Knuckledragger

Totally not relevant now. It is with great hesitation that I post this here and not in the HC watches thread.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/arts/design/john-baldessari-art.html

Where do I sign up for my free charred Koala bear?

I was gonna post this isn Slow, but I think it's more appropriate here. TMBG's Flood came out 30 years ago today. After I got past my initial "holy shit am I old" reaction, I reflected upon the first time I heard it. I was in a local record store called Al Bum's (get it) that still sold a lot of vinyl. They were BLARING Istanbul (Not Constantinople) and I, a sullen, disaffected metalhead who had recently branched out into industrial, goth rock (as in Bauhaus) and some proto-grunge (thanks to college radio) was all like "WTF is THIS SHIT?!? It's so HAPPY and MANIC ....can I hear it again?" I didn't get my first CD player until the fall of 1990. The first CD I bought was the Led Zeppelin 4CD boxed set (the first "boxed set" that launched that craze of the 1990s.) It wasn't until early 1991 that I bought Flood on CD. IIRC, I had a copied cassette in the summer of 1990. I was severely depressed that year (as I was throughout high school, anyone who tells you that HS is the best years of your life is stuck in the 1950s) but in spite of/because of that I loved the maniac lunacy of Flood. I got to see TMBG live a couple times in the 1990s. They played UMASS at one point in the early 90s and they played most of Flood. I didn't recognize many of the non-Flood songs. I saw them again in '96 in a club called Lupo's in Rhode Island. That second show was amazing. I remember pogoing like a madman to Anna Ng. Clearly by '96 TMBG were getting sick of Flood. They did super fast versions of the songs they knew the crowd wanted to hear and moved on to other things. At some point maybe 10 years ago (2010 is now a decade ago ...ayep) TMBG played locally and did the entirety of Flood. Sadly, I was not able to be at that show.

Hah, thanks for the birthday wishes! Holy crap am I old. I guess that's why I hang out with you lot. ?

Do any of you own KF2? I've got installed and stumbled through the tutorial. With MicS gone, I can't set up a server for it.

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I played a Normal game as an L6 Zerk, and I was really bad. It took me half the game to remember how to use voice commands and throw weapons. I never figured out how to SELL weapons.

2.1 system with a self-powered woofer.

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Anyone need a big old pile of Buchla? https://www.matrixsynth.com/2019/12/buchla-mother-load-1989-2019.html https://reverb.com/item/30812578-buchla-mother-load-1989-2019 What? Stop looking at me like that. The price is great for that much vintage Don kit.

Birb does not like Tay Tay.

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Unison Research Max 1.

I'm not sure I agree with this, but I appreciate the effort.