Dusty Chalk

Happy birthday! (party favour noise and hat)

The rest of the albums range from completely abstract and experimental to straight ahead almost-jazz.

I tend to use this adage in reverse. If it’s good as a latte, it’s good as coffee plus creamer (I asked for almond milk lattes, so I cream with various nut milks). Besides, I don’t need it to be steamed milk hot. But that’s just me, I’m not trying to change anyone else’s mind. Please continue to enjoy your little hearts in your foam. They’re cute. ? So...yeah, I’m a French press guy, too. I tend towards French and espresso roasts.

Eye of Every Storm is a stone cold classic.

Not today, but this week, I started learning JSP. Didn't realize that was something different than Javascript (which run on the browser), but rather, Java Server Pages (which run on the server). Somehow, I've managed to spend most of my career avoiding all but the most trivial GUI work. (I usually do backend work. [cue Steve]) And I already was told I could call myself an expert once I learned how to do Decorators. I think she was being sarcastic, but who cares, the guys who usually do the GUI work are too busy trying to upgrade all the code from Java7 to Java8, and I'm pretty sure I can get it all done in a couple days. So...pride.

Disen Gage, Libertage -- egad, this is superb. It's like if you took King Crimson's scat-based improvs, and made music out of them. Definitely listening to the rest of their catalog. https://disengage.bandcamp.com/album/libertage

That does look tasty.

Tangerine Dream Classic Extensions—very subtly remixed Tangerine Dream—it’s quaffably delicious! I’m already on my second.

Daw! I would hug him and cuddle him and call him Lovecraft.

Mt. Mountain, Dust -- so good. I've listened -- and liked, and probably buying -- their entire catalog, but Dust is their masterpiece. It's like Tool on quaaludes, with a bit of Desert Sessions thrown in. https://mtmountain.bandcamp.com/album/dust

I was listening to Tidal’s Modern Psychedelic playlist, and their track, “Livin’ a Lie” from their album, Seeing Other People , stood out. I need to check them out further. Think I’ll start with that one. Thanks for the indirect rec. In the meantime, been listening to the Tool catalogue. I forgot how annoying their filler / studio wankery can be. Some, deliberately so.

So...Florida? And: yes. Although a foot above sea level might be fucked sooner than the mountains of West Virginia, if you can believe that.

Cheeze (some aged sharp cheddar something -- 12 year, I think) and triscuits

Shoegazer

Just got to the part about day larks and night owls, and how circadian rhythms are hereditary but not inherited and that definitely rings true. Also explains why moving my schedule back to early is a constant struggle. I should go to bed.

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David Berman, singer/songwriter of indie band Silver Jews, dead way too young at 52.

This video makes no sense. Kind of like a Storm Thorgerson album cover come to life.

Hey, don't you ever besmirch Billy Joel... Or do. Do what you want what you really really want... Yeah, the use of the Spice Girls music cue was just as brilliant. Even if you hate the Spice Girls. In fact, especially if you hate the Spice Girls.

And now I am reading it, too. I am definitely this book's target market. A lot is reminiscent of things I knew and thought (my theory has always been that dreams are the brain "freewheeling" -- I.E. unthrottled, which is very similar to how he describes it in the Joe Rogan interview; alcohol and most other drugs including sleeping pills are bad for sleep...), so I will read and learn.

So how did we miss new Charlatans?!?!? Comeback songs aren't usually this good, neither. The 80s are still alive and well.

So great -- I go back and listen to those 8 albums every once in a while, but that one stands out.

Weird, I can't chat no more.