In his defense, I also have a west facing window in my office and it is absolute ass trying to get anything done from 3-5.
Also, dude has obviously never worken up before 8am at any point since college, since you won't get a sunrise like that anywhere in California, and that's not what a Miami sunrise looks like
Yes, and that movement is fascism as they punish minorities
Have you ever actually worked in a factory? Things are way less automated than you would believe. I worked at a plastic injection molding company 5 years ago and we had exactly one press that would automatically apply stickers to the product once it came out, and it would break down constantly. Another factory i was hand sealing fiberglass sheets together for use in washing machines. Or when i worked at a tire factory, i was weighing out curing chemicals by hand into a scale, monitoring rubber coming out, and even handcutting rubber to recycle. The inly factories that have heavy automation are brand new, because management takes one look at the eyewatering price to repair automated equipment and find that it's cheaper to oay someone $20/ hour to do it by hand.
But what if the valve was actuated electronically with no manual access?
They're just mad and stupid and the left did nothing to manage and redirect this toddlerish rage and incompetence, instead we pretended the system was fair and the idiots wouldn't have power because how could they. Naive and foolish on both sides.
Liberals did all that. The actual leftists have been saying for decades that this was exactly where liberal centrism was going to end up as the Democrats did everything they could to keep funneling money up to the top as well.
These dudes are so much fun to watch. One i was out in my front porch (90 minutes from Dublin no less), high as shit listening to Caravan by Black Sabbath and one of. These guys started going to town on the tree branch above my head.
Yeah, this is pretty much intend to destroy St. Louis as a city and remove Missouri's last relevance on the national stage.
It's just because the way we understand transgender people has changed a lot in the last 50 years. Ultimately the guy accepts Lola for who she is, so I don't see how that can be considered bad, especially when the band has said for decades that they wrote the song to give trans people perception in the public eye.
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Letting tthe Republicans shoot themselves in the foot is very different than giving them everything they want on a silver platter.
I didn't intend it that way. But we are hittinng a precipe as boomers start dying off and a lot of great, but lesser known music will be forgotten about, e en if it canstill bee streamed. Artists like Tony Orlando, Mungo Jerry, Paul Revere and the Raiders, or Johhny Rovers will end up only being known by a niche group of music nerds much like big band and swing artists.
Idk how you can blame the Democrats for a shutdown when Republicans control all three bodies that can avert it
A friend got a basket full of vinyls from a friend of a friend getting rid of her dad's old stuff. Nothing too cool in the basket, just some reprints and mid level albums from the 80's, but free music is free music! I'm fine with Southern Rock for the most part, amd Hatchet is certainly entertaining enough. It's something you would put on while working in the garage.
Gather ye bairns, a couple tabs, and a pour yeself a pint o Brown, time for some canny tunes from the Toon!
As you can tell, i am a Midwestern Millennial, but Lindisfarne is one if my favorite bands. My mom is a Geordie, born and raised on the Tyne so i have spent more time in NW England than a lot of Southern Brits. I think Lindisfarne perfectly captures the spirit of Northumbira. Alan Hull wrote about 200 songs while working as a night nurse at a mental hospital in Newcastle, which is where Lady Eleanor was written. Geordies and Mackems might be tough blokes, but they are also very well read and educated compared to their Southern peers, and the lyrics of Lady Eleanor were inspired by Edgar Alan Poe's Eleonora and The Fall of the House of Usher. What i really like about Lindisfarne is the accessibility of the music compared to their contemporaries like Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, and Pentangle.
As for the vinyl, for reasons i haven't been able to find, the American versions, with Nicely Out of Tune taking a radically different design. It isn't a traditional sleeve, but a pocket with a carboard instert to protect the vinyl (forgive Boudica's intrusion, she just loves the record player).
Typically i just go to my discogs and select a random item from a my collection to keep my posts here a little varied. Today the algorithm gave me Graceland, and it seemed a perfect album to finish off 2024. Simon reminiscing about the past while looking ahead is perfect for today. The titualar song was about a road trip Simon took to Graceland with his son after his divorce to Carrie Fisher. It's a song about new beginnings and forgetting the troubles of your past, which is an approach i am happy to apply to the miserable year in which i came to understand what that girl in New York City means.
This is an original from 86 and is absolutely beautiful to listen to. The drum beats Simon would become famous for shine through as crisp as if they were in the room with you without smother the beautiful vocals and guitar work.
The top row came from my old neighbors in town, while the bottom row i pick up at Half Priced Books at my parents's place in Houston. Not big on Tyler, The Creator, but i listened to the Igor album with them and it was excellent! I'm super stoked about On Time though. GFR is one of my all tome favorite bands and this was the last of their original albums i was missing. I've been on a massive Prog and folk rock binge this past year, so i am alwo excited to add some more ELP to the collection as well. All in all, i added a lot of great records to my collection this year, and i am hoping for a bunch more in the next year!
I'm traveling to see my parents tomorrow, so I'm doing my Sunday Spin a day early. Today is a classic album, Business As Usual. Undeniably Men At Work's best album, it's a defining album of the 1980's. Who Can It Be Now and Down Under still take massive airtime on modern airwaves while secondary bangers like Be Good Johnny and People Just Love To Play With Words keep the album entertaining and fresh the whole way through in a away many bands fail at. The great thing about the album is it's super easy to get your hands on a great copy for cheap. Honestly it's probably the best value record you can have in a collection based on price (i paid $7 for this original American pressing), sound quality, and ease of finding since there are literally millions of them from the 80's alone floating around.
She's my little warrior queen. She's thougher than a bix of nails always trying to get her way.
Niniane is unhappy and has been hiding under the bed and hissing ever since we got home. She's curled up on the heating pad at the foot of the bed and she seems content woth that for now. She keeps hissong at Bou though. Definitely does not want to deal with her right now.
One of my favorites in my collection. It's a 71 Terra Haute pressing and the sound is absolutely beautiful on it the sleeve has seen its share of abuse, but i dont care when the record sounds that good. Obviously the album needs no introduction, and ever song on it is absolutely amazing. Busted this out while i was making Christmas cookies, because Iron Man is ky spirit animal while dealing with Christmas mayhem.
This is from an interesting corner of my collection. An old roommate found a bunch of Hungarian records at the local Goodwill and got a couple of them, including a record of a Hungarian folk music which was absolutely incredible. We went back and scooped up the rest of the collection (i assume someone's Hungarian father died and his descendants didn't know what to do with the records so they just donated them since they all had the same name/initials on them). Unfortunately this album isn't nearly as good as the folk music, but i enjoy listening to it. The violins are very beautiful, even if there isn't anything particularly remarkable about the music. It's a lovely record to spin up while you read with a cup of tea.
This one is a reissue from 78, but it sounds great. One of Pink Floyds less appreciated albums, but a favorite of mine none the less.
My mom is from Northern England, so i have grown up with English beers and family trips to Northern England, including Yorkshire. Samuel Smith is a favorite brewery of mine, and this is my first time trying something other than the oatmeal stout. It's absolutely delicious, and the box i bought came with the pint glass in the picture.
I found it very telling that HBO re-wrote the entire Butlerian jihad because the robots were evil, rather than the actual point where using machines to replace humans was wicked and evil