Dusty Chalk

Tidal Exclusives

I've been listening to Redshift all day -- great old-school Tangerine Dream electronica with lots of mellotron. This stuff is sublime.

It begins...

Happy birthday, Doug, hope it's better than yesterday! (party favour noise)

Where the hell do you live, Siberia? It's beautiful down here (other than I don't know whether to keep the air on "cool" or "heat" indoors).

I was checking myself out at Wegmans (waits for jokes, pauses, continues), and four items from the end, the machine just stopped scanning. You know the red laser pattern that flashes, it didn't even flash any more. So I notified the person attending the self-checkout-area, and explained what had happened, and she notified someone else, and the first one started explaining what happened to the second one incorrectly, so I interrupted and explained what happened correctly, and when I was done, they did some tests (trans: they tried to scan my items themselves), and while they were doing that, I suggested, "maybe it ran out of photons". They laughed. So I went to another register to finish checking out (they had a professional do it this time), and after I was done, on my way out the store, I pass by the broken stall, which they appear to be disassembling, and I ask, "going to refill it?" I crack me up.

That's what I was thinking...how'd you get them to stop? I just reset my router. (You know that thing where you can call their number and have them send a signal to reset your router? It takes several minutes to boot back up and have all the machines get their IP addresses again. Also: 12 hard drives?!?!? Great googly moogly, that's a lot of porn.

Who is this 'duggeh' of whom you speak? Happy birthday, anyway, whoever you are.

I wonder if that's used with Daft Punk's permission...

I feel like it's an Oceansize kind of day. Tidal provides Effloresce, Music for Nurses, Everyone into Position, Home & Minor, and Self-Preserved While the Bodies Float Up.

The Mytek is (by all reports that I care about) a very nice DAC. Isn't it a studio standard? (wanders off, googles) First off, I still hate that style of website. Can't fucking search the page until you get it to load. But...oh my, they just added a DSD option to their top-tier ADC...

IIRC, Ein Deutsches Album sounds completely different, I don't know if they completely re-recorded it or mixed it differently, or what.

Congratulations!

Garfunkel & Oates -- this show is fantastic

home-cooked green curry chicken with bamboo and water chestnuts

You should ha' left it, it would've looked like you were rubbing it in. Which you were, just not that much.

And they say burn-in isn't real!

I liked episode 2 even more than the pilot. So why is the comic book called iZombie? Is there an apple product involved? I guess my point was, it should be called "I, Zombie". Or "Liv, the twenty-something Undead Girl". Or "How to be a Zombie in a post-zombie-apocalypse world and survive".

Garfunkel & Oates (on Netflix streaming)

On both days, it was the day after I purchased a Musician's Friend Stupid Deal of the Day -- coincidence? Anyone else shop at Musician's Friend?

Lustmord, The Word as Power -- damn. Only gotten as far as "Babel", but...damn. This is eye-wateringly beautiful. (on Spotify...EDIT: no, just switched to Bandcamp to see if it sounds any different...I think it does, ackshully...a smidge better on Bandcamp.)

The Ocean, Fluxion, on Spotify -- a, because it just came out, and b, because I need some cathartic music, will probably resume with Cryo Chamber releases immediately after.

Yup, one of the transactions said, "Google* Viacom". I just sent Google a scathing email:

Woke up to a bunch of spurious international charges on my credit card via Google. I'm on the phone now with Capital One and Google. Aside: the Capital One representative is on hold with me, listening to the Google wait music. Which isn't as bad as Capital One's wait music, but still...some payback. EDIT: Now I feel bad -- the Capital One rep was really nice, the person at Google wallet spent way too much time talking, and not enough time finding anything -- I'm not even sure I was talking to the right person. They couldn't find any transactions! How is that possible? I just got this card, and I'm already closing it.

It certainly doesn't suck to be Colin or Dan.