Dusty Chalk

This.

The live video is pretty watchable, too.

Yello by Yello, The Anthology -- resuming this. I think I may have to jack these guys up to my Top X Favorite Artists list.

Finished 3rd disk of Blade of the Immortal. Yargh! Really wish they had finished this, it was a really good take on the manga. And what an awful place to stop. They even got the language right (in the author's notes in the manga, he mentions that he deliberately uses different styles in a deliberately incongruous and sometimes anachronistic style), without beating you on the head with it. It's much more subtle in the show than in the manga, although Sabato Kuroi was nicely pretentious with his poetry. And the more introspective scenes were nicely patient. So maybe not the best anime you've never seen, but an excellent take on the best manga you've never read.

Pfff...I can hardly remember my name from day to day.

Okay, I forgot. This is an excellent suggestion, and superimposes the coffee table book suggestion very heartily.

I can't even confirm that it's still being published, that's how out of superhero comics I am. I would find your nearest comics establishment and ask the help there. By 'help', I mean either the guy behind the counter, or the one on your side talking to him -- for some reason, they always come in twos like that. One that works there, and one that just knows a lot. There's a service for finding your nearest comics establishment (yes, besides maps.google.com), but I forget what it is. Something off wizard, I think. Well, there's this one. You don't have to frequent the store or get a subscription there or anything, just go in with your question, they'll help you find it. I remember walking by what looked like a really good one when I was in NYC the other month, but I have absolutely zero recollection where it was.

Okay, this book totally rocks. I mean, it totally rocked before, but it is my new best friend now. One of the characters just said, ...with 'on' being italicized.

Jesus. I bet she's glad she has a friend like you today. I'm at a loss.

Community, "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design" -- this show rules.

Geccat! Who said the cat needed help? Maybe it wanted to be up there. I know I'd want to be up there if the alternative was an ass-Brazilian.

Hirsch had the...DAC3? I think...I remember it being really good. I don't remember it being non-exciting, but I also agree that it wasn't 'exciting', either. So...this sounds about right. But to me, non-fatiguing is more important than anything, so I was more willing than normal to forgive it anything else.

I ate Chinese again -- my fortune cookie fortune said, "Find some release." I was alone. You're looking at it all wrong -- they're headphones.

Have you heard the demos? Either Is This Desire? or Dry, depending on whether or not you want mature, or raw, respectively. MHO.

That actually sounds good -- CPK?

OH COME ON!!!1!

Kenna, New Sacred Cow -- one of my favorite, most repeatably listenable hard pop disks of all time.

(ponders this)

That first one could practically be transformed into a 3 Wolf Moon -type shirt.

I've seen them several times in person, and...yes. Yes she does. Let's put it this way -- she looks friggin' airbrushed in real life. I skipped Epica when they came through here earlier this week, because I wasn't feeling well. But at least I didn't get her sick this time. Did you get to see the original keyboardist this time?

Loved the turrets scene. Very Warner Bros. The rest of the book isn't as Warner Bros., but that was like Fifth Element meets Film Noir. I'm actually picturing Bogey playing the lead -- his face, uncolorized, digitally superimposed on Bruce Willis' head.

Nothing a good stiff drink can't fix. Here, try plugging in "Carry On by Fire Theft":

Thank you, you have just rendered the rest of my weekend worthless. Right up there with texts from last night.

This, coming from the guy with the shovel. Still gay. Still gay. Still gay. ... Ummm...at the same time? Doesn't matter, yes, still gay. Letmethinkabouthatforasecondyesstillgay. Nope, not at all. I mean, if you read it with the understanding that full sarcasm was on, then it completely undermines your point you were trying to make. And thank you atothex, that was exactly my point. And for the record -- I don't really care -- I mean, I did, but I'm over it now. It's not like I designed or made or even own the headphones, I just get real tired of being able to predict how this crowd is going to respond to certain things, plus or negative, irrespective of whether or not that opinion is well-founded. And yeah, it's the disagreement right there -- the fact that we can't all agree on whether or not other headphones from this company sound good -- that makes me believe that the question, is or isn't there just plain good sound? The answer is no, there isn't. People hear things differently. I mean, if it's justified, like the next Headamp amp (that would be one of the "plusses"), then yeah, sure, I'll be right there with you. But if you really don't know -- I mean, does AKG have a house sound? I would dare say, "no". How many headphones would you have to listen to then, before you can start predicting what the next one would sound like? I would dare say, you wouldn't.