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John Foxx, with and without Louis Gordon, the Maths, and the Belbury Circle. Synthpop heaven!

Cheers. I vaguely remember seeing it way back when, but can’t be sure. Revisit or not, it was still a nice watch.

Hey, @acidbasement, did you watch this? I think he mentions 70,000 Tons of Metal, though not by name. Knucks, thanks for posting this. He's such a great storyteller, a very enjoyable listen, even with the weird edits.

Hey, @Knuckledragger, have you heard this version of Karmacoma before? I quite like it, it's a nice low key number to open a live set with, sort of like Talking Heads did with Psycho Killer in Stop Making Sense. Except with more tabla (I think that's the word for all that percussion).

Just found out Jessica -- a manager at the Tower Records I would most frequently go to, and with whom I had a lot musically in common (she was a huge fan of Meat Beat Manifesto/Jack Dangers and a lot of synth pop and industrial), and who was gregarious and vivacious and full of life and ...okay, yeah, I had a small crush on her -- passed away from a very aggressive form of colon cancer at the ridiculous age of 42. https://www.dailyitem.com/news/campus-theatre-manager-jessica-paquin-dies-following-battle-with-cancer/article_b64c1964-0490-11e9-86b3-d7aaf6f7567d.html?fbclid=IwAR3Q4R4qc9wclf5-mlxKZjiweny3sdxNCIOKpdUGjpr5-qBymTS0ip_0TK4 FUCK CANCER.

The first thing I noticed was the lack of a human shaped outline in the passenger seat, so I was about to start yelling, "WHAT DID YOU DO WITH..." and then it dawned on me...

Even yet still more comfort food -- Chinese edition -- spring rolls, steamed dumplings, cold sesame noodle, hot'n'sour soup, moo goo Gai pan, chicken with garlic sauce (not all at once, though) Also, been eating a lot of oatmeal as my midnight snack lately -- went through an entire box of pumpkin spice oatmeal that I found while cleaning...

Keith Jarrett, The Sun Bear Concerts on Tidal. Easily my favourite concerts of his. I could listen to this box set on repeat...and have -- it fits nicely into a 6 disc changer. It's 5 nights across 6 disks, and since this is the 21st century, I've resequenced them into chronological order.

Jon Lord had the greatest organ tone in all of rock'n'roll.

Ah, okay, it's the not touching thing? Yeah, that is something that is unique to this instrument. It has to do with the way it's designed -- you control it by making small changes in electromagnetic waves around it. By its very nature, you can't touch it. By the way, it's not digital -- it was invented back in 1919. It's only very recently that they've been able to add sufficient tracking to use it as a MIDI controller, but it's still mostly played in the analog realm.

PSA -- I wonder if this is the reason for my apartment complex's plumbing problems...

Not sure why you have trouble understanding it as an instrument -- it is monophonic -- like most every wind and brass instrument -- and it isn't fretted or stopped -- like a guitar or saxophone, more like a violin, cello or slide whistle -- and it has a purity of sound that I rather enjoy. (I have a friend who went to Bob Moog's workshop and built her own, and she did an extra careful job and it was voiced like a Minimoog -- it was delicious. I haven't heard another that sounded quite like it. Most of the recordings I've heard didn't have the midrange body that this one had. It was thick and girthy. That said, I still really do like the sound of any and all synthesizers, including the theremin. Me: Chiu, complete Prokofiev solo piano music or whatever it's called Damn, I love this stuff. Such a beautiful sense of melody harmony and dissonance. I need to write more dissonance.

More listening, actually, except when I hear laughter but nothing funny, so I'll look to see...

It depends whose hands control it. Look up Clara Rockmore, she was the original virtuoso.

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More comfort food -- chili, chicken noodle soup, etc.

Tangerine Dream Bootleg Series That said, I love Romantic Impressionists and late Russians (ahem), so I may have to put my Chiu collection of Prokofiev and ... I don't know, some things by Ravel, Satie, and Debussy.

Billy Bailey's "Variations on a ringtone" only lasted about 24 hours as my ringtone. Now it's this: Take that, coworkers who are constantly playing YouTube out loud on your laptops.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/jim-rodford-dies-dead-the-zombies-kings-bassist-falling-down-stairs-76-latest-cause-family-a8170206.html Fuck stairs

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

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