Fellow Pixel owner/user here. I feel you on this. I didn't get to be the age that I am relying on prosthetic cognition/imagination and I don't intend to start now. Ugh

So sorry Imani

PEACE IN THE VALLEY * * * April 27 Toshi Makihara/ Peter Redgrave 華 0.1 Grand Dave Heumann/ Walker Teret 10$ bar open at 7pm - music at 8pm → Le Comptoir du Vin

Very much looking forward to this show next week in Baltimore at the back bar of Le Comptoir Du Vin

I'll be playing and singing acoustic guitar music with an esteemed long time collaborator of mine, Walker Teret. Do come through if you're around!

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A not-atypical lunch for me at home: yellow dal w fresh spinach and carrot pickle, with a couple slices of multigrain toast on the side

I seriously hadn't thought of "miss gredenko" for over 40 years, wow!

🎯

Sound guy shut off the PA and yelled at us

NO FUCKING COVERS DIDN'T YOU SEE THE SIGN

And I'm like oh sorry

Had no idea at the time Carefree Highway was a real highway in the Phoenix AZ metro area lol

Story time!

About 15-20 years ago I was on tour w Arbouretum and we had a Monday night show at a coffeehouse in Phoenix AZ. There was a sign there saying NO COVERS. Ok, whatever

Get to the end of the set, and figure it's time for one more, so we played Carefree Highway. Sound guy... (cont)

Very true....Synchronicity was indeed one of the first records I bought with my own money

I didn't love all their stuff and still don't, though I did and do respect their chops, and also Synchronicity II is a great song w amazing energy

Funny about that, there were other 80s bands who could really write songs and sing them well, but their public image was so much about clothes and hairstyles, like

Hall and Oates
Tears for Fears

& to an extent Men at Work, though Colin could do the weird eye thing, didn't fully fit the mold

Right! But the "boy band" thing didn't really stick to them so much (and I think you're right, the term wasn't yet in widespread use) because I believe the Taylor brothers at least had some cred as instrumentalists

Maaaan
I was working in a corporate record store in the early 90s and that tune was on their monthly "play tape" which had to be played over and over

Well anyway, that was one of the few songs that when it came on, I didn't mind. I still don't and will linger if it's playing somewhere

If you love American music, this is monumental. The clarity on this discovered test pressing reveals Johnson's genius to an even greater degree than the '61 re-release of his 29 songs. You can hear the stabbing slide and delicate fingering on every string. Amazing.

Track AIPAC: the Illusion of Accountability Scroll social media and you would think some corners of the far left have reduced politics to one purity test: Israel-linked donors.

I don't know about these guys
cwebbstudio.substack.com/p/track-aipac-the-illusion-of-accountability

Eddie Kramer was the producer/engineer for Hendrix et al, not photographer

This is good to know, as someone who is (aspirationally) in the market for an Ioniq 5. I'm looking at a lightly used 2022-24 one, which I believe come with the CCS port

That's awesome. The Limited looks like the one to get. Do you have one that accesses the supercharger network natively, or do you use an adapter for those?

Dave Heumann, wearing a Nirvana-influenced Arbouretum shirt, holding a stuffed tree cross-section

Went to Irvine Nature Center. Brilliant place. Glad I picked today to wear this shirt.

I had my friend Adam over at the house tonight recording, and my nearly-four-year-old son started calling him "Adamquarium", which is imo a hilariously clever nickname

This guy is totally full of shit. He invokes the spirit of 1776 without acknowledging that the people standing up to the current regime are much closer ideological kin to the founders in their fight against monarchy than he and his ilk are, and ever have been

No way, the correct answer is obviously diplodocus

Force at Full Price What Viktor Orbán's loss can teach us about Donald Trump's fate

"Every act of org'd non-co-op is a wdrawal from regime that cannot afford to pay full price for what it is doing. Every judge who writes sharp opinion. Every soldier who refuses unlawful order. Every Eur leader who builds workarnd. Every citizen who shows up at courthouse, school bd, town hall" READ

I know them, and they are

"And you're my fact-checking cous"

*apologies to S. Malkmus for paraphrasing his song lyric

Agreed
Definitely many more journalists here, and more musicians that are into similar aspects of the craft as I am
And people who write about music- also important to me!

Pretty much what it boils down to yep, and I guess it depends on one's followers but there are some things about the culture over there that clash a bit with my preferred ways of doing social media- reposting over favoriting (but no quote posts!), hashtag games...

Hey Stu, good to find you here. I regrettably haven't been on Masto as much these days

Tony Gonzales - Wikipedia

For those who don't know who he is and don't have a NYT subscription (waving at myself here), well here's this:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Go...

Better idea than her running for president again tbh

Hey, it was a blast for me too

Oh yeah I can totally see that, because doctors always dress in white and scarlet robes and emanate healing light from the palms of their hands