Laurie Anderson, "New Jersey Turnpike" (first time). Going to have to hear everything.

buy a guitar and an amp and a strap and some strap locks.

in your first 500 hours, moving a bit of air in your room with an amp is a lot more forgiving and flattering than headphones-interface-laptop.

prefer a slightly better amp to a slightly fancier guitar.

Retrofitted my oddball 1-P90 walnut solidbody with an end-of-the-neck Kent Armstrong mini humbucker, put the P90 in the parts box, added a switched version of the G&L treble/bass-cut controls, put in an hour with my multimeter to figure out where i'd got the wiring mixed up. Sounds good to me - ...

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:39 am A podcast transcript actually, with embedded audio should you rather listen.

State of US Journalism Is “Worst I’ve Ever Seen It,” Says Sarah Kendzior.

that was tough work to withstand, but i'm thankful i got to do it. thank you for sharing it here.

I'm 42, I'm very sedentary and I'm very, very overweight. I don't smoke or drink, which I guess has bought me some time so far, but I need to take better decisions. Last week I went to the doc to arrange a cardiovascular health screen - ten days from now - and once we know what's occurring over ther...

When I'm in a hole and need to find a way out, I tend to program a double feature. The second record switches around a lot, but the first one is almost always Edith Frost's Calling Over Time: the empathy and patience and clarity in those songs. I love it so much.

I saw, aged 17 and alone, the first fifteen minutes or so of Demons on satellite tv before feeling overwhelmed by the vibes and turning it off. For twenty years I presumed that the Italian horror thing was basically too sober and menacing for my taste. Two weeks ago I catch up to Demons on some stre...

Music For A New Society, John Cale. I can't think of one occasion where I've been able to listen to the entire thing without a break. It's quite something. I can certainly empathise with the impulse to rework the entire thing.