Dusty Chalk

Good to see she is recuperating, and very generous gift.

Done entirely with a ballpoint pen: Zappa on the crappa: Cat teaching a tiger a lesson (right in the eye -- ouch!): http://i.imgur.com/lK9xrXW.webm Kittens sliding on slides (sorry, don't know how to convert webmovie to animated gif, I'll figure it out): http://i.imgur.com/YB14NTD.webm

"Natural selection, do your stuff!" Unrelated:

Listening now

Moar here: http://imgur.com/a/Gjcb5

Wishing I was in LA tonight.

Yup, even more important than electric guitars to try before you buy (or "...before the return period concludes" [guitar center]), since the luthiering of acoustic guitars is an even more exacting/mysterious business than electric guitars. Knowing PRS, they're probably fine, but I just won't recommend from a place of complete ignorance. I have a Parker and a Godin Multiac (semi-acoustic/acoustic-electric/whatever you want to call it...and it's a 7-string, yes) -- I definitely favor the Godin, but probably not a good first guitar. They do appear to have some entry level acoustics. Taylors and Martins are the go-to brands. I'd also try Yamaha, they're solid.

Don't know. I have a friend who lusts over the private stock ones (US$7K+), won't touch the SEs, and therefore doesn't have any. There isn't a whole lot of discussion of the SEs on the PRS board, neither.

"Well that escalated quickly" Sucks about the meat and the pain meds, though -- hope you get well soon.

-- quite enjoyable

http://i.imgur.com/Hk1vwIq.gifv

It's pretty wonderful -- I've seen quite a bit of classical music there, as well as Bryan Ferry and...I forget who else. I used to live just a couple miles from it. I rank it right up there with Kennedy Center in terms of acoustics -- they're different, there's more bloom in this one, but it still sounds completely natural. Would love to see someone really high-fi like Dead Can Dance or Big Big Train here.

Your neck and spine trying to support that enormous head of yours is probably contributing to the problem. Aye keed, aye keed...

Saw Hilary Hahn last night with the Philadelphia Orchestra. My vantage: From my lonely chair: The Firebird opening had bass that was just sublime...doublebass, even: (Don't have any pictures of her, you know what she looks like. She was wearing a very sparkly tiara/headress thingy -- I think they were real diamonds. EDIT: And clothes. I didn't mean to make it sound like she wasn't wearing anything else.)

Happy belated! (party favour noise)

Isn't that why General MIDI came into existence? I think most online MIDI files are expected to follow the General MIDI mapping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI

spoiler tags are borked?

Want. Fuck. Want. and I'm not even hungry.

https://solace1.bandcamp.com/album/the-ruin-of-ghosts Knucks -- listen to "Bury the Dead Raven" if nothing else -- sounds like something you'd spin (did you realize your genre is "belly dancing music"? Lollers).

Ugh! No! Mold == bad. Mold == death. Me: Been binging on M R Forbes -- totally dig. Mostly the Magic and Bones series -- urban fantasy, but a bit more morbid due to the necromancer angle -- Dusty like. Finished that series, started the bleeding eye series (or whatever it's called). He ...uh... is not afraid to kill characters. I'm talking, one per book, serious shiznit. Sometimes more than one. He's not quite George R R Martin bad, but...in some ways, he's worse.

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)