going back to early iPod reviews), linked off the above Hodinkee article. "The Apple Watch is an incredible piece of engineering, no doubt. It is still not as cool as a mechanical watch, to real people." Ouch. "In the same way those who publicly wore bluetooth headsets five years ago and those who wore Google Glass one year ago, will smartwatches ever become a thing that people genuinely want?" "Imagine a man who grew up in the middle class, went to a decent school, got an okay job, lives in a nice apartment in some metropolitan town, maybe drives a German car and occasionally splurges on something nice for himself. Do you see him wearing the Apple Watch? I don't."

Cale-Eno Wrong Way Up

On the Apple Watch front, Hodinkee just did their five year retrospective. "I’ve never seen our audience, meager as it was half a decade ago, any angrier than it was on April 24, 2015." https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/apple-watch-fifth-anniversary

Continuing the great Mrs. America. Also running through the really fun Everything's Gonna Be Okay (Hulu).

Yes, last night. It’s nice. Thanks for suggesting. Looked at many, many models last night including some beautiful Sinns and Christopher Wards. Just wished I never saw that cursed Nomos Club Campus neomatik 39 midnight blue.

Saturday morning hangover music

Yeah, no interested in it for the wrist, but came across on a Watchuseek private sale and was surprised at the cross branding and I was drunk posting.

So much to learn. So there’s a big Blue Note - Casio shared audience?

Rumors are getting louder. BLOOMBERG REPORTS ARM MACS COMING NEXT YEAR https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/23/bloomberg-arm-macs

Anyone remember who said The Eagles effectively birthed the LA punk scene? It gave a lot of people something to hate. Google is coming up empty.

Last of my Mac lovefest. The songs are so good even mediocre bands and cheesy videos can't get in their way.

I loved listening to so many of the songs of those two albums before I even knew the albums existed. And when I tried years later to avoid the nostalgia of my childhood music, Fleetwood Mac always got an exception. I'm not sure if pop music can become timeless, but if Pet Sounds, Blue, etc. does, these aren't far behind in my book.

First two episodes of Mrs. America on Hulu. Pretty interesting POV and really good overall.

Peter Beard, a New York photographer, artist and naturalist to whom the word “wild” was roundly applied, both for his death-defying photographs of African wildlife and for his own much-publicized days — decades, really — as an amorous, bibulous, pharmaceutically inclined man about town, was found dead in the woods on Sunday, almost three weeks after he disappeared from his home in Montauk on the East End of Long Island. He was 82. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/arts/peter-beard-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare His well-documented personal life—Beard’s image should probably reside in the dictionary next to the word “dashing” (and perhaps also near “shambolic”)—likely spelled the end of a number of marriages, including some of his own. (Beard was married to Mary "Minnie" Cushing and, later, the model Cheryl Tiegs before marrying Nejma Khanum, the daughter of an African diplomat, in 1986; she and Beard have a daughter, Zara.) He and Truman Capote traipsed across America with the Rolling Stones on their Exile On Main Streettour in 1972; he was close with Jacqueline Onassis and generations of Kennedys (and had a long relationship with Onassis’s sister Lee Radziwill) and was a fixture at Studio 54. In addition to solo shows at the International Center of Photography in New York and the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, among others, he often bartered his work to pay bar tabs around Montauk and to settle bets with friends. https://www.vogue.com/article/peter-beard-tribute-remembering-the-wildlife-and-fashion-photographer/amp

Makes sense. And if you’re satisfied and stop there, I guess there’s no second, so no first. Showed Melissa the Nomos Glashütte Club Campus neomatik and she fell in love. Showed her the price and the fling was short-lived.

Thanks much all four of you. The suggestions are definitely along my preferred path. IWC came into play when researching Flieger originals and they definitely have some nice models and a Max Bill would have already been ordered if the model I liked had sapphire crystal (the Form A may still). Nomos' are beautiful. Oris wasn't considered, but will now. I was even looking at watches popular with nurses (quickly taking pulse). I know how ridiculous it sounds to be discussing historical designs like Flieger or Bauhaus to say the following... but, I suspect the big driving force is I don't care enough about horological history to give it much weight if it comes in conflict against modern, information Design. Course that's an if. Probably why I drift towards pilot watches. Maybe why I like some newish microbrands over many standards. But I'd take a balanced, bold font over a historically accurate choice. Glance. Time. Thus not the position of the moon or how long I've been underwater or recording laps around the racetrack. So yeah, not complicated. And like all things I'm just talking about my preferences for this choice. Plenty of watches I can admire through the lens of timekeeping history or for other uses or as part of a collection. So further answering the above questions. I'd like it to last and an automatic. Would like to keep it near or under $1K new or used (so many nice choices 3x and above). Last analog watch was 44mm and I thought much too big, so around 40mm give and take on other priorities. White or black dial with opposite for indicators. A splash of color would be fine properly applied. Anything with three or more fonts on its face should probably be eliminated, but surprise me. I'm a sucker for a display back (it doesn't get in the way of reading time), but not essential. Generally like a sweeping second hand so appropriate movement. I'll probably replace any strap with a black rubber/silicone one for practical purposes. And directly relating to all the above, this is that hunt for single everyday watch, not part of a collection, with one big caveat - it will be worn with and without an Apple Watch on the other wrist. This for time. Apple Watch for other data (calendaring, maps, messages, etc.). So a single everyday watch as sometimes part of two everyday watches. I don't know how common this is, but wanted to mention. Finally, I've seen here and elsewhere people tend to move through Fliegers, Max Bills, etc. The various models seem to be a lot of peoples first "serious watches." Part of this could be collection building, but any comments on that? Man, thanks much for the time you've already spent thinking about my earlier post and other choices to consider. Any other comments/suggestions are also appreciated.

The Ancient Mariner Big Read https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/1 More info at... All alone online: Iggy Pop and Jeremy Irons lead mass Ancient Mariner reading https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/18/all-alone-online-iggy-pop-and-jeremy-irons-lead-mass-ancient-mariner-reading?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Now early morning covers of Prine