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Happy birthday Jeffy!

Sorry to hear Lloyd, best wishes to the family.

I stopped looking at all of my brackets after Arizona lost. Miraculously, I ended up #1 in the only money bracket I entered and should get $70 or so. Woot!

Happy birthday Zach!

Took a month off of buying any new bottles. I think for April I'm going to grab a few budget bourbons. The top of my list includes Old Grand 114 (which I've tasted and really enjoyed), Evan Williams Single Barrel, and the upcoming release of Elmer T. Lee commemorative. Be on the lookout for that last one - I have a feeling it's going to sell very quickly. Hoping we'll see it near the end of the month.

Found this while searching through Chris Thile's discography on Spotify. What a fun album. Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile - The Goat Rodeo Sessions.

Happy birfday Doug!

Fucking Wisconsin.

Bump for a fun thread. I've not been in a music phase for a long time but find myself reinvigorated of late. This is hard, but I have to be true to my youth and not pretend that I frequently listen to anything earlier than 1990. 1. Tool - Lateralus. "Metaphysics" would have been another appropriate title. How Mike G. feels about In the Court of the Crimson King is how I feel about this. 2. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream. "Spaceboy" in particular is on perma-repeat but a bad track this album has not. 3. Beck - Sea Change. I can't think of a more personal album [to the artist, not the listener]. 4. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. This is the most listenable album I have ever heard in my entire life. "At Last" is a song to die by. 5. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles. It's ridiculous, chaotic, and absurd. And I love every single second of it. Honorable mentions: Radiohead - Kid A. The only release from them that I ever thought lived up to the hype. Pretty much perfect. A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms. The other side of Maynard and it is gloriously emotional. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes. Probably the most complex and delightfully-themed electronic album I've heard. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz at Oberlin. Always found this group to be the most listenable in all of jazz. The airiness in their sound is lovely. Brings me back to my decade+ of playing alto and makes me wish I still played. Andy McKee - Art of Motion. I would love to put a half-dozen acoustic records on here but I find Andy to be the most personable artist with perfect pedigree and influence and this record hits that spot-on. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn... Like everything in my life, 75% of the music I listen to now, I would never have experienced if I hadn't met Allison. This one album represents all of that. Opeth - Blackwater Park. I likelove nearly every album for them but I still think this one had true balance between metal and prog-rock. Also to be different from the other people who already posted Opeth. Okay I have to stop somewhere.

Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe.

Mastodon - Remission.

Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun.

LITE - Installation. Haven't listened to any math rock in ages. I like that this is a bit more electronic/progressive than some of their earlier stuff I've heard.

My bracket basically sucks but my final four is intact along with 7 of the elite 8. My best bracket is in a money pool with some college friends. I really should have followed that one, where I didn't send VCU to sweet 16 and correctly picked the entire section for ND State vs. NM State. I'll be rooting for UCLA this weekend .

Happy birthday Al! I anticipate a beer or two to cheers you with . And x2 on what JP said.

Long day of work ahead of me.

I absolutely LOL'd at the league password.

Interested.

x2 on all of this. I've been so happy with the brand of lenses I switched to last year that I lost interest in corrective surgery altogether. I'm happy for big brother though! Seeing 20/20 with nothing on your face or in your eyes will be quite a rush .

Woot!

Happy birfday Fitzy!

I do enjoy sherry cask aging for malts. It's really an appealing palate for anyone coming from bourbon. Not sure what to do next - I ought to get a bunch of glenfarclas samples before revisiting glendronach. I wish masterofmalt would offer samples for some of the single cask editions of glendronach. Would be worth it even at $10+.

You know it . We need to all come here in late winter/early spring. Literally zero line outside. In and out in 35 minutes on a Friday.

Hot Doug's for a very late lunch.

If anyone cares - I took some very short notes on my comparison today between Aberlour A'bunadh and Glendronach Cask Strength.