Dusty Chalk

Please ask to provide us a recording -- I actually got that, because Discord.

New Covet -- that first song is the most atypical Covet song I've ever heard (in a good, noise-rock way), but the rest of it is more like this, but with just as much variety: At first I kinda wished it was full of more surprises like that first song, but then I "got comfortable" -- this is truly my comfort music, so I'm (quite possibly for the first time) actually happy about not being as surprised as I started out wishing I was.

I lollered.

It was never lost. I also found several interconnects, including my pair of Pure Silver Sound interconnects that were all the rage oh so long ago. I do remember them sounding better than the others, but not sure why -- capacitance?

Things I have found while moving: An unopened case of Life & Limb An unopened case of Sam Adams Winter Classics from a decade ago Several various bottles of Bourbon County when they were way less than $25/bottle...including a 3 bottle vertical A JL Audio W7 in its ProWedge enclosure that I think I got from someone here (sorry, I forget from whom -- Jeff? Chris?) Several Pioneer SX-era receivers Several guitar amp stands (you really only need one or two if you're a shoegazer or serious cork-sniffer) Actual marbles (the lead/crystal/glass/whatever ones from the 70's) Too many watches (Invicta, Android, one Ocean7) A pair of Focal speakers A SVSound subwoofer An ancient pair of Mackie HR824 when Mackie was good An HD-DVD player (does it matter what brand?) Three Oppos The purple turntable from Turntable Lab and a record cleaning machine (I never forgot the turntable, but I did indeed forget that I got a record cleaning machine as well) Things I have not found: my proverbial marbles

That's so great, isn't it? I think I will revisit it. Thansk for the "bump". Egad, is it all so melodic and lyrical? I am <3ing very much.

https://mattelliott.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-of-days

I heard that in Karen Carpenter's voice.

First of all, thanks for giving her a listen. Secondly, feel better, y'all! I've been mostly listening to comfort music during my eternal commutes:

Aw, man, my girl Hilary didn't even make the cut? No, seriously, from your descriptions, it sounds like I would like the "too perfect" and "dark and broody" versions as well as many of the ones you liked the most, so I will follow in those footsteps.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-camila-ramirez-r_women-womenintech-ai-activity-7041769368640188416-G_KS?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Corned beef, cabbage, carrots, potatoes.

Unholy carp, that was insanely great! I got choked up multiple times listening to that just once. Intense.

Garbage's first album, for some reason. Prior to that, I was stuck on Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy and Simple Minds' New Gold Dream (gosh I love those albums so much) for some reason. Probably because I haven't been liste ning to music, so my mind mentally replays whatever I know most well. So...those three albums.

I got tired of watching Jung So-min getting heartbroken/harassed/dumped on/and worse, so I started The Recruit. This is great! It's like Jack Ryan except viewed through the Dr. Strangelove/Catch-22 filter.

Very Jungle

Unrelated -- me, earlier: The Church's new one, Hypnagogue -- as is typical, very very good. They seem to spend more time creating their slightly mellow, slightly psychedelic art-rock (E.G. "Destination", Gold Afternoon Fix, Priest=Aura, Sometime Anywhere, &c.) than any kind of sequel to their biggest hit, the wistful ballad, "Under the Milky Way", for which I admire them. Quaffable.

They're also two of my favourite violin concertos (well, top 13, anyway). Will give it a listen.

Yeah, multipart zips aren't any big thing (literally (ahem)), but I have also said, "who even does that any more?", so I hear both sides of the story.

Happy almost belated birthday, Naaman! I hope it was grand! (party favour noise)

I had chicken Dhaniya made "Indian hot" at Taste of Tandoor, and it was (sings it) Heaven!

RIP Mark Sandman Yeah, I know, it was 25 years ago...don't care, still miss him...

So...here's a mental exercise -- what if we didn't? What if some biological weapon capped us all in the reproductive organs before the industrial age (like steampunk gone awry, where steam and mold give everyone killer allergies)? Then all the fossil fuels could have sit unburned, and then explosively detonated like the New York City sewer system, except on a planet scale. Then where would we be? We'd be extinct, that's where.

https://album.link/us/i/1440945297 Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface Just good old normal alternative rock passionately played and emotionally sung I think I'll put on some Rhiannon Giddens next -- she's playing live in the area in March. I'd see that.