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What, no QE2?

I seem to have started something.

I was organizing my records and came across this one on Saturday: I thought you would be proud of me for owning it, Duggeh. Not really on topic, but it is analog, at least.

Smelling flowers is awful sensitive for a pup who is brave as a bear! Cute dog. What breed(s)?

After seeing Ian's post I checked for Neko's tour schedule in this area, and was happy to see that she is playing at the FREE Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. This year's line-up is definitely the best evar: Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Todd Snider, Steve Earle & the Bluegrass Dukes, Natalie MacMaster, Malo, Dr. Magpie, Amadou & Mariam, Reckless Kelly, Red Wine, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson, MC Hammer, ODC/Dance, The Duhks, Hayes Carll, Roger Knox presents the Aboriginal Country & Western Songbook, Little Feat, The Brothers Comatose, Great American Taxi, Doc Watson & David Holt, Old Crow Medicine Show, Earl Scruggs, John Prine, Pamela Rose with Wild Women (and other friends), Darrell Scott Band, Dr. Dog, Elizabeth Cook, Fireants, Marianne Faithfull, Billy Bragg, The Chieftains, Aimee Mann, Lyle Lovett & His Large Band, Boz Scaggs and the Blue Velvet Band, The Flatlanders featuring: Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, Barefoot Nellies, The Claire Lynch Band, Allen Toussaint, Rosie Flores with Jon Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women, Poor Man's Whiskey, Abalone Dots, Billy Joe Shaver, Eliza Gilkyson, Dry Branch Fire Squad, The Wronglers, Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Old 97's, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Kimmie Rhodes, Richie Havens, Jorma Kaukonen, Neko Case, Booker T. & the Drive-By Truckers, Okkervil River, Austin Lounge Lizards, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, Mike Farris & the Roseland Rhythm Revue, Marshall Crenshaw, The Tim O'Brien Band, Buddy Miller, Hazel Dickens, Gillian Welch, World Party, Marty Stuart, Songwriter Circle w/ Tom Morello, Dar Williams, Steve Earle & Allison Moorer, Marley's Ghost w/ special guest Cowboy Jack Clement, The Del McCoury Band, The Knitters, Galactic, Emmylou Harris, Moonalice, Robert Earl Keen, Mavis Staples, Nick Lowe, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Robyn Hitchcock

Ditto, plus iLife '09.

As Grahame so aptly posted elsewhere, all you need to say is "Bon Jour No" and I bust up laughing.

Welcome, and if you have been paying attention in that year, you will have a good sense of what works here and what doesn't. Cheers.

Oh, Vicki, that is a horrible day! I hope your ankle feels better today and that all the hassle of the thefts is behind you soon. Have a better one today, maybe with a little BHSE therapy.

I love the Basterds. The Jew Hunter was a great actor and there were far fewer scalpings than I had imagined.

Alright, we will talk at the mini-meet.

See, JP is the common denominator. Now I know what I need.

When I first heard the music playing out of the amp, the K1000s were still plugged in and I only unplugged them for a moment or two in order to confirm that it wasn't them I was hearing. The amp was playing the music out loud, not humming, and the best comparison was what JP said while he heard it over the phone: it was like the AM radio version through a transistor radio. Weird. I just disconnected the pigtail and reattached the speaker cables. With no volume there is no sound coming from the amp. With low volume, there is no sound coming from the amp, and the same with higher volume. I put my ear right next to the trafos and the tubes (concerned about scorching my lobe) and there was no sound coming from them that I could hear. What I heard before, I would easily have heard again even with the speakers playing, but it wasn't there. Weirder. Maybe the higher load of the speakers has an impact? I think that earlier today when it happened was the first time I had used the pigtail, which is Equinox cable with silvered wire ends an 4-pin XLR. Last night and recently, I was using a APS pigtail that has banana plugs and 2x3-pin XLRs. No haunted music was playing when I used that pigtail and I was sitting on the ground right next to the amp last night. Super weird.

No cartridge in the CD player I was using.

So, I have owned the Moth 300B for years and have never once experienced what is happening right now. I was playing speakers through it earlier just fine, and was putting records on shelves, etc., so not being too critical. Wanted to switch to K1000s out the back so switched the speaker cables for the pigtail and went out on the porch. In order to adjust volume on the lousy recording I was listening to, I went into the room again and was thinking that the K1000s were really loud through the window and 10 feet away. But even after unplugging them from the pigtail, music played on quite audibly... So for some reason, this straight up power amp with now speakers attached is "playing" music. It is not a slight "singing" of tubes. I called JP who just recently borrowed the Moth (and obviously got is possessed by some spirtit at his place), and he could easily hear it over the phone. I have never once heard this and cannot understand what parts of the amp are projecting the tunes. Listening right now, the K1000s sound fine, too, so it does not seem to be "damaged." Well, I have to go make dinner and then see Inglorious Bastards with my wife. I hope somebody will have some kind of genius solution for the mystery later when I check back in. Thanks in advance.

You didn't know Birgir was a baby-daddy?

Of course you are invited in February, but if MOA II gets scheduled for March(ish) then would you really make two trips? Really?

I think you had better go back to badminton in athletic shoes.

I want some Brau

And yet, you are considering a Jag, the only good for the status champion? Seriously, chicks just can't dig a guy your age in a Prius. Simple as that. As for the environment/gas saving aspect, I think that air pollution/greenhouse gases/etc. are at the top of the heap, and the Lexus is a Super Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle and therefore much better than some of the sportier pure-gas competitors. Plus, it is the fastest sedan Lexus makes, so you got that going for you too!

I had two Audi A6s in a row and both were totally reliable. Honda and Toyota are out, Mike, those are non-starters for a man of your stature. Get the Lexus hybrid. I am loving mine.

That is some serious staying power! Congratulations on your family's achievement.

I have had this concept swirling around in my head since I saw the semi-drunk philodox post it. These are a few of the songs that bubbled up from the depths without too much analysis. For me, they fit the criteria. * The Who -- Behind Blue Eyes and My Generation and Sparks * U2 -- I Will Follow * Beck -- Loser * The Beatles -- Norwegian Wood and Day in the Life * Led Zeppelin -- Black Dog and Over the Hills and Far Away * The Kinks -- You Really Got Me and Waterloo Sunset * The Clash -- London Calling and Magnificent Seven * English Beat -- Mirror in the Bathroom * Muddy Waters -- Good Mornin Little School Girl * Miles Davis -- So What * Ornette Coleman -- Lonely Woman * Oliver Nelson -- Stolen Moments * Bill Evans -- Waltz for Debby * John Coltrane -- Chasin the Trane * Louis Armstrong -- What a Wonderful World Sheesh, that seems weird to just pick those, but all of them are perfect in their own way for me.

Pliny Birthday to you, Pliny Birthday to you, Pliny Birthday dear Matt the Younger, Pliny Birthday to you!!! Cheers, buddy! Looking forward to seeing you next month when I will buy you many beers to make up for the sadness that you will not be out here in February for Younger Time!

Sure you didn't. Fountains of Wayne -- Self Titled