Dusty Chalk

They're also two of my favourite violin concertos (well, top 13, anyway). Will give it a listen.

Yeah, multipart zips aren't any big thing (literally (ahem)), but I have also said, "who even does that any more?", so I hear both sides of the story.

Happy almost belated birthday, Naaman! I hope it was grand! (party favour noise)

I had chicken Dhaniya made "Indian hot" at Taste of Tandoor, and it was (sings it) Heaven!

RIP Mark Sandman Yeah, I know, it was 25 years ago...don't care, still miss him...

So...here's a mental exercise -- what if we didn't? What if some biological weapon capped us all in the reproductive organs before the industrial age (like steampunk gone awry, where steam and mold give everyone killer allergies)? Then all the fossil fuels could have sit unburned, and then explosively detonated like the New York City sewer system, except on a planet scale. Then where would we be? We'd be extinct, that's where.

https://album.link/us/i/1440945297 Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface Just good old normal alternative rock passionately played and emotionally sung I think I'll put on some Rhiannon Giddens next -- she's playing live in the area in March. I'd see that.

Yes, but...REGAL EGGPLANT https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Electric-Guitar/MOD-RAM020614/Regal-Eggplant That said, I'm downsizing -- I will be selling 90% of my guitars. I even found a purple PRS Hollowbody that I forgot (!) I had. WTF is wrong with me? Don't answer that. Or ... I don't even know what this colour is (looks "mauve" to me), but I like it: https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Electric-Guitar/MOD-RAM020298/Metallic-Zinnia

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

No, it's Netflix. It might be a country thing. https://www.netflix.com/title/81167119

Main actress is the same as the one I was smitten with from Alchemy of Souls. Main actor is playing a handsome, charistmatic, eccentric, neurodivergent cat-lover. They accidentally move in together, not knowing they are opposite sexes. Hilarity and drama ensue.

Happy birthday, Colin! May all your skin stay on from this day forth. (party favour noise)

New Hania Rami

I guess I see what I want to see. 🤣

Is that my imagination, or does that say, "AspHat"?

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

He also did that Chess song... I think his brother was too small to make it big.

I think I blew one of the speakers in my car. I blame this song (at approximately the 1:24 mark): https://song.link/us/i/1457106550

They must've promoted it differently more accurately targeting its market. Success!

Wack Japanese rock https://album.link/us/i/1664718825 Also, 105.5 hours of ambient bliss:

I actually need to read that next. I read Slant, not realizing it was book 4 in a series, and thought it was great.

One can also sample it on Bandcamp. https://kelela.bandcamp.com/album/raven

Also RIP Burt Bacharach. But Jesusfuckingaitchchristalmighty, my heart goes out to all of those in Turkey & Syria.