Dusty Chalk

Specificity of training. Textbook. Okay, grem.

Hardest rocking song of Monday night. "Hush, just give it a try." Goddamn, I love the sound of a Jazzmaster loaded with jazz master pickups and a Little Thunder.

We were supposed to get sexual harassment training here at work, then we were dismissed from it..."how am I supposed to get better at sexual harassment without training?", I thought.

I don't think I've used it in years.

I love olives. pronounced, "olive olives"

Been listening to a lot of Airbag recently. Bunch of best-era (WYWH, Animals) Pink Floyd obsessives married Porcupine Tree. Never enough of this stuff. I mean that synthesizer solo is a straight homage to Shine On You Crazy Diamond part 1, and the opening verse/chorus sounds like Porcupine Tree.

I love that video so hard.

What about those of us who don’t give a fuck about anything?

Yeah, that was great...until he got to the story of one song, about a girl he had a crush on, but I'm just not into you so I wrote a song about it because why not. Put me into a funk for a couple songs. But yeah, he's so good that I did get back out of it before too long. EDIT: I think it was this one: https://naiaizumi.bandcamp.com/album/our-gravity-single The track, "Dreamers", is what finally got me back on track. https://naiaizumi.bandcamp.com/track/dreamers

Waiting to see Naia Izumi http://imgur.com/gallery/kjSpe64

Gogo Penguin, Man Made Object

This dog cheats most adorably:

Just finished some delicious Ka Pow Salmon Fillet from my local Thai place of note, Pa Nuang. Deelish.

This fantastic guitarist's Tiny Desk concert, which I helped get them on, by voting for them -- going to see them next week: That was actually last night, not sure why it didn't post. I am now listening to this one, based on the recommendation of a new online friend:

So apparently Morgan Freeman used to be Jimi Hendrix.

HeadAmp https://www.headamp.com/order/headamp-gs-x-mk2-balanced-headphone-amplifier/ Someone else can recommend a source. I'm a "bits is bits" guy. Also, I don't think EQ is anathema, as long as you retain phase coherence.

Way too upbeat for me. I need "peaceful melancholy"... This rocks!

New Oneohtrix Point Never, Age Of Really interesting to hear their take on vocal music:

Cheers to a life well lived.

New All India Radio! mostly instrumental laid back space rock with a strong Pink Floyd influence https://allindiaradio.bandcamp.com/album/s-p-a-c-e

I wrote a song for all the stay-at-home dads.* Here's the backing track. "I'm glad you're home Now did you really miss me I guess you did by the look in your eyes (look in your eyes) Well lay back, and relax, while I put away the dishes Then you and me Can rock a bye I can ring your bell, ring your bell I can ring your bell, ring your bell I can ring your bell, ring your bell I can ring your bell, ring your bell The night is young and full of possibilities Well come on and let yourself be free My love for you so long I've been savin' The night was made for me and you I can ring your bell, ring your bell I can ring your bell, ring your bell I can ring your bell, ring your bell I can ring your bell, ring your bell (disco instrumental break) (I can ring your bell I can ring your bell Ding dong ding ah I can ring your bell I can ring your bell Anytime Anywhere) I can ring your bell, ring your bell I can ring your bell, ring your bell I can ring your bell, ring your bell I can ring your bell, ring your bell (Ring a ling a ling)" (Yes, it's now a song about servicing your woman.) *Not really. I was practicing singing by singing (specificity of training), and I was having trouble hitting the high notes, so I tried lowering it an octave. With a man singing it, it sounded a little too...selfish, for lack of a better word. I really liked the dynamic of the original song, so I thought about rearranging the lyrics to say the same thing, only from the other perspective—I can ring your bell. So I went through the rest of the lyrics to see what else I had to change. Not a single other thing. So it’s basically the same lyrics with “you can ring my bell“ changed to “I can ring your bell”.

Happy birthday! You heard of cats?

This is the best!

The kid with the shovel cracks me up:

She's right about leather seats, though. Everyone hates those in summer.