Dusty Chalk

I recently thought about joining ICE...yes, really, but not what you think...not the evil ICE that we see everywhere, but HSI. https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/hsi The ones who investigate the real terrorist networks domestically. Mostly because I have had it with what the Russian plants did to get Trump elected and cement his position there, but also...because it would be easy. I get pinged all the time, recruitment pings on LinkedIn from obviously Russian organizations. One of them even had the audacity to communicate with me in Russian. I got as far as filling out The Questionnaire. There are a lot of questions of the "are you now or have you ever been" variety, but there are also questions that are much more to the point (see attached). I have zero problem killing bad guys. The above video is why. I do realize it's a lot easier knowing who the bad guys are in the above scenarios (they're shooting at you!), and that's kind of what I was imagining, but I do also realize that real life is not so clear cut. I had to bail (on working for ICE) for other reasons. (They wanted to be able to dictate whom I investigated and whom I didn't, being the biggest one.) But I remain staunchly pro-2A, and needed to renew my vow to myself to remain grounded and moral. There may not be people worse than Trump and Hegseth and Miller and the Heritage Foundation et al, but they wouldn't be so bad for life on this planet if it weren't for the extremist MAGA and Russians who are the real terrorists. And armed.

My new guitar idol -- so virtuosic, yet so melodic And a collaboration:

I made stroganoff the other day. I put too much black pepper in, but other than that, it was delicious. It was super spicy, and I wasn't even trying to make it so (the spiciest thing I put in there was black pepper, but I put my usual amount, which is about 1 cubic inch).

RIP Ken Parker, designer of the most advanced guitar ever, the Parker Fly Deluxe. This one hits hard, I regret having to sell all my Parker Fly Deluxes over the course of the last year, they were the most amazing guitars. I just pulled the bass out of storage to fix and sell (it's just the battery compartment).

Thanks! I will have to check out Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets tomorrow. (2:05 on Swan Stage at Right Coast time, presumably.)

Me reading a manual.

Very great, familiar song that I never knew the name of, nor the act that performed it. Was led to it by the comments section in another video short:

I despise and condemn how the current administration and the GOP have emboldened this hate and violence. I read stories like this almost every day, it seems.

4 people gunned down in a deplorable act of violence in an LDS church in Michigan. https://apnews.com/article/mormon-church-shooting-michigan-dcb79ee701b0b8076bf73e30e10ba2b7?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us I know I'm pro-2A and anti-superstitious, but I also believe in freedom from religious persecution. Fucking rednecks.

Post-rock (of the non-crescendo-core variety) -- very tasty (The F1rst Take is a YouTube channel dedicated to showing (off) musicians performing a song -- live in the studio, or at least the ones on screen -- in its entirety in one take):

Happy belated birthday! (party favour noise...zuh)

As part of the Kickstarter, I get to listen to Al1ce's upcoming album, As Above, So Below, before anyone else... ...except everyone else who was a part of the Kickstarter...which is a heck of a lot of people...they quadrupled their goal.

I can't get enough of Kardi Bonus banger live version of an early barnburner:

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

I hear Lush and Slowdive, myself. But...yeah...(gets all dreamy eyed)...love that melodic harmonic wall of noise. Pure bliss. ...or did you mean the movie? LOL. I didn't watch the video until just now, just listened to the music.

I'm glad you survived. I hope you never disappear completely in my lifetime.

Pretty sure it was Charlie Kirk's last assassination.

Mmm...shoegazey...

I wonder if Aardvark Sammich has seen this.

Went off on a Devics bender again, just finished it the other day. Also going through some new releases: Kardi, When the Lights Out EP -- dangerously obsessable (Korean) poprock New SmashPups song, Chrome Jets. Rifftastic. Reminds of someone, can't put my finger on whom -- Randy Rhoads era Ozzy maybe? New Haezl song She's taking some time off to care for a family member, so there will probably be a delays in the other 6 parts of this. Pink Floyd, "The Machine Song - Demo #2, Revisited" -- almost sounds heavier without the beat/throb Crippling Alcoholism, Camgirl -- gothic rock, noise rock, darkwave Maruja, Pain to Power -- post-rock, post-punk, art rock

Meticulously played, thanks for the rec.!

IMO this is right up there with Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra's "Some Velvet Morning" and "Summer Wine" and Nick Cave/Kylie Minogue's "Where the Wild Roses Grow". Hearing her sing her part ultra high over his almost-talking drawl is the perfect representation of the siren call.

I had one of the scenes with Tyres O'Flaherty raving to something as my ringtone for the longest time.