Dusty Chalk

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.

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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.

Yes, but...REGAL EGGPLANT https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Electric-Guitar/MOD-RAM020614/Regal-Eggplant That said, I'm downsizing -- I will be selling 90% of my guitars. I even found a purple PRS Hollowbody that I forgot (!) I had. WTF is wrong with me? Don't answer that. Or ... I don't even know what this colour is (looks "mauve" to me), but I like it: https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Electric-Guitar/MOD-RAM020298/Metallic-Zinnia

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

No, it's Netflix. It might be a country thing. https://www.netflix.com/title/81167119

Main actress is the same as the one I was smitten with from Alchemy of Souls. Main actor is playing a handsome, charistmatic, eccentric, neurodivergent cat-lover. They accidentally move in together, not knowing they are opposite sexes. Hilarity and drama ensue.

Happy birthday, Colin! May all your skin stay on from this day forth. (party favour noise)

New Hania Rami

I guess I see what I want to see. 🤣