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Marissa Nadler - s/t This album's sitting on Pitchfork's "Overlooked Records 2011" list. The description was intriguing, and finding her on Bandcamp pretty much guaranteed that I'd buy it. $5 for FLAC, or more if you're feeling generous. Also like the backstory to this album, funded by fans through Kickstarter. Actually the kickstarter page is still open and a direct $35 donation gets you an autographed CD, vinyl, and the download. <3 artists that embrace the real 'net.

Well there is the literal pissing match to consider.

Discovered Beardyman after Aardvark Boule posted a short clip in the slower forum quite a while back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IUbET5a0cE Finally got around to watching a full hour long performance from 2009 professionally shot and posted to Youtube. To borrow from the tone of the thing, it's fucking sick.

Suggestions for you: "Will study for food" "Starving Multiple PHD Holder" "I'm the brownest person out here"

Starting to get the Fall schedule of shows produced by FSU's student union. Much love to the unwashed activities fee paying masses and to whoever's in charge of spending that money to bring underrated affordable bands that I've lived with and loved but have never seen live. Or in one case I have, Tim Kasher is coming in September. I saw him with his band Cursive in the early 00's, counts among my favorite shows simply for the totally dissonant improvised cover of Milkshake (brings all the boys to the yard, yeah that one).

Get yourself a nice sleeping bag and a dog and you can join the hordes of Berkeley's homeless. Maybe even make a small profit from panhandling.

SNL: What Is Burn Notice? Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (UK) has hit Netflix streaming. I'd found a few downloads a while back but sources were few so I'd never caught the whole run. Such a good show.

Currently airing in the UK, which I'm sure has exclusive first rights. After the run's over I'd imagine it will start hitting iTunes/Netflix/BBC America. I think 6 months later is the norm.

Ah yes, forgot that the specials actually kicked off the last series. I checked the first January episode. I love when Top Gear is going because it makes me want to play Forza, which at other times I tend to forget. Went immediately after I saw the episode and bought the newer car pack with the new McLaren. Forgot to switch on the traction control since I rarely use it in Forza, they accurately modeled the fact the the thing is so heavily tuned that it will break the wheels loose constantly without the TCS on. Jeremy only talked about how to do it, there's a reason he never did. Once I had that figured I did a couple nice rounds on the Nurburgring. Can't wait for the upcoming Forza 4. Full Top Gear UK involvement and the test track will be included.

Well I'm not eating it right now but I was just thinking about Skipper's Smokehouse since I'm headed to Tampa after work today. Went to their website to check the music for this weekend and realized that they were featured on the new gimpy "Man v. Food Nation" show. The host no longer eats himself stupid for our enjoyment but rather makes other people eat while he yells at them. He didn't do a challenge at Skipper's just a feature on their gator dishes.

Seconded on Bioshock, or either of the Dead Space games. Actually, wouldn't be a bad idea to just go for a Call of Duty game, Black Ops being the most recent. Can't think of any situation where it's more crucial to identify spatial cues than in the Nazi Zombie mode. Added benefit that it's drop-in style play, minimal experience required to really get into the thick of it. Or one more: Crysis 2. Cutting edge in every possible way, including the most incredible 3D if you've got a capable tv or monitor. If you just want one and you don't care so much about gameplay, might as well go for the prettiest techiest thing out there.

Just checked, series 16 doesn't seem to have a "coming up" segment. Maybe you saw a trailer online (or one of Grahame's above, if your attention span is that short )

Do they correctly interpret that hateful sound that May makes when he says "The Germans". Oh wait, it's German, it all sounds hateful. New episode was good. Not much more to say about it.

