Aggie87

Ohh yeah! What's your verdict on this one? I saw the first show on the tour in 2022 in Toronto, and loved it. Was happy to see PT back together (well mostly - would've been nice if Colin Edwin had been involved, but whatever), but the show exceeded my expectations. I've got my vinyl set out to spin over the next couple days.

Caught RIckie Lee Jones on Friday night, followed by Kat Edmonson on Saturday. Rickie did well, but you can tell age has slowed her a bit. Kat's sort of a jazz/pop singer, originally from Texas but now based in New York. Her last album had guest appearances by Bill Frisell, Jaleel Shaw, and Avi Bortnick. Got to chat with her after the show for a bit, talking about our shared background in Austin.

You could also easily go with the lightbulb.

They had snow the day after we left.

It's a beautiful area! We spent a few days hiking in Joshua Tree National Park, which was stunning - far more beautiful than I expected. Felt like a giant Flintstones movie set, but real lol.

Joshua tree, Yucca Valley CA - 23 January 2025

How do you like this one? I'm tempted to pick it up, but haven't yet. I kinda fell back in love with the Breeders after seeing them open for the Foo Fighters in Oct 2023.

I've been visiting Waterloo almost as long as I can remember being in and around Austin starting in the early 80's. I don't remember visiting the first location at all, but spent plenty of time at the second (and Tower and Technophilia, and later Stashus Mule in the 90's, if anyone remembers that hole in the wall). Sort of bittersweet to see it relocating, but at least it's still operating, and seems to be in good shape moving forward.

Neil Young - Somewhere Under the Rainbow

Somewhere in Arizona, 29 December 2024

That is frustrating for me as well, for a different reason. In my town, the USPS does not deliver door to door. So everyone gets a PO Box for free (and the post office is only about 2 miles from my house, so mostly no big deal). However, every other service (Amazon, UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc), delivers to my door. So if something ships by UPS, I generally use my street address for delivery. But if they swap it out (like UPS Mail Innovations does) and give it to the Post Office for final delivery, it sometimes gets returned to the sender because it has a street address on it, and not a PO Box. Usually I can figure this out in advance and it's not a big deal, but occasionally it messes up. A package from Amazon UK did this - started with Amazon in England, used some other service for transport to the Royal Mail, transported to the US, picked up by UPS Mail Innovations in California, and then brought by UPS to my USPS box in Arizona. So 98% of that trip worked fine with my street address, but then needed a PO Box number for final delivery. Luckily I was able to intercept it at the Post Office and convince them to let me have it before they returned it to the UK.

Moby - Everything is Wrong

The Pineapple Thief is a fine band! Last time I saw them (2022 in Philly) I did the meet and greet. Bruce Soord is a fascinating musician. And got to meet Gavin Harrison, who to my ears is one of the best rock drummers out there today. I don't know how Harrison managed to juggle three significant bands at the same time - Pineapple Thief, King Crimson, and Porcupine Tree. Seems two of them are now in hiatus though.

The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies

Art of Noise - Influence

I think there are two sorts of members there - (1) audiophiles and (2) music fans in general (obviously with an overlap between them). I'm no audiophile, but I do love music, so I'm in group 2. For me I like hearing discussion about new releases across the spectrum of music, discovering old bands/artists that I didn't know as well when I was younger, and hearing differences of opinions about artists I like. It's usually fairly healthy discussion, and because it's a music in general board, it attracts more members than a jazz-centric board like this. I don't think it's going to change there any time soon, despite bulletin boards being a relic from an earlier digital age.

(Tom Petty - Long After Dark (some very good stuff on the new 2 disc edition)

Travis/Fripp - Live at Coventry Cathedral

We have a neighbor that's done this exact same thing the past 2 years, though with colored lights inside the skull and chest. Goes up mid October, comes down mid January.

I figured you might appreciate that combination. On to some live Neil Young today.

Saw a bobcat wandering around my house this morning but didn't have my cell phone handy (ha - "handy" is what Germans call cell phones) to capture a pic. So here's one I took near my garage a few months back. I don't remember if I posted this before or not.

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

Ray Wylie Hubbard - Growl

Had to share a hiking path with this javelina yesterday. He won, so we turned around.