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  1. Two more then I'm jumping back to the future. Besides the collections are going South quickly. I think Mikey is on to something. I never hear it mentioned, but was there a far lesser FM killed the more regional AM star? Dusty, the democratization seems a next step (and seemingly could have even reversed the personal branding jump). As aging and personal bias intertwined here, I'll also include a shot of a vehicle I heard many of these songs in - the '74 Plymouth Road Runner. Memory is tricky, but I'm pretty sure everything sounded better on it than my current 2011 Kia Optima (Running-It-Into-the-Ground Edition).
  2. I love audiobooks read by the author.
  3. Reviewing the end. The 21st Century Record Player
  4. Keeping the K-tel-like life going. Was the 70s the last relatively innocent point before personal branding really took off or I am confusing personal aging with society’s march?
  5. blessingx

    Succession

    Is search broken or after a season and a half has there really been no mention of Succession? Anyone else digging it?
  6. This wins for best listening chair. "John Holliday Perry started diving at a time that he called a few years B.C., Before Cousteau developed the aqualung. He built most of the submarines for the James Bond movie Thunderball, and kept a few for his own use on a private island in the Bahamas. At right is his shark hunter which he used to access a private underwater habitat in 1990. The house was about 30 ft down, and entered through an opening on the floor. He liked to spend time down there listening to Brahms, Beethoven, and Belafonte, while watching the fish swim by. RIP John, an American original."
  7. Millions of them too.
  8. There are a million of them, but this one may be in high res! https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Love-Songs-Various-artists/dp/B07LFLLBJX/ref=mp_s_a_1_16?keywords=greatest+70s+love+songs&qid=1568776539&sr=8-16
  9. Bad Merlot, a giant chocolate chip cookie and...
  10. Can I pay an extra $5 to get Neil Young to stop talking about compression?
  11. Bon Iver - i,i
  12. The Sweetest Punch: The New Songs of Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach arranged by Bill Frisell. How did I not know there was a shadow Painted by Memory? And starting Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan's Small Town.
  13. Rufus' Vibrate, The Best Of
  14. Photographers take care of yourselves! Charlie Cole, Photojournalist Behind Tank Man Photo*, Dies at 64 * Also “aficionado of barbecue, bourbon and the blues.”
  15. Ah, man.
  16. Wonder what Apple now having a $199 Watch will do to FitBit, etc., competitors?
  17. And another biggie, Robert Frank is dead at 94. “He believed that photojournalism oversimplified the world, mimicking, as he put it, ‘those goddamned stories with a beginning and an end.’”
  18. blessingx

    Deals

    Should anyone be interested in Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening by David Hendy, the ebook is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon, Apple, Google, etc.
  19. Thanks. I hadn’t seen that. One last link... https://archive.org/details/TheLivesOfHarryLime or http://www.oldradioworld.com/shows/Lives_of_Harry_Lime.php
  20. Coincidentally the below was published recently. I know I’ve said it before, but The Third Man is my favorite movie-movie. https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2019/sep/05/the-third-man-behind-the-scenes-film-noir-in-pictures
  21. As an opposite to the Sigma above, love shooting with the m240, though AF would have certainly produced more keepers here. A couple shots from yesterday paired with the Voigtländer 50 f/1.5 Nokton. Basic edits in Capture One, Technical Pan (which I’m starting to really like) applied in Exposure, then tweaked in Snapseed for mobile.
  22. More commentary please.
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