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Wow! OK, I did not know that. It's almost 2017, and there are still PCs sold without any audio player software included. I still don't know how playlists and libraries are created without it, but I'm assuming you're using spreadsheets of some kind. Anyway, surprises abound!

So, each time you want to hear a song, you'll be clicking on a file to hear it?

So what will you be using as your player to listen to your music?

...and even tho he's not really "noise-rap", but more abstract, I still like Open Mike Eagle's style.

Learned my share from him, but was too young to fully appreciate who he was.

Yes, true - "usually" - unless you walk into trouble while attending to something else. Still not as safe as being more attentive to your environment tho.

Yes, as I said above. Becoming deaf is quite damaging.

Blocking the "outside" out by using close-ear mechanics is a sure fire way of never having to hear the hustle and bustle now and, especially, in the future because you'll be bombarding your ears with close-ear sound that will soon create that desirable quiet you've been longing for - permanently. If being deaf isn't really the desired state you were wanting, maybe one can use some inner discipline when faced with their aural environment. If the reason for earbuds and the like are an avoidance technique, it would seem to me that it would be precisely the lecherous ones that would see this lack of attention to your environment as an advantageous moment. "...creating a world where you never take off your headphones."

Kraftwerk tonight was again wonderful.

LPs and CDs in this house are not in any order, but Ken Colyer could've had a harder time with where he's placed in my iTunes collection (loyal user since 2001 and still lovin' it). If you go by the first name, on one side, he's preceded by Ken Chaney and Ken Christie and the Sunday People and on t'other side he's followed by Ken "Marty Hopkirk" Cope and Ken "Festus" Curtis. As for databases, I don't use any, but the program director at the radio station that gets my show wants one, so I just use the ultra-simple iTunes to easy format for spreadsheets.

The solution

Internet Has a Field Day With Entitled Pick-Up Blog’s Instructions on How to Talk to a Woman Wearing Headphones Also, The Guardian.

Not much of a TV watcher, but we just finished watching (on DVD) this BBC drama (ca. 7 hours and "The Making of...") and it was fun:

Two current favorites from this century: Just about anything by Yannis Kyriakides. Dropping you into the middle of his "a conSPIracy cantata." and Tristan Perich. This is from a performance I attended of his work for 10 violins and 10-channel 1-bit music.

RVG Obit at Fact

This iPod has been sitting here on my desk for a very long time without use. Walks and bike rides are opportunities to discover new combinations of sound and so I don't take any music (tho I may, at times, take the "opposite": a recorder). Driving inside the US, I'll play discs, but for overseas travel, I stopped taking any music at all beginning at least 10 years ago because I never felt the need to listen to anything other than my varied surroundings, so weeks can go by without intended recorded music. There's a set of earbuds around here somewhere, but they're used occasionally for things other than listening.

Ka would've been 88 today.

I'm glad the topic title was changed - especially considering that this is a music forum. The good thing that I could say about McLaughlin is that he showed up for his show regularly, so he was pretty dedicated to it, but the absurd take on the non-comedic panel format, his many, many ridiculous ideas (Warren G. Harding was our first black president?) and his sexual advances toward women colleagues places him in the area of political discussion that I would not want to be a part of. Also, this guy is even more meaningless to our friends here who are not from the US.

I did not know that!

{A note from Leo Records in their latest press release} "Some 30 years ago in the age of vinyl I released an LP by the Romanian musician Harry Tavitian. Romania was a totalitarian state run by the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, the collapse of the Berlin Wall was four years away. A friend took the courage and smuggled out the tape by the Romanian musician Harry Tavitian. Inside the box there was a letter from Harry asking Leo Records to publish the tape. Harry Tavitian fully understood that if Ceausescu's secret agents find out about it the consequences would be severe. Since Harry lived behind the Iron Curtain it was impossible to speak to him directly. Although the release of the LP in the West by the obscure Romanian Quartet promised me nothing but financial losses I decided to release it. Five years later the world switched from LPs to CDs, Romanian dictator was dead, five hundred copies of Tavitian's LP were gone and the whole thing forgotten. Little did I know. Last week, thirty odd years after the release of the LP, I received a letter from the law firm in Romania stating that they represent the interests of somebody called Catalin Frusinescu who used to be a member of Harry Tavitian's quartet. It transpired that along with three other musicians Catalin Frusinescu was the composer of one short song under four minutes long. It was his only contribution to the LP as a composer. The letter stated that since 1985 until the present day Leo Records was selling this LP without the prior consent of Mr. Frusinescu. The Romanian lawyer wanted to see the written agreement between his client and Leo Records. HOLY SHIT! Needless to say, the letter raises a lot of legal, moral and ethical questions. I wonder what you think about it. Write to us to: leorecords@blueyonder.co.uk "

Little known fact: His father, Bill Steig, was the creator of Shrek!

Sretan rođendan, Chuck!