Dusty Chalk

[in my best Shirley Temple voice, which, admittedly, is not very good]Oh my goo'ness.[/shirley temple voice] http://vimeo.com/54953791

What stirred all this interest in 'Girls' all of a sudden? I've been hearing it outside this forum as well. Like, within the last 48 hours.

And coincidentally, that was my first thought as well. And then I had a sad about Twinkees' demise all over again. Even though I never eat them, it was kind of nice to know that they were out there. Now I'm going to have to go and have some Capt'n Crunch with ice cold whole milk for my sweetness overload. Two fortune cookie fortunes I had recently: "Too bad you don't" was my first thought. "...in bed", really? That's one place where I do not work hard.

Chromaphone samples -- seriously groovy physical modeling based on hit/tapped/struck membranes/objects/etc.

Happy Birthday! (party favour noise)

Yeah, I accidentally updated my sister's iTunes to 11, and didn't stop apologizing when I realize what I'd done. Even after she said, "don't worry about it", I still kept apologizing.

Unfortunately, Spotify does not have all of Blow by Blow. It does have Wired, though. And...yeah, this and Chick Corea/Return to Forever/Al Di Meola are -- to me -- the ultimate music. I would love to make music even half as good as this.

Jeff Beck, "She's a Woman"/"Scatterbrain"/"Cause We've Ended as Lovers"/"Freeway Jam"/"Diamond Dust", from Best of Beck and Beckology

...which is weird, because it's targeted specifically at Android tablets 7 inches and up. Also, I just tried to buy it in anticipation of my future Nexus 10, and it won't let me. It needs a compatible device now.

And "banana bunker": I actually do know what that is, but it's hard not to laugh.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/best-mugs-2012?page=16 Amish Mafia?

Jekyl -- another Moffat. Lots of delightful bon mots. "I have to go home and change."

Thanks for the synopses....ses.

Bad shilling is worst shilling. I mean, c'mon, you're not even trying to establish why we should believe your opinion over others. That would be like me saying, "oh, Monster is the least litigious company." Not only would I be wrong, but I'd be displaying my wrongness to a bunch of people who know better.

Happy Birthday, John! (party favour noise)

Crack the Sky, Ostrich -- love these guys, rather uncategorizable, because they drift back and forth between funk, jam band, prog, and indie/alternative.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453562/'>42

You'll have to save 42 for another night then. Except is that more like suffrage? No, that's not the right word for it neither.

Finished Luther, t'was awesome, can't wait for Season 3, wishing for an Alice spin-off.

I am totally digging it -- found it in my Kindle queue, but can't remember why I'm reading it. I thought you recommended it. Or maybe it was Neil Gaiman. I forget...

Me: somehow managed to start three books -- the aforementioned John Dies at the End (large paperback, does not travel well), Hide Me Among the Graves (via Kindle app on mah phoneblet, can read it anywhere and have it with me), and started the next Dresden Files novel, whose name escapes me.

It's not a "tablet" if it's 20 inches, is it? "-let" is to make the word diminutive, so should this be a "table"? Alright, no, tablet comes from "slab of stone", so maybe it should be called a "slab". "Slate"? What's a good augmentative? Superblet. Megablet. Maxiblet. Whatevs. 4K? Want.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! What is it with the exclamation points? Also: various artists, Where Stalks the Sandman -- a collection of damnbient stuff, including one from Steven Wilson that sounds like one of Fripp's Frippertronics pieces (basically, loops with stuff, arguably "with stuff")

Is that like a prep course? You'll do fine.