Dusty Chalk

I skipped on Musical Box several days ago because I still wasn't feeling well, and I'm probably skipping on HILARY HAHN playing MENDELSSOHN, despite it being one of my favourite violin concertos, because I'm still not feeling well...dagnabit...so...looking forward to at least brief impressions...

These cats -- "melanistic bengal" -- are black on black. Now I want one.

Yours is more like a Molotov cocktail than the kind we drink. "Did you put something in this? I feel funny..."

See? You're ruining one joke, but helping with another. So I give you a brownie point.

That's a lot dangerous, he said a little. And yes, that was funny. Do you want to lose an eyebrow?

I understood you, as well, and saw the joke. And I did originally mean fencing foils. Because katanas are much sturdier. I just thought I'd go in a different direction, because funny. To me, anyway. I mean, what could be more disjoint than katanas instead of Mai Tais. Unless there's a cocktail called the katana, which there probably is, which undermines the joke, so...I fail. Hilariously, hilariously fail.

No, I meant instead of Mai Tais.

The opposite of a Hiwatt?

Happy birthday! (party favour noise) Sent from my mind using id, ego, or superego...

It's got that same patience, otherwise it's completely different. Basically, nothing compares to Spirit of Eden. That said, give it a listen. I think I listened to it 5 times yesterday, I'm totally hooked.

Maybe you oughta switch to katanas. Sent from my mind using id, ego, or superego...

I just discovered this album -- it's fantastic. Post-rock, for lack of a better term. Right up there with Out of Season by Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man, not quite up to Spirit of Eden levels, but close.

That's why I said, "something like". But that said, you don't think that when our ears form and our hearing forms, that we don't learn to accomodate for those specific differences, and the sound-to-brain transfer-function kind of renders those differences moot? Shouldn't it be more of a matter of getting the sound right just before it enters the ear -- just as if the sound was created in real life when it was on its way to hitting the ear just before it hit the ear?

Happy birthday, Ed, glad you're still with us! (party favour noise)

That could well be. Goes back to the old argument of accuracy vs. euphony. Those trained in the studio (or with acoustic instruments in real life) would recognize even slightly exaggerated bumps, where those of us who do most of our listening in artificial environments (headphones, speakers, contemporary music, amplified concerts) may not notice, and crave it if exposed to enough of it and addicted. For the record -- I don't really claim to be in either camp. I've been pushing myself to listen to more acoustic music, but I'll be honest, I listen to 99.99% the other kind (electronic, produced, contemporary, however you want to call it). PS I see something like this growing in popularity: https://www.geteven.co/products/even-headphones

o_O (twitch)

You're a contrarian by not breaking rules, since the rest of us are all rule-breakers. Wait...

Yes.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sure, let's go with that. Sent from my mind using id, ego, or superego...

Yup, pretty much.

First of all thanks for the link. It is awesome, I love the flavour. I just can't handle a lot of it, and it's easier to use none at all than a little. I don't know what happened. Back when I worked at Voice of America, I always had a delicious ginger ale or ginger beer (I forget which) that they had there at the cafeteria, and one day -- it was very abrupt -- I think I just hit a saturation point, and I couldn't finish the bottle I was drinking and never had it again. Every once in a while, I will run into a recipe at a Chinese restaurant that I like, but can't consume large quantities of, and one of the common ingredients is ginger. Which is sad, because it's used in a lot of Chinese and Thai dishes. I can handle pickled ginger just fine, though. The kind that comes with sushi.

I've been making a lot of orange beef lately, always interested in variations, would be interested in what recipe you use. I'm not a fan of ginger, so usually eschew, but I know most people find it traditional.

Yeah, loved it. My only complaint is if there isn't more. Sent from my mind using id, ego, or superego...