Watching Big Brother, tonight. I have never seen such a meltdown and so many tears so early in the season.
That feeling when you read an article on any topic that can be summarized with the statement “Still, nobody knows.”
DNC better come in hot with real alternatives
Recoil’s Want - The Architect Mixes were released in 2010, but are still available for download. The 24-bit WAV files are amazing. There is a video set to the first track, but I haven’t found that for download, yet. The lyrics were my introduction to Nicole Blackman.
http://www.recoil.co.uk/downloads/want-the-architect-mixes/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Blackman
EBN - Electronic Behavior Control System — For those who appreciate a little commentary with their beats. Though the track was composed circa 1995, and the video clips and technology come from another era, it still hits.
Currently reading: The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness 📚
The All Souls series is the first I have been excited about in a very long time. Going to dig in to this one tonight. Witches, Vampies, Demons. No zombies—at least none that I recall in the first four books.
A lot of my physical music collection features notches and drilled holes. I don’t care. Get it any way you can. Right?
Tonight’s niche pick is Round the Outside! Round the Outside! by Malcolm Mclaren and The World Famous Supreme Team Show, which I rescued from a cut-out bin in the early 90s. I especially enjoy two tracks: Buffalo Gals II (Remix) and Un coche de agua negra.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/round-the-outside-round-the-outside/714940076 https://music.apple.com/us/album/buffalo-gals-ii-remix/714940076?i=714940406 https://music.apple.com/us/album/un-coche-de-agua-negra/714940076?i=714940426
Alas, my Series 4 Apple Watch and my 2019 MacBook Air are not going to get the next OS releases this fall. Everything else is rolling forward and I will have to think about what eventually will get replaced or recycled.
Spent the night with an awesome group of people hosted in Minneapolis to hear Chuck LeMonds.
https://chucklemonds2.bandcamp.com/album/album-sacred-gossip-2023
Me and my Little Buddy
When your mom is a Queen super fan and she takes you to One Vision of Queen at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair
I’m federated everywhere I can, except on Meta products. I want them to be endpoints and Meta wants me to put them at the top of the pyramid. If they allow inbound posting, I’ll include them, too. Deleted X a while back. Occasionally I follow a link to a post there but generally don’t miss it.
Blasted my ears tonight doing yard work and listening to Echodrone. I have favorited Tranquility and Energy on their new album The Curvature of Sound.
https://www.echodrone.com https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-curvature-of-sound/1752256446
We all want to be seen and accepted just as we are.
Many of us have been taught again and again to keep our masks tightly in place.
Because of terrible things visited on us by those whose acceptance we have sought, we visit those things on others.
Reinforcing the patterns we wish to break.
I am amazed. I haven’t had a hibiscus bloom like this before
📷🌺
One fun thing in the midst of my CD Re-rip project has been digging into the contents of the “Enhanced CD.”
For the most part, I just grab anything that has the MOV extension.
But it’s a window into a brief period of history when playing video on our computers was amazing. Further, it made production se... 1-1.hjalmer.com https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2024/07/05/one-fun-thing.html
23andMe is running a decent promotion for July 4th in the USA: $79, down from $119
Just did Ancestry DNA. The surprised at the regional focus. My genetic background is less diffuse than others close to me. Nearly half Swedish and Norwegian. The percentage of German is actually lower than I anticipated.
