Dusty Chalk

Knucks introduced me to my new favourite obsession last night: Border 50 by Master Margherita. It's dubby, and downtempo, and super chill with an absolutely glacial pace. I skimmed through the first track of a couple of other of his albums, and none of them are like this one, but the rest of the tracks on this one are of a similar ilk as the one track he played, so I will be adding this album to my studying playlist.

Not sure what your threshold is, but if you like your prog borderline avant, I highly recommend Wax People (recent EP release) and All Traps on Earth (several year old album -- kinda Zeuhl, vaguely jazzy (in the same way that A Passion Play is vaguely jazzy), mostly instrumental symphonic prog, very great). Me:

FYI for fans of this album: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/trout-mask-replica-captain-beefheart-streaming-1193345/ Me, listening to study music while studying (it's kind of slapdash, intended to be listened to on random, as there's some repetition which I haven't bothered separating out:

Egad, I think the church had fewer rifts.

That's really great!

The sophomore album from progressive rock band, OSI (largely Kevin Moore from Dream Theater's early work and Chroma Key on keys and vocals, and guitarist Jim Matheos from Fates Warning), Free got released to streaming, and since I can't find my CD copy, I'm listening to it now, after which I will return to my regularly scheduled study music. Example:

Wait, those are two completely different things. Motu M4 is a 4x4 interface, the dbx 286s is a channel strip. What is it you need, again?

Now listening to the original:

Looks scrumptious! Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

Example: Oh, dang, I can't insert an mp3. Okay, but it takes zip, so let's see if this works chipmunks cover glass - koyaanisqatsi.zip

Delicious leftover bulgogi don from yesterday's dinner at Sushi Jin with some friends IRL. It was just an insane amount of food. I had 1/3 yesterday (with pictured miso soup, and some not-pictured sushi) and the rest today, and overate both times, so it was at least 4 meals. Example:

Aw, man, the pics got deleted. Anyway, morbid warning: this is a story about a death, and it's very sad. If I seem intolerant to bullying, it's not because I feel bullied, but it's because I think we should practice not bullying, so that we can be legitimately and righteously indignant to the real bullies. This is bullying to the extreme. Fuck Kiwifarms.

Happy birthday, Greg! (party favour noise)

Examples: "...If I had a dick, would you know it? If I had a dick, would you blow it?..." XD Goddamn, I love Shirley.

Happy birthday, Justin! (party favour noise)

This. When I do my vocal lessons, I have to be really careful -- even though I have acoustically absorbative barriers between my monitors and my microphone, sound has a tendency to go around barriers, so you can't possibly sound-proof-ily seal between the mic and the speaker, but you can do things to minimize them. One is to use omnidirectional microphones everywhere, but especially on that amp. Shotgun microphones are even more directional, so perhaps you need a shotgun microphone for that particular type of application. But the important thing is not just to look at that particular signal chain (both electrical and acoustic), but secondary ones as well. If one of the other monitors is bleeding into one of the other microphones, that could be your problem. Or headphones. But yes, feedback destroyers exist (I'm sure Aaron used them with Thing3, considering how loud they played) and they've gotten to the point where they're dynamic -- they pop in and notch filter the feedback out -- and then they pop out, so they don't degrade the signal with a permanent notch filter.

Mmm...Tito Puente is good stuff!