Dusty Chalk

Steven Wilson, Hand. Cannot. Erase. It's quite great, if I may say so. Continues in the direction started by Raven...

They misspelled my sister's name! :\

From Tim Powers' Facebook post: Well that explains a lot.

Some crap techno spun by a DJ pre Infected Mushroom animatronics gig

EDIT: Oh Land posted this picture of herself:

Radioactive Man, Uranium EP -- those who dig Knucks' spinning will probably like this

That's still half fast. That's quarter-assed.

I think it's a 50 Shades of Grey reference, I don't get it neither. Do you see the handcuffs? That's the only thing that makes me think that.

I do the same thing with my hamper, LOL (and play Words With Friends on my phone or read Kindle book).

Lived long and prospered

House of Cards, Season 3 Just one episode, lollers

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

Wandering around a bit -- last night was listening to the new Swervedriver which is outstanding -- I need to go back and listen to their older stuff, but offhand, I think everything has improved -- the songwriting, the playing, the production, they even started doing those slow whammy bar bends that I associate with My Bloody Valentine and makes me weak at the knees no matter who is doing it. Now listening to Knucks' last set. Will probably listen to Ólafur Arnalds' Broadchurch soundtrack after that.

Thanks, listening now. And: sorry -- Friday nights are really hard for me for some reason.

With a capital 'mixed'. I like the haphazard nature of the presentation. It looks like how I pile things on my plate at an all-you-can-eat buffet.

No idea. Click the link. DEW ET. No, seriously, it's this bizarre, muscular cross between shoegazer (My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, et al) and grunge (Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, et al), with this astoundingly strong ear towards songwriting -- if that sounds appealing, then give it a try.

New Swervedriver fucking rocks. It's like a time machine that takes one back 17 years. Slow guitar bends still slay me.

Black Mirror Season 2, Episode 1 Had me weeping twice already, and I'm not even halfway through, what an emotional roller coaster. Shelly, you might want to skip this particular episode for now.

WTH? I got confused guy, too, and when I googled "Ikea Lack", a couple of the google links sent me there, too. WTFF?

Agreed on the straw-man, I didn't spend a whole lot of thought on it. Perhaps a better example is the enclosure of headphones. It leads to distortion, sure, but you can't ignore it. You have to work with it. Someone like who you're describing would never work with anything other than an entirely open headphone, and there are certainly plenty of those, but not everyone who tries to accomplish anything with closed headphones is doing so for marketing purposes, they're doing so because it's a challenge, and neither engineers nor artists can resist a challenge. I think there are four categories, not two: if you're a physicist, you'll minimize the variables and then ignore them (I think these people wouldn't last long in the speaker designing industry); if you're an engineer, you'll minimize the variables and then account for them in the final design (most everyone else, to varying degrees of success); if you're an artist, you'll just tune them by ear; and if you're a salesperson, you'll make whatever you can get people to make, and then spin-doctor the snot out of it (RSA comes to mind -- I don't consider him an artist, that's an insult to artists). I think all companies do varying amounts of each at a corporate level.

On the contrary, the holistic approach is to take the entire box into consideration, not just the driver. But if you want to ignore the box, by all means, good luck with that. It's like trying to make the room entirely dead vs. trying to integrate the speaker with the room for the best sound. Anyone will tell you that an anechoic chamber makes for a horrible listening experience.

Well that didn't take long. I still have it virtually earmarked to obtain. Will get around to it. Finished Sparrow Hill Road -- superb yet again. Will probably get around to Symbiont at some point, got a Christopher Moore book to read, and need to find where I was with Jim Butcher/Dresden.