Knuckledragger

Weinheim, Germany.

I'm not sure if this is pro or anti Trump, but I'm pretty sure I just threw up a little.

Feeling drained from my trudge through the rain yesterday. That means I'm not driving to the AAPL store this week, which in turn means I'll be doing my show this Friday (on a fully charged battery.)

Fricken VOTED. It's raining bad metaphors here in scenic western MA. I live in a geographically large (by Masshole standards) but sparsely populated town. In spite of that, everyone and their inbred uncle was on their way to the polling station. I ended up parking half a mile away and trudging my (old, fat, out of shape) ass there and back to vote. I came home soaked and in need of a change of clothes. Taxachusetts isn't even a battleground state. Unless there's a Yankees fan around.

Henry Rollins was the frontman for the hardcore punk band Black Flag. He's also a solo musician, spoken word performer and author (and actor and and and...) He's got what one would term an ...intense personality.

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TR808 Drum Machine train in Berlin.

It turns out that of all the points of failure (Macintop, OWC 4 bay external enclosure, elgato thunderbolt dock) it was the ...USB cable I was using between the dock and the enclosure. I switched to a USB 3.0 cable, even though I'm running at 2.0 speeds. The device end of USB 3.0 is a much bigger and more robust connector. Knock on wood, I've had no random disconnects since switching to it. I'm still toying with the idea of a rack mount NAS at some point. The form factor works really for me, seeing as I have like 10 free rack spaces and zero free desk space.

I swear, one more fuck up with my external drive array and I'm buying this damn thing: https://www.amazon.com/Synology-4bay-RackStation-RS816-Diskless/dp/B01K1JSKC4/ Also, the new Mac Mini looks really good and I'm budgeting for one early next year. Once a few less things are on fire.

Whomever made that chart has not been drinking the same whiskey I have. Bourbon is the only booze I've consumed that made me abusive toward others. 15 or so years ago a female friend of mine who is a lesbian didn't believe me. She fed me a number of Wild Turkey drinks that weekend and apparently at some point I began belligerently pontificating about "bull dykes." That following Sunday she said "yeah, no more bourbon for you ...ever." This is a rule I have stuck to since then. Scotch, OTOH, is fine. I just become a louder, more emphatic version of myself. I'd still drink it upon occasion, by my digestive system rebells at anything other than the smallest sip. Them's the breaks.

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Opera Consonance M15-20 speakers - Line Magnetic Audio 218-IA integrated amp - Amadeus Well Tempered Labs turntable with TLC WTL mm cartridge - Dynavector DV75 MK 4 phono stage - Pro-ject Pre Box S2 DAC with MQA decoding - Cardas cables and interconnects

This is very local to me, but the manager of the club where I used to do lights for a decade died recently. https://www.masslive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/10/donal_rooke_northampton_music.html Don was one of the sane adults I talked to in the sea of drunken, tripping children that was the mid 00s drum n bass and house music scene. The club we worked in a seedy place, but I really enjoyed talking to him and some of the other elder staff. They'd seen enough insanity and still had appreciation for the music that it was an inspiration for me to put up with as much shit as I did and not go bonkers.

Cat wanders on to the runway at a fashion show in Istanbul. Proceeds to clean its butt.

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https://cheezburger.com/6887173/tumblr-user-runs-the-math-on-the-exact-day-ice-cube-was-talking-about

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/dead-brothel-owner-dennis-hof-will-win-nevada-election-says-manager Take that, Florida!

. o O At least they didn't call it a "gash."

So the YouTubes went down for an hour or so yesterday and I missed the whole thing. I redid my upstairs audio setup a month or so ago and I haven't done any critical listening with it. Naturally I queued up a couple Biosphere albums. Substrata (1997, but this is the 2017 web release). Cirque (2000 version, I don't have the web re-issue yet.) The former is arguably the greatest ambient album in the world, and the latter is no slouch. Cirque is really, really good. Substrata is ...transcendent. It's unlike anything before or after it. I'm actually not huge on 2002's Shenzhou. It's full of weird classical music samples that get old quickly. That said, iTunes played it next and I bothered to listen to the whole thing. I'll say this, the not-annoying parts of the album are actually quite good and require some effort on the part of the listener to be appreciated. That's not really surprising, given the artist in question.

The Quabbin Reservoir near Amherst, MA, AKA about 15 minutes from where I am now.

The lyrics to "Peace Sells" are gonna need a rewrite. Precipice Lake, Sequoia National Park, California.