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They originally said they'd sell without the headphones to any of us who know what we're doing. It's bundled with headphones so that they can have some control over a base level of headphone quality. If you're interested drop them a line and see what they can do.

Trailer Park Boys, now streaming on Netflix. if you haven't seen it give it a shot. was only a year ago that I got all the dvd's but it's already entirely worth a rewatch.

Speaking of mathy post-rock and beastly drummers, the biggest band still playing the game, Battles, seem to have given it up. Their new song is a whole other thing. I think I'm going to like this album when it hits (June release date).

Helioscope - Vessels. I love me some mathy post-rockian endeavors especially if the drummer is a fucking beast. This one is.

Erm, not like that. NTTAWWT. Here's your opening though, if you've been waiting.

Oh and sorry about no updates yesterday. I rely on Wi-fi and there was none at CCB. I made some calls though, and I think those people gathered easily that I was drunk. I arrived a bit late, got a wristband with about 10 left till they'd given out a full 1000 (they raised it from 750 realizing that almost no-one would be buying all 4 bottles they'd allotted. Then you get the freaks like me.) So uh, yeah after that it was a quick realization that lots of small batch beer was disappearing fast. The race was on, and I definitely won.

Indeed it was an awesome day (and I was very drunk). So much rare beer on hand, including Three Floyd's Topless Wytch (Dreadnaught was sold out by the time I got there), Founder's Breakfast Stout, Centennial IPA, and a Founders barleywine, all very good and unobtanium in FL. None of those were on the published list since they sorta can't publish those. Ended up with pretty much exactly what I needed for bottles, a pile for Mike, and enough for 1 consumed per month and another 3 to put aside for flights in a few years. (Going to try for 5, 7 , and 10 year flights. Help will of course be quite necessary so look for that at MOA Pt. V or so. Glad that Raffy came out. As the Holy Bible teaches us, "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." The God of Head-case was surely present, although I think he got more trashed than I did.

Very Very Interesting. I'll have a couple bottles of smaller CCB limited releases on hand to make sure I get in on that. Also just added to the tap list: White Oak Patio Tools. As I've commented before, White Oak Jai Alai IPA is pretty awesome, but they've only made small batches and the distributor really hoarded them. I don't know where they went but they never hit the market. Patio Tools is the yearly St Patty's Dry Irish Stout (and if you say the name out loud a few times it makes sense). I have no way to imagine what this beer will taste like with the White Oak addition, and I like that feeling.

That 22kpbs rate is because of comcast's speed boost feature. my normal download is about 15. I think that the boost is for the first 20 mb of each download. just don't get me started on the 250gb per month download limit. I've hit 240 twice without realizing how close I'd gotten till I paid the bill. Damn you BBC hd documentaries.

Just wanted to post what you're all missing: Hey look California... our breweries know how to throw a party! Team FL always does that best. As far as bottles... NO BOTTLES FOR YOU! Probably. Mike gets bottles even though he can't come to the party. But that's because he's OGFL and I can't leave him behind.

Southern Tier Choklat. Second bottle I've had of this, I liked the first one a lot more for some reason. Realizing now how thin the body actually is, and that this thing isn't bottle conditioned. Feh.

Ok so I'm basically putting it away until the LP hits. I did the same with In Rainbows, wanted my fresh slab of vinyl to actually be fresh.

It's your own bottle, knock yourself out buddy. Me, 3rd cup of coffee trying to get my ass in gear and get some stuff done today. Three day weekends can be exhausting....

I've had some pretty nasty American ginger beer, I distinctly remember one with a cowboy label that made everything taste like ginger for about a week. Used to live by a deli with a well stocked soda selection, the family that owned the place would take a road trip every year and bring back a trailer full of sodas from small producers. Kind of set me up perfectly for the craft beer movement. I gained a willingness to try anything in the soda case, which meant I drank a lot of swill. I even tried the Jones Soda Thanksgiving Dinner pack. Turkey & Gravy and the Brussel Sprout soda were pretty much the low point. Anyway, actual favorites to come from that were the Jamaican ginger beers. I know I had a Barritt's somewhere along the way too, and liked it. Moxie is fun, almost an addictive acquired taste. I loved all those different takes on soda, not the oversweetened mess we know. Of course I found some pretty good takes on the American style sodas as well, like Tommyknocker Almond Cream. Best mixed drink I ever had was that with Wild Turkey 101. I think I've plugged it before but if you can find Sprecher's Ginger Soda it's pretty awesome. Really light on the ginger flavor but with a nice silent kick of gingery spice at the end.

Last night had a dinner of homemade bread (no-knead dough with flax seed fermented since Monday) and Chimay cheese. Popped a St. Feullien/Green Flash Biere de L'Amitie, and an Oerbier Reserva 09. Due to the yeasty overload we switched to Old Rip soon after.

I think my friend nailed my own feelings last night when I had him watch the pilot of Portlandia. His comment, "I really want to hurt these people". Every character deserves a good punch in the face.

OK, what I'm hearing as experimental (by Radiohead standards), is the stripped back but very complex sound. What took them so long in the recording of this album was obviously doing more tinkering than ever with tiny details. This thing was built in samples, an electronic album engineered to sound like a Radiohead remix.

Wow. Experimental is right, and very very good. I have nothing intelligent to add at this moment but must say that my fake surround plugin for Foobar did some pretty awesome things to this album. Add to that the Milkdrop visualizations and that was one short strange trip. I'll be repeating it often.

Yay, downloading now. Will be blasting on my speakers in minutes .

I will not consider the possibility of cancellation! I mean, it's on IFC ferchrissake, why would they cancel it? It has managed to become my favorite thing on TV. Sorry Top Gear.

I was going to say that but I'm not exactly sure what I'd take out. I love HTTT, just not as an album.

In Rainbows was two 12's at 45RPM, and it was 42 minutes long which is totally acceptable by my "favorite album" standards. Not that I think it was perfect, just that all of my actual favorites are fairly succinct and lack filler. Hail to the Thief was a chunky 56 minutes which nulls and voids your point about short recent albums anyway. That said, I'm expecting this album to be heavily experimental. Based on the amount of time they've been recording the damn thing and some comments in interviews about how well they all got along this time out... makes me think that they really dug in and found something new to say. Either that or they've all gotten old and can't be bothered to argue for change anymore.

Chances are they'll do a standard CD release later, much like In Rainbows. For that they did a similarly quick announcement/online release schedule, with the $80 discbox as the only physical version announced. A few months later there was a CD release available at normal prices and locations.

New album being digitally released (in WAV, if you like) on Saturday! Just pre-ordered the $53 2-lp set, which won't ship till May but includes a WAV download. Super excited to hear the new material. http://www.thekingoflimbs.com/

Especially full of fail is the paragraph about compression and FLAC not fixing it. Who the hell ever said it did? I'm all about getting the word out about loudness but that just made him look like a total moron.