Dusty Chalk

Angel box set on Amazon Goldbox

It needs to come in moar blak. Only for the accents -- I doubt mop's rigidity as an enclosure material.

And what's that other thing, a shovel?

I don't think it's hideous...it's just "not me".

Just got an email from Amazon yesterday announcing the iPod classic 7th gen, so it looks like they haven't killed it (hooray!).

(jumps on the "Save Fitz!" bandwagon as well)

Grizzly Bear, Horn of Plenty

I definitely like the look of that speaker, if nothing else.

"The tiger dreams only of death." "Retail approximations of affections that will never replace a real father-daughter relationship." They are both awesome. Whoever wrote that is awesome.

I <3 Chick Corea (makes mental note to find that) Me: !!!, Strange Weather, Isn't It? -- groovy. Also Talking Heads-y.

Classic. "...take the odd Jesus Christ out..." Cleese: Well, shall we? Chapman: I don't know, I like him, I thought maybe we could spin off a whole movie about him. Idle: We could make him into a crossdresser. Gilliam: But I've already snipped out all these wonderful pictures...(mimes Christ with hands out as if being crucified) (continues further off topic)

crap on (a) crack(er)? Thankewe, thankewe, remember to tip your waitress, and try the veal.

Ta.

The argument goes something like this: Prof: You're off topic! Jin: But everything reduces to mathses.

Weird. Sucks to be me. I guess I'll just stick to all topics, then.

Friendly Fires -- indie poprock goodness. Mmmm...Talking Heads-y. Yeah, they're kind of IDM, kind of ambient. If you like it...well, there really isn't anything else quite like Music Has the Right to Children, but you may want to investigate further in: IDM, ambient, electro. Probably Orbital's Snivilization and In Sides are the closest touchpoints.

No Ordinary Family -- Main characters are certainly charismatic...we'll see.

Don't get me wrong -- the headphone amp shootout that Absolute Sound ran a decade ago at this point influenced my buying and trying of the AudioValve and the Wheatfield, neither of which I was unhappy with, but I don't always agree with their conclusions (they preferred the E.A.R. HP-4 over everything else, IIRC, which I was least happy with, of that trio of products). And really, the only way to know is to buy it and install it in your home system for long enough to have an opinion stabilize. We're not talking a long time here -- 2 weeks to a month should be sufficient. I mean, you can ask for Right of First Refusal from the person you sell it to (meaning they have to sell it to you at some future date if you ask for it back, usually at the same price, but at some predetermined price, and with some predetermined deadline [and of course within some predetermined timeframe -- I.E. you can't ask for it back in 50 years] [and there are, of course, other issues -- like what do you do if they end up not in the condition they were in, that needs to be predetermined as well]). But if that person is a distance away, then it's practically honor system anyway. If I were you, I'd convince the wife that it really isn't a good idea to sell one before buying the other. Just make sure and promise her a month max or something (plus however long it takes to sell, if you're friend who wants to buy the Apogees isn't willing to do that for you). You know how to read reviews, right? When he says he can't live with the Stax exclusively, but he can with the Quads, that's code for, "maybe not such a good idea". Seriously, I would make sure that's a decision I wouldn't regret before letting your Apogees go.

For some reason, "latest updates" doesn't show the "what are you drinking now?" thread. I'm sure there are others, but that's the only one that I regularly miss. If I click over to "all threads", it shows up. Is it that it doesn't show stickies, perhaps?

I would at least keep the Apogees long enough to decide for yourself...that you're not making a mistake. I use reviews as guidance, not gospel.

That's pretty much the original bromance.

I approve of his fashion sense -- or does everyone there dress in dark colors, you know, to absorb the sun's radiation?

Void of Silence, Grave of Civilization -- funereal doomy dirge metal, yes again, love this album. Much of the vocals are practically howled in pain. Also, noticed that it follows the noun-preposition-noun form of Shape of Despair's Angels of Distress -- is there something artier about saying that, as opposed to say, Silence Void, Civilization Grave or Despair Shape, Distress Angels? Just an abstract question, not really expecting an answer. I mean, don't get me wrong, I've done the same thing myself, I'm just wondering what the reasoning is. (Named one of my previous "projects", The Aerodynamics of Chaff -- for which the reconstruction, "Chaff Aerodynamics", just doesn't work as well. Despair Shape, in particular, does not have the same poetic quality as does Shape Of Despair.)