Dusty Chalk

A little late for Ravel's 150th, but this was my great (ahem) gateway to Ravel's orchestrating genius. I heard his orchestration before I heard Mussorgsky's solo piano version, and have since fallen in love with his genius. Even from his treatment of the opening Promenade, there's a bit more breadth, a bit more gravitas, a bit more there there. Not afraid to solo instruments, or interleave solo instruments against a delicate backdrop of small subsets of the orchestra, it is a masterpiece of restraint. cf. "The Old Castle" movement All the better to contrast the bombast. cf. "The Great Gates of Kiev" movement

It's Ravel's 150th, so listening to some Ravel -- soloists Yuja Wang, Martha Argerich, Heifetz, et al. Will try to squeak in some orchestral works or his arrangement of Pictures.

I love this thumbnail ...anyway, here's Elvis Costello:

Happy birthday, fren! (party favour noise)

In the mood for Impressionism, so...

Lots and lots of Bjørn Riis -- did an entire discog run and then some (repeated many tracks) "He really digs Pink Floyd" Example: Now listen to Creatures of the Night

I actually gave someone an existential crisis by posting this elsewhere:

https://corvidresearch.blog/2018/12/21/a-matter-of-a-pinion/

RIP Karen. My sincerest condolences.

Michelle Trachtenberg, at the age of 39 Foul play is not suspected, as she was recently recipient of a liver transplant and may have been experiencing complications, but an autopsy will be performed A friend of mine recently was the recipient of a kidney transplant, so this ... makes me nervous. So far so good, though (for him).

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

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I am now thinking of Corgis, for some reason.

Ah, fuck, happy belated birthday, Colin! Or maybe almost I got half an hour on the West coast, maybe? (party favour noise)

@Augsburger thought of you the other day when I was contemplating what to get from a local H-mart. Delicious, can recommend.

Happy belated birthday, Jeff! (party favour noise)

Saw this, made me think of you people: That speaker placement at the end, though. (cringe)

So...you're now a "vaccine influencer"? Is that like the opposite of a denier? Me: I started learning Rust.

Ah, thankewe.

What happened to the M2 iPad? I thought I read where they were going to give the iPad Mundane (easier to say than 'non-Pro, non-Mini, non-Air') the M2 chip. Or is that going to be one of those "silent" releases?

Happy belated! Hope it was great! (party favour noise)

If I had any money at all, I'd be supporting this. I would LOVE to get my name in the credits: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_jE2-dPn_P/