Just finished the finale of Star Trek: TNG. That's checked off the list finally. I think The Wire will be next, after a short break for other time wasting persuits

Every Thursday I deliver to 'Historic Quincy Florida", which I'd always suspected had quite a rich and oddball past. Finally got inspired to Wiki it and do some further reading. Cliffs notes version: Originally developed in 1828 around a virginia/cuban seed hybrid tobacco crop. Quincy is on the top of a series of rolling hills that are a totally unique Florida agriculture site. Continued prosperity until the war, slow economic recovery until a banker made loans to sharecroppers to invest in Coca-Cola early in the 1900's, producing a solid handful of millionaires to reinvest in downtown Quincy. In 1950 it became a perfect site for shade grown wrapper leaf tobacco, until 1977 when the foreign options took over. Mushrooms were produced there until a decade ago, and the tomato farms just went through massive layoffs a few years ago. Current median family income: $31000. The courthouse was the site of frequent hangings, so of course they sell it as haunted, and what the hell, the theater's haunted too. Currently at the theater there are posters for upcoming productions of The Music Man and Annie Get Your Gun. Nice collection of antebellum homes near downtown, including one converted to a B&B and one originally commissioned as a pre-war hangout for the mega-rich, also run as a B&B. This area is still beautifully maintained and quite stunning. The rest of the town is nearly post-apocalyptic, including downtown. The one consistently open downtown shop is a donut joint that rivals Britt's. Opens at 5 AM, closes when the last donut sells. Huge homeless population, centered around their three liquor stores. One of them is located in a neighborhood and maintains a shaded and fenced lot next door for them. Surprisingly there is almost no on-premise drinking in this town, unless you count the aforementioned shaded lot. One notable resident, The Lady Chablis, who was featured in the novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and later played herself in the film. Such a perfect place for a 60 y/o infamous southern queen, living it out in a tobacco baron's home. Also realized that I missed 'Quincyfest', the yearly Blues and BBQ deal held every May. Next year I'm definitely going.

So you've narrowly escaped serious injury and only 'hope' that you won't repeat your mistake? By Wayne logic you need to be out researching trebuches. Or you could always talk to our mutual (non headphone related) friend, the high-tech software-guided RC aircraft master. Fly him down to set you up a plane with a preset flight path that will regularly auto-engage and scare off the birds in problem areas. Now that he develops for a national security firm he can probably even find you a few bird-grade guided missiles.

From "Rainbow City" to an actual gay street fair. I'm hoping you did something to reassure your date that you liked her.

I'd imagine that all the best Dominatricii are working near you.

Goodbye private school tuitions... hello uber-dacses.

Went to my company fishing trip, left out of Jacksonville and hit a bunch of spots mostly based around old ships and other reefs. Not normally my favorite thing, fishing. I embraced my redneck trucker side and got-er-done (I heard that phrase sans-irony a few times today). Pulled up a half dozen common Seabass, an ancient 8" pinfish, and a 2' atlantic shark. Not expecting the shark to be great eating but I had a gorgeous mangrove snapper that would have been the catch of the day get torn up by two other sharks before I got it in the boat. I wasn't feeling particularly generous. Also had two perfect red snappers but they're restricted. First one I hooked, the captain warned me before we could even see the fish... "You're not going to like this".

Haven't bought but I've seen. Can secure and ship if needed.

Hey nice, got rewarded with the ultimate Florida summer treat, a late evening serious rainstorm. I guess it all balances out with the AC situation, it gets a decent break tonight.

Came home after a 100+ degree day, with a 116 heat index. Cranked the AC down much lower than I normally do, celebrating with a Great Divide Hibernation Ale (Nov 2009 bottling date). Might follow with a Cigar City Warmer Winter Winter Warmer. None of this is going to make my tomorrow an especially nice time, but fuck it.

Evil Twin Disco Beer. Meh. Decent IPA but they threw it in a chardonnay barrel and killed what would have been a triple IPA bitterness. Still bitter but more like an excessively dry hopped flavor. $9.50 for a 12oz bottle, so WTF? EDIT: Just read the Ratebeer description and realized that it's blended with chardonnay (10% thereof), not barreled. Weird. Still tasting slowly. It really is like a disappointing Pliny, halfway between the elder and the younger but so frustratingly cut with something that doesn't belong.

Yearly visit with an old fave: Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999) There were a couple years where I lived & breathed this record. Totally forgot about the last verse of the whole thing: