Dusty Chalk

Year of No Light, Ausserwelt -- gaze-y instrumental post-metal -- melikey.

It's only an 8 hour drive (5 via google maps, plus three for stopping at Once Upon a Vine & Once Upon a Vine South). (wanders off to check Amtrak schedules)

Giant Chewy Nerds I should probably eat something more healthy for me, but for some reason, I have a case of the munchies. ("Hey hey we're the munchies...")

Good call on this one, I can tell it's going to be a repeat listener. It's got a certain Ghost-like quality to it, but it's all rather low-key.

<whine>I just found out today that a concert I was going to go to tomorrow was canceled (Killing Joke). Same thing happened several weeks ago -- Social Distortion canceled. Plus I was sick for the Epica show.</whine>

Green apple flavored Hi-Chew.

Apogee Mini-DAC? No remote? Firewire is an option. Musical Fidelity X-Can V8p? Again, no remote (this time, I'm sure). Comes with USB, though, but no Toslink. Headroom something? The one that comes with the speakers?

That covers the prostitute part, where does the intellectual-ality come in?

Once. A looooooooong time ago.

We didn't have no "cyberschool" when I was a kid.

Cerberus Shoal, Elements of Structure/Permanence

I think she was asking whether or not it was user error, or a characteristic of the kit.

Mr. Beer is the big name in home brew kits, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best first choice -- I've even seen these at Total Wine. So confirmation from someone who knows better would be nice.

Chilly Gonzales, Ivory Tower -- how is it I've never heard of this guy before? He's huge, and he's been around forever. Accompanied Peaches on her one-woman reworking of Jesus Christ Superstar; produced, remixed, and recorded and whatnot a brazillion peoples; pianist extraordinaire; Guiness Book of World Records record-holder. Chilly Gonzales: How I wrote ... The Grudge | Music | guardian.co.uk (not the same as the album version) YouTube - Rollin' & Scratchin' (Chilly Gonzales Piano Rework) // Daft Punk

Looked more like frozen strawberries or raspberries -- can I go with frozen raspberry-covered melting chocolate please? Frozen Yak Shit is one of those foodie "delicacy" things that I don't get, no?

Jay Munly, Jimmy Carter Syndrome -- if this is anywhere near as strong as the first track ("My Darling Sambo"?), I can tell this is going to be a sleeper hit with me...kind of reminds me of later Spiritualized, in the confidence of the delivery, the gospel-y aspects, and the roots-ish-ness to it...

I was distracted by (a) the complete lack of fat jowls, and/or ( how happy he looks.

Dusty thinks those are awesome, but what is that third one?

Made my co-worker get a pair. She came back and asked me to get a second pair for her. (She flies a lot, and I'd be hard-pressed to convince her to get an external amp.)

^ That's because IDM is one of the more loosely used pigeonholes, but "yah" to the "I hate genres" comment -- the musicians make music. They don't think beforehand, "what kind of music should I make?" They make the music first, and then afterwards, when someone asks what kind of music they make, then they try to describe it. On a lighter note -- not really full-on IDM, but ambient-ish:

His half of the conversation probably went something like this: "Hi, nice to meet you, you look like you might be really cute under all that make up, so...you're going to scare the crap out of me, and I'm going to kill you a violent death? I'm not sure I can do that to such a pretty little girl...oh, don't cry, your makeup is very convincing, you're a very scary zombie..."

In just under 10 hours (so...2-something, EST?), Etymotic ER-6i's will be going on sale for some unknown price (presumably less than their regular $73 price) at Amazon as part of their cyber week promotion. (I'm guessing Cyber Monday didn't go well enough for them, so they brought out some more deals.)

Ran out of gas, amongst other things. Haven't done that in like forever.

Yeah, otherwise you wouldn't be able to reign supreme over team dead-fucking last...(I think the first one that said anything was Mike).