Dusty Chalk

I know, right? Unrelated: hurricane Matthew:

Vangelis, Rosetta -- I'm only on track two, but it's already beautiful

You have to admit, that's a weird place to be having that discussion.

No, there was a time when that meant the world was flat, for there was as yet no way to observe any empirical evidence to the contrary. Now, I'm not saying that the opposite is true, I'm just saying you can't prove a negative. For example, there's no objective evidence that I can play the guitar. That doesn't mean I can't play, but it also doesn't mean I can.

I missed that! Probably not subconsciously, though, it took me a couple seconds before I recognized Paint It, Black...I did love the use of piano during the opening credits.

I am a big fan of the Yul Brynner movie. That said, I'm totally digging what they're doing with this show. References to repeated storyline ideas like Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow. I totally dug the use of an orchestral version of Paint It Black (Battlestar Galactica reference?), and then the bizarre Shakespeare quotes that just was its own thing. In.

So I have two responses: on the one hand, I applaud your beligerence. On the other, just because you can't comprehend something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Headphone, Clouds of Scattered Noise -- disaffected pop. RIYL Frightened Rabbit, Keane, Lorde, Florence and the Machine, et al.

Kudos, Brent.

Yeah, I listened to that, too. My tastes must've changed radically in the last couple years.

RIP

Nice! I hope you find many many hours of enjoyment playing it. Last guitar I got was an Ibby George Benson LGB30.

He did say, "properly fitted", and I do remember them being extremely sensitive to position.

Luke Cage Oh, look, it's Remy Danton. Also: greatest soundtrack I've heard in a long time. Little slow so far, but I dig it.

I went and saw 4/6 of my favourite recent discovery band, Bent Knee. Apparently, they don't do weddings, but this guy who was their biggest fan ever got them to play their rehearsal dinner, so they opened the doors to fans after the dinner. And because they were 4/6, they couldn't do entirely Bent Knee material, but apparently all of the members have their own projects, so I got to see mini sets from all of them. It was like getting my favourite band deconstructed, and then the deconstructions fleshed out. It was like someone had dissected a frog, took out all the constituent parts, painted them psychedelic colours, then displayed them in some sort of weird art exhibit, naive to the horror. It was glorious. I could tell while I was living it that the event was unique -- not only was this something they had never attempted before, I doubt they would ever attempt it again. And if they did, it'd be different. And, yeah, they played some Bent Knee material. They played some new songs that they had never played before. I'm on cloud 9... Oh, and I got to have a moment with Courtney (lead singer) to share our mutual love of Shiina Ringo, and I got to hug Jessica (and Courtney and Ben). (But I not-so-secretly have a thing for Jessica, so that was specialest.)

Ah! Ah ah ah.

Lollers -- actually, I meant both his and yours.

Sounds like a Morrissey song.

Damn, they both look delicious.

The red ones are pretty visually loud as well, but for some reason, I'm alright with them. But the blue ones put me in mind of those bright LEDs that some audiophile equipment have, that just hurt my eyes. It's too vibrant.

I love Focal, but these are some ugly ass speakers: Much prefer the red ones, the black ones (of course) and even the white ones to these.

Happy anniversary, Carl and Bonnie! Really happy for you both, especially this year. And cheers to Steve and Al's collaboration of love.

Israeli statesman Shimon Peres Man, 2016 just bites

Happy belated, hope it was great.