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Happy Birthday Jim! Enjoy your day!

I did, thanks! Gonna crank this all day today. The Clash -- Sound System (Box Set)

Volcano Choir -- Repave

Have been shit testing this all day and must say I'm very pleasantly surprised. Throwing all sorts of obscure stuff at the wall to see what sticks, and generally the depth of what comes back is impressive. Happily listening to "Durutti Column Radio" for the last hour or so now without a single skip. Win. (Must be leveraging off the effort already put into Genius over the last few years?)

On the plus side, the EP kicks ass. So the system works!

Lorde -- The Love Club First thing iTunes Radio has sold me, about 20 seconds into first hearing "Royals."

I did. Please save that one until we have a chance to get together!

Keane -- Strangeland You've got nothing to hide, you can't change who you really are. You can get a big house and a faster car. You can run away, boy, but you won't ... go ... far.

Thanks all. My Dad turned 92 this week too, so hopefully still a few good ones in prospect ... Should be an interesting year -- kinda looking forward to being on the move again.

Dog and elephant friends play fetch.

Happy Birthday Despak! Spin some platters!

New Neko Case. This is going to be on for a while ...

RIP Ray. Sounds like a good guy, who liked good sound.

This was not at all what I expected. Do like though.

She can have my 4S, Nate. Will be a month or so probably before I can sneak an unlocked 5S in from the UK -- let me know if that's too long to wait.

In for the 5S! A very Apple solution on the fingerprint scanner. Utterly obvious, now. The button you push to wake the device transparently determines if you're an authorized user. What better way to do it?* (* Assuming it actually works.)

Happy Birthday!

Okkervil River -- "Black Sheep Boy"

Mrs. went way off the reservation in London last week ...

Meanwhile, in Africa ...

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Happy Birthday Ian!

Veers toward self-promotion at the end, but still the most cogent narration of how-we-got-where-we-are-with-hi res that I've yet come across.