Dusty Chalk

Brisket -- meh, better than Famous Dave's, but not as good as Dixie Bones.

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

The question is how much more fantastic can it be, and the answer is none. None more fantastic.

No, if your information is correct, then I truly do appreciate knowing that I don't have it, it's just that I recognized the cover, so thought I had it. I probably just assumed that everything would be included. I'll double-check when I get home, and if I don't, will definitely pursue. Thanks!

Yeezh, Wayne. I just can't imagine going through life with memories like that. (involuntarily shudders)

Yeah, it's...interesting. "Interesting". I've only watched one so far, and it quickly became "background viewing", so if they threw in an Easter Egg, I missed it. It's quite disposable (other than the beginning and the end) -- it shows her sitting at a desk, and she mimes manipulating something in the air, and CG magically forms, and then takes over the screen. The rest of the album is this programmed CG stuff that kind of complements the audio, but it's also kind of like watching an oscilloscope -- you only find it interesting if you find it interesting. I kind of wasn't in the mood, got it mostly for the audio content, so switched the Oppo to "pure audio" mode. Would probably make great viewing in an "installation" at a party or something, where a lot of the people are indie hipsters and artiste types. I think Blue Man Group did it better -- they didn't have any video content except for one song, and that one was one of those communicating LED bars that they had before their shows saying stuff. And a cat, IIRC. I mean, at least it was better than Thursday Afternoon. Still life boobs with weird graphical manipulations of said still life boobs (not still life with boobs, mind you, they appeared quite still, so...not very interesting, except inasmuch as one is desperate for boobs, which I wasn't at the time (was married)). Thanks for the link. As to my favourite, that's still Karuki Samen Kuri no Hana (加爾基 精液 栗ノ花（カルキ・ザーメン・くりのはな） Chlorinated Lime Semen Chestnut Flower?), (English title Kalk Semen Chestnut Flower). But I do still kind of love it when she wails. I still need to get that Tokyo Jihen set, too.

Dull Rachmaninov is still Rachmaninov, so...win! (Translation: I like Ashkenazy, sometimes a non-personalized interpretation is best interpretation. I feel the same way about Schubert's chamber music, especially a certain very popular interpretation of his piano trios.) And thanks for that, I did manage to track down the MoRA 24/96 DVD box set, which includes that. Très wonderful. Need to figure out how to rip it, now, so that I can listen on my computer.

L'Shana Tova, to all appropriate personages.

Posted with the caption, "this is not a scene from a movie, this was Friday at Burning Man" (it actually is a scene from a movie...photoshopped in with a scene from Burning Man).

Food porn video: https://www.facebook.com/djmosakenofficial/videos/1043122712380622/

I discovered her purely by chance -- was listening to Pye Control Audio as a result of a track from Knucks set on Friday (which I'd heard before, but felt like investigating this time), and clicked on related acts in Tidal, and she was the only one listed. Oh, and she sounds nothing like them, lollers. Now: Tycho -- was KEXP set, now Boiler Room set, just really pretty post-rocky kind of stuff with heavy dose of electronica and effects.

Gary Richrath (REO Speedwagon) -- before you mock, go listen to the live side of a Decade of Rock'n'Roll: 1970 to 1980. We lost a good one.

Cheers fellow space traveler.

You ARE a target market.

I had some swordfish earlier that was just perfect. A little salty, could that be because they were breathing salt water their entire life, and I'm just more sensitive to it than I was almost 30 years ago, the last time I had swordfish this good, or was it because we're nowhere near deep sea, and they needed to preserve it to get here? Anyway, not complaining, just wonderin'.

Holly Herndon, Platform -- glitchy experimental electronica -- medigs! -- RIYL Oneohtrix Point Never, Grimes, Fever Ray, et al.

Happy belated! (party favour noise)

Pye Corner Audio, because Knucks.

So very 1978. My friend Pavan got married in traditional Indian garb -- I must say, I am quite jealous. So purple. Also, they already have a puppy together.

Sent in a bunch of rebates for guitar strings (~$360 dollars worth). Used forever stamps from ~10 years back, I think. Stopped by the new Mom's Organic Market that opened down here in Woodbridge. Bought $5 of stuff (I didn't really need anything, but wanted some peppermints). They gave me a goody bag worth over 5 times that. Profit! Also, customer for life. Discovered Ornery Beer Public House is opening.

Either that, or she's trying to stave off some sort of photographic attack.

No, I think he meant this one.

This. For some reason, I find the concept of being pooped on a major criteria for assholicness in creatures, and therefore birds win. Although plague rats would do it for me too if that were a realistic problem.

Well, I did find high-res download on HDTracks, if you care...