Dusty Chalk

I'm not sure it's even possible to get a 40 inch (-ish), non-smart, 1080p TV any more. I had the exact same requirements several years ago when I got mine, and it was more or less NOS (by months, I think).

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

Happy birthday, Tom! (party favour noise)

Way too soon -- fuck drugs.

Funny, I'm having a wine dinner here, but I don't think this is the thread for it.

I cannot stop listening to this. Crazy good. It's like Peter Gabriel's "Darkness" meets the Devics meets Sinead O'Connor's "Just Call Me Joe" with a little bit of stoner/doom and/or post-rock thrown in. And it's not just the guitar tones -- the dynamic range is impressive as well. Definitely obtaining. Definitely going in my top 5 of the year, possibly top 3. So here's the funny thing -- I started texting this vinyl service, and so far they've been sending me mainstream stuff (Adele, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis), so I've been eschewing. Finally I got tired of it, and responded "DISLIKE". So they asked me what I wanted. I responded with "alternative / independent / experimental" -- and they send me this. FUCK. YES. This is exactly the sort of thing I want them to spam me with.

Mike wasn't thinking, Mike was doing.

Chelsea Wolfe, Abyss -- fuck, this is good https://chelseawolfe.bandcamp.com/album/abyss

Finished Jessica Jones ((singing) Aaaaaawe-some), started Man in the High Castle (awesome so far) Coincidence: Burn Gorman has been in every other thing I've been seeing lately: Man in the High Castle, Game of Thrones, Crimson Peak, Forever...it's just weird.

Cheers to that.

Happy birthday, Gene! (party favour noise)

Happy birthday, Haj! (party favour noise)

I met Dylan from The Dylan Group and Mice Parade yesterday (he's apparently the boyfriend of a friend of mine that I haven't seen in several years), and they make my favourite kind of music (I don't even know what to call it besides "instrumental" -- music for music's sake? At least, that's what it sounds like to me), so I'm going to binge on Dylan Group and Mice Parade...

I watched someone total a car in Project Cars today. Total, as in 100%, as in never finished. Apparently there's an "eject shattered windshield" button, because for a while there couldn't see through the multiple spider web cracks. Hood was also in the way for a while, but eventually it just blew off.

That's funny, because underneath that donut was mac & cheese. I tried the spicy fried chicken, and it was delicious, so I ate the whole thing. So between that and the 3 tenderloin medalions and the pecan tart in a sweet potato thingy (also delicious) and the kale salad, I'd say I ate enough. Oh yeah, and a biscuit. And a meat candy lollipop. All delicious.

So I'm listening to this show kinda inside out -- the second half first, and I'll listen to the first half later. Is that weird? I don't think it's weird.

Alright, totally binge-watched the last couple episodes of Jessica Jones, the show fucking slammed. Arrow, s04e07, "Brotherhood" -- they've really upped their game in terms of the fight scene department. There were two, in particular, that really caught my eye. If you're into the show at all, watch for them.

Frederic Chiu, The Complete Music for Solo Piano by Prokofiev

http://gawker.com/5874304/japanese-department-store-may-want-to-look-up-the-word-fucking One of my arty friends likened badly made memes to folk art.