Dusty Chalk

I just made the most delicious Stroganoff I ever made in my entire life, and I am pretty sure it's ~50% plant based: Not plant-based: 1 lb. beef Plant-based: grilled onions (grilled to Maillard Reaction/partially caramelized perfection!) grilled mushrooms Sesame oil sesame seeds, both black and white chives oregano thyme?...maybe parsley, don't remember freshly ground black peppercorns freshly ground white peppercorns freshly ground pink peppercorns mushroom seasoning vegan Worcestershire vegetarian oyster mushroom sauce almond flour dairy-free sour cream garlic

Dusty does not hate jazz. Happy (belated) International Jazz Day, fans of the genre! I'm listening to this right now: My girl, Hiromi, will be on there later.

I was pretty sure Kikik (kitten) was going to eviscerate Bobby (senior), but she didn't.

Finished School Nurse Files -- short (6 episodes), weird (there's a lot of forced laughter, and demented smiles, and sometimes everyone seems to have those images on their phone cases), enjoyed.

And they also have this gorgeous, much less flamboyant, hand-dancing video that is just sublime:

Unrelated, this video is delightfully wack: Dude can move, too:

New Somali Yacht Club -- shoegaze-y stoner New Spiritualized -- psych/art rock

Blue Man Group w/Venus Hum do a great cover of it, and it's always a highlight every time I've seen them live. Bronski Beat also do a cover.

I went down an 80's rabbit hole. It surprised me which albums had the most tracks I loved: Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84), but not Sparkle in the Rain Joe Jackson Beat Crazy but not any of the others Ultravox Vienna (not surprised) Yello One Second and Stella (not surprised) Red Guitars Slow to Fade Wire The Ideal Copy

Happy Birthday, Jeffy! (party favour noise)

It would not kill me, not even close. It would fulfill me.

Condolences, Knucks. My heart goes out to you.

Whoa! You're getting some really great piano-like transients -- is that really modular?!?!? I'd love for you to share some recipes/visuals...did you ever think of streaming this/Twitch.tv kind of thing? You'd probably have an instant audience, and I don't just mean head-case (muffwigglers/modwigglers/&c.).

Oooh, I see Medeski and Fiuczynski (I've been listening to a lot of Hiromi lately, and the latter is a frequent collaborator), very interested, thank you for mentioning it.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/06/fungi-electrical-impulses-human-language-study?utm_source=pocket-newtab

"Tit-Bits" Science Fiction Library

I have created alcohol free whiskey -- I like the flavour anyway. Pretty simple: Boil away the alcohol Cool Drink! EDIT: April Fool's!

Finally went out and saw a concert last Friday -- Zombi -- multi-instrumentalist (synths, bass, and the occasional sax) and drummer -- was a great first concert

Happy belated birthday, Duggeh! (party favour noise)

New Placebo is super chill but still great New Stabbing Westward is 🔥 New old Flummox re-recorded is tomorrow It's a good week.

A keyboardist friend posted that to a keyboardist Discord server, saying, "this is why we practice our arpeggios". I almost responded with, "if any of us are even in the same ballpark as Hiromi, I'll..." (I didn't post, didn't know how to finish that sentence.) She's easily my favourite living keyboardist, bar none, and not just jazz, but of any genre.