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That's kind of the point. Connect with whomever you want for whatever reason you want. Hopefully it's for something more substantial than the color of their skin, but if not, no harm no foul. Diversity of appearance is the basest form of diversity.

Lazy. I never looked at Ricky Ricardo and felt any connection based on his looks. He looked like my uncles, big deal. Could he make me laugh, if not I'm changing the channel and watching Andy Griffith. No one in that town looked like me and I couldn't give a fuck. Didn't even cross my little wetback mind. Still doesn't even though I'm beaten over the head that it should. So many people put everyone else into little boxes. That's probably the woke movement's biggest failure. And it's an ironic failure at that. It's unfortunate that there are people who need such shallow validation, but even more unfortunate that so much of what we're sold caters to them and promotes these empty calories. Couldn't make it 20 minutes into an episode Velma and there's a shitton of little animated people in that show with an approximation of my skin color. They all sucked. Had they the less fortunate condition of having less pigment than me but written to be more entertaining or interesting, I'd still be watching. Diversity is great, but when I want to be entertained, it's way the fuck down the list. Entertainment has lost the plot.

It's worth having kids just so you can do that mid-90s Rescue Rangers/Ducktales/Gargoyles train of greatness and pretend you're doing it for the kids.

This news makes me tingly. I mean, I know you SAID '58 but I read R8 and was just proceeding accordingly. Surely you werent' talking about an honest to goodness 1958 made in the year of our lord 1958. This is beyond astonishing and I look forward to watching Lifetime TV movie of how this came to be.

I had a similar situation with the house I'm in now. I had a rat's nest of wires without labeling and they were bundled runs which included many colors other than red and white. I had to reverse engineer the whole layout to find out what colors went together and then to which of the 9 locations the pairs went. To wrangle it all I went with a Monoprice SS-Pro and it's worked wonderfully. It was worth it to me to keep using the in-walls over Sonos'ing the whole house. If your wires are all red/white pairs I imagine it would be even easier to do it yourself. (Brother, have you tried to get a contractor out to do anything is this day and age?)

Highlander

Same. The Archer has always been on the shortlist (I'm not putting anything on my board called a "Tumnus."). Plexi-Drive too.

The next 5 years or so are going to be devastating.

Wanted to circle back to this. This might be the most successful haul to date. Every one of these were stellar. In a Silent Way was expected, but side two of Milestones is some killer bebop that I've gone back to a few times already. It's bebop, but all grown up and polished. Side one of Jack Johnson was similarly eye-opening (side note, Jack talking at the end of side 2 came out of nowhere and startled me good. Lol). I don't know how I missed I Robot, but I'm glad to have discovered it. I knew of Alan Parsons from his Pink Floyd connection, so it's odd to me that it took this long. And if you haven't, Suite Judy Blue Eyes post-haste. After Thriller, this is my second favorite One Step of the year and I'm not much a CSN fan. But I am getting pretty damn old so that might be changing. Bill Evans is Bill Evans, dude's a witch. This One Step is the best I've heard Portrait sound. I'm refusing to get the AP Riverside box on principle so maybe this is the best I'll ever hear it sound. Also, there was a cool documentary on Bill Evans that came out in 2015 called Time Remembered. Worth a watch.

Wow. One of the greats who has an unimpeachable place among the most influential guitarists but whose catalog I know hardly anything about. He's up there with Rory Gallagher shredding on some songs I've still never heard but, if the rest of the guitar playing community is any indication, are probably pretty damn awesome. RIP

To be fair, that period produced a some great soundtracks, too. Like,

$150 shipped. Still have eyes peeled for Sunday at the Village Vanguard but ffs.

A few things, imo. You can tell it's a AAAA top from a mile away. Quilted is pretty rare, I think, on HPs which might be my favorite iteration of LP Standards Gibson ever attempted with their main line releases. Though 2018 is my least favorite or that run, I still appreciate some of the chances on the 2018 that lead to a more playable/better user experience guitar (I think this was the only year where the necks were Plek'd AND cryo'd as standard, for instance). If this was a 2016-2017 HP I wouldn't even be asking you jokers, I'd just be posting about how I screwed up the paint and help me plz. I'm even down with the Tronical because I'm old but not that old. Short story long, I've never seen quilted HP before (they always have those deep, gorgeous 3D-looking fuck you flame tops).

