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Yeah, I just watched it on my iPad, definitely need to give it a second viewing when it comes out on Blu-Ray (hopefully it does, streaming compression artifacts FTL, especially considering the budget -- I heard somewhere that it was the most expensive first season of a show since GoT, which is the high bar).

Yeah, that would be my prediction as well.

https://toundra.bandcamp.com/album/iii Instrumental Metal I mean, just check out "Lilim" https://toundra.bandcamp.com/track/lilim

Great idea. One of my favourite cyberpunk novels. I was going to re-read it to see if I could spot more of the differences than I picked up on from memory. The whole trilogy is worth reading (Altered Carbon + Broken Angels + Woken Furies). I can recommend the two standalone novels as well -- Black Man and Market Forces.

It's pretty much exactly what it says it is. Solo instruments recorded well, playing renditions of familiar tunes, if somewhat simplified. It pretty much sounds like someone in a guitar center going through the different sounds on a guitar/electric piano/saxophone/trumpet/steel drums/what-have-you, noodling around in an attempt to capture what was originally played in an ensemble format. Except the musician really knows the material. You have to really love the sound of the instrument to be able to listen to it for 36+ minutes, which I happen to (at least, the electric piano and the accordion ones). Take, for example, the electric piano version of Peter Frampton Comes Alive -- it's almost half as short as the album. And they don't add distortion, so it's not so much produced as performed straight. I'm tempted to grab one of the electric piano ones, just so I can sample the shit out of it. I'm listening on Tidal, on which the artist is listed as "Solo Sounds". Some of them are pretty brave -- Miles Davis' Kind of Blue! I should put it on shuffle.

Alright, that's enough of that, now this: As well as revisiting the wonderful Weather Diaries:

Some of these covers albums have weird choices, but that just makes me more curious, e.g.:

Condolences, that’s really tragic. She looks way too young to have gone so unpredictably.

Remember: waffles are just pancakes ribbed for your pleasure

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

Pastrami sammich from Subway.

Sounds awesome! Despite having been into them since ~Amber/Basscadet/Garbage/Anti days, I’ve never seen ‘em live. I have seen Pansonic and Mouse on Mars, though. Your comment reminded me of one Pan Sonic show in particular, where it felt like they were searching for the brown note, and found every other colour of the rainbow except brown, resonating practically every part of my body. It was a surprisingly pleasant and sensual experience, and I was sober. Ever since then, I’ve never criticized a band for being more interested in sonorities than melodies.

You should just cut'n'paste the link straight into your post, give it a moment, and the software should change it to an embed on its own. The hard part is stopping it from doing so -- which I'd like to do with the occasional NSFW link -- how are you doing that? PS Love early Autechre -- I lost interest when they started introducing randomness to their rhythms.

Happy birthday, Steve! (party favour noise) Yeah yeah, I stuck something in my mouth and blew on it for you, don't get too excited.

Happy birthday! (party favour noise) Hope you are doing well, and that you made another circumlocution around the sun successfully. (Or whatever a year is, I always forget.)

The more you look at it, the more disturbing it gets. It’s like a disturbforce fractal. Why uncooked chicken? Is there a sell-by date? Did he wash his hands after? How should it be handled? What is the target market? What does he expect to be done with it by the purchaser? Would throwing it in a tempura frier make it more or less disturbing?

Tasty tasty instrumental metal. Give it a listen: https://captivesofthevoid.bandcamp.com/track/belka

I know, right?

Yeah, all kinds of wonderful, thanks. Now listening to new Fischerspooner, Sir -- electroclash

Sympathy and well wishes to the lot of you! There it is again.

I just wanted to use "get out of harm's way" in a way other than it is usually intended. I like their answer. I guess I should go listen to it now.

She doesn’t think it’s broken, probably just bruised. I’m to come back if it stops getting better.