Knuckledragger

Ireland is not exactly known for its ambient musicians, but Dublin's Mick Chillage stands toe to toe with his German and Scandinavian counterparts. When I first his his downtempo album Tales from the Igloo album in late 2010, I was immediately captivated. The whole album is pretty stellar, but the closing track, a re-interpretation of John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 theme really grabbed me. I've played it out a few times and always a few people recognize it, but aren't sure what it is. I tracked him down on Facebook, and it turns out he's a pretty cool cat. He regularly posts links to new projects he's working on. Most of the music he makes these days is decidedly more ambient than downtempo. A couple of years ago, Mick released an album on the late, great Pete Namlook's label Fax +49-69/450464 called FAXology. "Returning Home," the closing track from it is a bit of a slow burner (as ambient music is wont to be), but the payoff is damn well worth it. Mick's a deft synth programmer, but he also has an uncanny sense of melody. Returning Home is one of the best thing's he written. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bceTjk1JLA

Sony ups the WTF factor once again.

We take your 4-8-8-4 steam train and turn it into a mag-lev bullet.

I should note that during this past week, WAMH upgraded to a "Pro" account on Mixlr, so the sound quality should be better.

Sup Heads? My show is once again on the air. WAMH's new web streaming page is right here. My show's website is updated, as well.

Holy crap, 1Password 4.0 is out. It's a major change from 3.X. I am ...unsure what I think of it thus far.

^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2GcVxy3jRA The new WAMH studio. Photos not by me.

Thanks for the kind words, folks. After going through the meat grinding known as the US health care system yesterday, it looks like what I have is a very bad allergic reaction. To what exactly, they're still not sure. I'm considerably better today, but I still do bear a passing resemblance to Two-Face.

No time for a real Slow post, so here's a photo of an Armenian woman with her AKM, taken in 1990. Alternate version:

Woke up yesterday with an eye that was red an itchy. Today it's swollen and I can barely see. I called my doctor and they're suggesting I go to an eye doctor that is really fucking far away. I'm not sure I have enough vision to drive.

...which you

Deepak! I don't have a Deepak-appropriate smiley or macro.

I've missed a bunch of birthdays recently.