Well, damn. This is not giving me much confidence. We can put a man on the moon but can't remove some sharpie in 2022? What have we been doing with ourselves as a people? Offered him $2200, he replied that the best he could do $2700. I'm starting to wonder what I'm willing to live with to get that top because that top fucks.

So, hypothetically speaking, if one wanted to remove sharpie from a nitro guitar, a Magic Eraser should do the trick, no? Nitrocellulose is pourous and I expect it to hold onto the ink pretty well, but has anyone attempted something like this? https://reverb.com/item/61047082-gibson-les-paul-standard-hp-2018-mojave-fade-signed-by-leon-bridges I might make an offer, but if removing that signature fucks up the finish it's going to royally suck.

Thanks to your heads-up: Arrived today along with some other bougee pickups. Tonight's listening is all MoFi.

Came across this still sealed OG IV. It's so early that some notable songs are left off the hype sticker. If you're buying that album just to get those two songs, brother, you're in for a treat.

OP outlines the strongest argument that the last 20 years were not a golden age. (Side: OMW to download Gangs of New York because this is the second time this week someone mentioned that movie and I might be remembering it wrong.)

Anyone in OH care to pick up an amp? First time in about 3 years one of these came up for sale. #7 of 25 - CME - Marshall Astoria Custom - Black / Gold - with custom road case https://reverb.com/item/63846101-7-of-25-cme-marshall-astoria-custom-black-gold-with-custom-road-case?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=android-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=63846101

Chessup boards have begun shipping. So far I've received the board, bag, and checkers. Still waiting on the velvet pieces bag and the phone stand, but what has arrived has been of stellar quality. Played a quick game against the Ai after calibrating the board and everything went off without a hitch. Can already tell this is going to be a great product to learn/practice/improve chess and compete with.

If those were the rules he was following he would've faught Beth after ("You know the rules...") and knocked the shit out of her. That might've saved the scene.

There's been a development. Back when I was in college there was a home theater/hifi store on Burnet, just north of Anderson, whose name I can't recall, but I vividly remember the first time I saw Bowers and Wilkins 800 Series speakers. They had a pair hooked up to a small fortune worth of Mcintosh gear, including a pair of monoblocks the size of a Corolla. They demoed the setup with SACDs and the one I remember most was Kind of Blue (it made such an impression that I've used KoB as a favorite to demo gear since). But it was those gorgeous B+W Nautilus speakers that stole the show. They sounded so clean, so vibrant, so full, and most of all so sharp. I've since come to find out that the reason I liked the punchy treble of B+Ws is because that's how my brain discerns clarity, it's that top-end polish you get by boosted highs that conveys precision to me, but whatevs. We're talking about the speakers they use in Abbey Road and Skywalker Sound. There are pics of John Williams sitting in front of 800s, mixing. I mean, come on. I didn't really consider ever having any - they were ridiculous for a college student then and time doesn't really do much to devalue Bowers & Wilkins speakers compared to other brands, but I've always thought 800s to be the pinnacle of design, both looks and performance so have wanted them since I first saw them decades ago. Anyway, I bought a pair. Minty Nautilus 802's with brand new tweeters. (The tweeters are notoriously fragile.) I'm looking at them now and I still barely believe it. They're hooked up on the second zone of the pre/pro being served by about 400Wx2 carried by wire as thick as my wrist. I can't set them in the room in an ideal way, but I've pulled them forward to remove as much obstruction from the bass ports, but in a room that dictates so many compromises, this is another. Regardless, they sound sublime. In preparation, I had to redo the rack, eliminating the slanted rack posted earlier. I busted out the table saw and made a console, installed rack rails, and moved everything to the center of the wall leaving the speakers as much room as I possibly could. I'm not going to be mistaken for a Mennonite, but the gear is secure and organized. My biggest issue is that I had to take the door off the hinges to make room enough to walk in. I'll flip the hinges and have it open outward. I might just eliminate the Atlantic Technology speakers and make the front line all Bowers & Wilkins with a new center, but I like the idea of having dedicated HT speakers and a dedicated stereo setup for critical listening. Living the dream. Here's a cool factory tour. Really brings home what it takes to make 800s. Now I need to finish putting up acoustic treatments.

... who killed their son but he's cool with it because her mopeyness comes first.

When you're posting from a late-90s Cingular flip phone that charges by the letter you can't just spell out "Super Bowl." Do you think he's made of money?

Tone Masters sound great, but once you pick one up they sound really great.