Dusty Chalk

Lots of PFM -- even the most recent one, A.D. 2010 - La Buona Novella, is superb. Italian prog is Italian. Muy bueno.

Fugees == flavour of the month?

Alas, tomorrow is also Sakura Matsuri, thinking of going to that, haven't been in a couple years.

Exactly, though it's the principal, not the money. I hinted to him exactly the same thing that once he got it back, he could probably get away with selling it as a demo.

Because I don't feel like wasting the string set on a guitar that he's already told me he'll be issuing a return tag on. Also, because I have anger management issues. Which are exacerbated by people.

Yes, it's a PRS SE Custom 24/7-string. Torqued is when it has a slight helical twist to it; bowed is when it has a slight arc to it. It has a lot to do with the fact that it isn't strung or "set up" (mostly truss rod adjustment, but setup also includes other things, like adjustment of the bridge height and intonation). Strings put an expected tension on the neck which compensates for some amount of bowing and torquing. The problem is without stringing it up, I have no way of knowing if stringing it up will solve the problem, but if I'm not going to keep it, I don't feel like bothering. He has agreed to take it back, so there's that...and he's sending a new one, so IMHO, he's taking care of it. I't's really hard to tell from the pictures, since the best way to see the problem is to sight along the neck, and the camera refuses to focus on everything at once. It's subtle. It's probably recuperable, but I just don't feel like dealing with it. Dude needs some serious training in "presentation" and PR.

http://imgur.com/a/kjM7R I ordered this guitar almost a year ago. They finally came in in ... January/February? We've been going back and forth on pickups until finally I said fuck it, just send me the guitar stock. He shipped it with the pickups included, but taken out, no strings, and a chip. I think it's been sitting like this for the last month or so, because apparently the guy only reads his email once a week or something. I think it's torqued. And bowed. I'm never dealing with this asshole again.

Belated happy birthday and happy Thai new year! (multiple party favours noiseses)

Big Big Train, From Stone and Steel -- on Tidal until it gets released in the US. Probably on infinite repeat. Probably my favourite English band.

(not really, pretty cool though, and I loller at the mental image that generates)

You got some cheese sprinkles on your mac.

Steve v -------------------------------------------------------v Colin

Awesome! If even one beer douche finds it interesting, I will be heartened.

I was just trying to figure out what you were going to do them once you got them through said domicile sized door. You certainly weren't going to arrange them back to front -- that might cancel each other out....er, no, it would generate some very nasty comb filtering.

More cents than sense? Mmm...line array electrostatics...(and by that I mean the 50 Neoliths)...

That actually made this moar hilarious for me:

If you got kicked in the carpels and stamins enough times, wouldn't you leave?

This

I have no idea how to handle the endless poo flingers. Besides the banhammer.

https://chelseawolfe.bandcamp.com/album/abyss You can stream it. Highly recommended. Definitely one of my top 10 from last year, and easily my most listened to. Also, there's some crazy (good) bass on here. Listen, for example, to "Simple Death" on your most extensive headphones.

PBJ chips sounds awesome.