Dusty Chalk

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)

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...