Dusty Chalk

Swans at least had that "indie hipster" cred to them, so Agalloch was the more shocking to me...but I was still surprised.

Agalloch, The Serpent & the Sphere on First Listen (!) Also, the new Swans, for those of you who know who they are. Someone's in a dark mood over at NPR.

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl)

Did you make enough for the whole class? Om nom nom nom nom

Mmmm...Kyuss...

Damon Albarn, Everyday Robots -- So. If Blur is an ensemble that contains Damon Albarn, and Gorillaz is Damon Albarn in virtual disguise, then what would an album by Damon Albarn actual sound like? It would sound exactly like this.

Chicken, spinach and garlic sausage from Wegmans. Sent from mah phone-blet via Tapatalk

Yeezh, remind me never to work out in the morning.

Inventions live stream (Explosions in the Sky + Eluvium, so pretty much post-rock^2)

Agreed. And she did ask for an awful lot.

48 hours to go, and barely over half funded...I don't think she's going to make it. Imogen Heap's Mi.Mu Glove

Yeah, my ex got a XV Crosstrek, that may very well be my next car. She's extremely happy with it, it's a really nice size, I want to say it's Tiguan sized (> Golf, < Touareg). If you want smaller, just get the Impreza, it's largely the same car.

I don't understand the aversion to non-sedans, hatchbacks and wagons are just so much more utilitarian. [/rant] Subaru has airbags freakin' everywhere -- they're famous for that. You may want to look at their sedan offerings. The Impreza (even non-WRX) is a pretty zippy little car.

Have you driven a Subaru yet? Dave bought an Outback because it felt nicer (read: not plastic everywhere) than the competition several years ago.

tUnE-yArDs Nikki Nack Brian Eno & Karl Hyde, Someday World

Kishi Bashi, Lighght Pacifika, Amor Planeta also on First Listen

You're right, I meant Focus (including that's the car my sister got).

I don't know, that's why I want to hear it for myself.

Anyone know anything about the Aune?

Yeah, that, too; I cued up a whole bunch of First Listen stuff.

about to switch to new Lykke Li on First Listen

But you said, "to encode" -- I just want to play back, neh?

Thanks, I will give that a try. I use AnyDVD HD to rip and used CyberLink PowerDVD (OEM w/Blu-Ray and 3D support) to play back, I rarely played back directly. But the problem I've been running into -- admittedly very minor is the loss of the subtitles during Dothrakian dialog, so this time I just wanted to watch the disk directly, because I had better luck with that last time. And now all of a sudden it's just not playing a disk at all ("prohibited"). I probably wouldn't have this problem at all on a linux box, but then I lose my external DAC.

It's been an Echolyn kind of day.