Dusty Chalk

Lollers @ Toblerone

Ani DiFranco live at Paste Studios live on Facebook right now: Ah! And it just ended...still up, though.

I am fortunate in that I was able to listen to that on Tidal, then?

RIP Victor Bailey (Weather Report)

Was: Jennifer Warnes, Famous Blue Raincoat (my introduction to all things Leonard Cohen, yes, even before hearing "Hallelujah") (just finished) Is: Simple Minds, Acoustic (wot, no "Theme for Great Cities"? They only remade that, what, a thousand times?) To Be: the purple twilight of sleep...no, that's not really the name of a recording, I'm on my way to bed shortly.

He really went out on a swan song. Fantastic lyricist. And I love his voice.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard this... What's wrong with listening to you? You haven't established any credence yet, that's what. If I tried everything that some random stranger on the internet told me to try, I wouldn't have time for the things that I truly enjoy. And I'd have a buttload of Galaxy Note 7s. I've already explained why you shouldn't be the one pushing this. If you persist in ignoring me and in your unpaid shilling, I shall have to resort to stronger words.

Happy birthday, Chris! Cheers! (party favour noise)

Happy birthday, Mikey! Cheers! (party favour noise)

You wanted it darker, indeed

You lost me. That's exactly what I'm telling you not to say. -100 reading comprehension points.

Truckfighters live on Facebook

And sometimes he tried to throw it out there first, so that when he was accused of it, it just sounded 'playground'.

Laurie Anderson, Live at Town Hall, New York City, September 19-20, 2001 "We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days, and to act upon them with courage, and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world." No, I'm not comparing this to 9/11, I just often think of this when people are defining themselves by being reactionary, when we should be heeding the wisdom of Laurie, and try and live a life of grace.

Unless it was rigged. Yeah, I went there.

If my responses don't make sense, it's because I'm more inebriated than usual.

Yeah, but...it has to be across the entire frequency spectrum, as both impedance and sensitivity are both frequency dependent.

I had 3 Ricos Tacos from Ricos Tacos Moya (chicken, steak, and pork "al pastor").

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say about the VTGs. I probably should not have said, "...in the same way..." when I really meant "...the same, only different..."

I don't have a favourite. He has too many perfect ones. And even Splendido Hotel -- with its horrific roller rink background music of "I Can Tell" -- is such an otherwise wonderful album, that I forgive it that one mar. But yeah, that's one of 'em.

Yeah, but this was in the early days, when most people were not amplifying properly. And yes, you're right, most headphones "scale" -- they respond well to increasingly better amplification. I think the HD600 are worse than most (in the same way I think the VTGs and the Sony MDR-7506/-V6 are better than most, in that they scale very little).

Voted. (I did not vote for rat poison.) Walked to my polling place. Had a margarita on the way back. Changed my Avatar. Again. Went to the doctor, got a thumbs up for the improvement, told his assistant that I really enjoyed her singing last time, I think that put her off, though, she got all formal. I hope I didn't make her feel too uncomfortable, I was trying to encourage her singing, it made for a really pleasant experience for me last time. Oh well...

No, I remember even before , the HD600 was considered veiled unless you amped it properly . I don't consider one more veiled than the other .

I don't think so -- the way Massdrop works is, they promote a slightly tweaked version of an already popular product, sort of like Grado did with Head-Fi and the HF-1 and HF-2. I mean, I still applaud you for being suspicious, as we all should be, but I don't think it's as bad as all that. They may be using this as a venue for trying out a slightly new tweak on the HD650, there's nothing in the rules against that. I'm just weary of what the tweaks could be, as I don't consider all tweaks to necessarily be improvements.