Heartland

Zoon, at high volume, whilst barreling through the Tennessee night in a rented camaro (black, of course) with my brother in law. 13 hours to go.

I am sorry to hear it, Bartek. Get well soon, all y'all.

FWIW, Gift is one of my all-time favorite records, and I'd love a remastered version. But If Andy is in a position where he doesn't actually need to do these things, then good for him (as much as I'd like this and a new record).

I wonder why they used a mirror image of the Moon If I had to guess, the designer wanted the treeline to look like it is descending, and since we read left-to-right in the West, flipped it that way. Just a guess though. Now that I am thinking about it, it also helps create a sense of motion from le...

Mulled Guinness. It’s surprisingly good.

dealing with identity theft (which has thankfully distracted me from events 14 blocks west of me yesterday. What a weird thing to be thankful for).

Waiting for a new range to be delivered for our kitchen... only to get a call telling me the truck broke down and we’ve got to reschedule for Monday or Tuesday.

Here’s a very interesting (and technical) piece on the vaccine by Jerry Coyne (emeritus, Chicago): https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2020/12/ ... f-science/

Lithuanian Christmas pop all day today

I can't be the only person who now looks at tour dates and thinks "I'll buy a ticket for the last one", as it might be the last one.. Cos there will be a last one. And then thinks about how the feck do |I get there? Which was Madrid (exciting|!) and is now Wroclaw... We had tickets to the show in T...

I've had it on all morning while slogging through term papers and final exams, and enjoying the first snow I've seen since 2018.

I like the Bad Seeds plenty, too, though I lose interest in the band around the same time Blixa Bargeld lost interest in the band. I can't even wrap my head around what the Birthday Party must've been like live. I remember the first time I heard them I was just floored.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fye.com%2Fon%2Fdemandware.static%2F-%2FSites-fye-master%2Fdefault%2Fdwea925fc5%2Faec%2Funi%2Funip40%2Faec.unip4042353.1_0.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 I don't think I've listened to this in almost 20 years. What a phenomenal band they were. I still ...

Bartek wrote: ↑

25 Nov 2020, 14:37

Just to spoil fun, i got in my memory trace that AE once said that he can't play guitar and sing simultaneously, so i guess it goes along with playing piano.

I seem to recall he once commented he can barely play guitar and stand up at the same time.

My wife laughs at me because everywhere we go, I want to find a way to move there. Overall, I am pretty happy with living in DC (we are about 20 minutes east of SCOTUS on foot), but getting out into the clean mountain air was absolutely wonderful, and so was the quiet. Here, the sirens are pretty re...

Don’t tempt me! My wife loves DC though, and we have a cat waiting for us. But I think for what we pay to live in the city we could get a beautiful old farmhouse on 11 acres out here, where it’s clean and quiet and beautiful.

Sitting outdoors on a working vacation in the mountains of West Virginia, and wondering why the hell I would ever want to go back to DC.

Yes, spring next year strikes me as wildly optimistic. I just got this in my email from Johns Hopkins: https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/11/11/pfizer-v ... 37eaf299d9

Pfizer claims to have a vaccine that is 90% effective. We’ll see.

Everything she touches seems to be good (can't say I really care for the name though).

Oh yeah; I've been a fan of his ever since someone played 16 Horsepower's Low Estate for me back in the mid-90's.

OLDFART wrote: ↑

04 Nov 2020, 18:03

WOVENHAND - Refractory Obdurate .

Great band, great record. I think the last show I saw before the lockdowns was Om & Wovenhand at the Black Cat in DC. Pretty phenomenal.

Damn. That’s fantastic.