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Alice In Chains 'Rainier Fog'

Yeah, we went expecting nothing much and found an ideal space that works on nearly every level. Dressing room for the lady? Tick. Office for moi? Tick. Space on the driveway for two cars? Tick. Quiet, unsuspecting locals who rarely socialise outside of the street and so will not likely be missed should ‘fate decide to intervene’? Tick!

Good luck with this. Happy with the place? Our own move is going to have to wait, and I'm glad we won't have the extra expense coming up, we still don't have everything paid off from our last move in 2016. On my mind: audio cassette-tapes: their many drawbacks; their few advantages; the delicate ballet of physical and electronic components required to produce even poor, inconsistent, and fragile copies, which, at their best, approach, but do not achieve, the platonic ideal contained within every single unremarkable stupid fucking wave file on my computer (all of which, regardless of musical content, sound objectively better); how little I missed the compromises and troubleshooting headaches that are an inevitable part of any undertaking involving aging and not particularly robust equipment with an abundance of tiny moving parts and other quaint and charming opportunities for failure; how my casual but informed lack of regard for this particular medium is rapidly congealing into active loathing due to recent events; in short, how audio cassette-tapes are for suckers.

Thank you man! The show is in Worcester, yes, at the Sprinkler Factory. Fantastic space, seems like it's a little out of the way but I don't know the town well enough to say that for sure. I think they're only open on weekends. I hope you can stop by, the whole show is great and I'm happy to be a small part of it. It'll probably be a few years before we can swing a trip anywhere for any length of time. There are so many places in Europe that I want to visit... Aaargh. Rome first, I hope.

Brujeria - Raza Odiada

My latest (albeit not that recent) metal book purchase. Haven't actually read it yet, for shame, but anyway... a signed copy for face value, I had to grab it *2020 edit* Also now picked up a signed copy of Rob Halford's book 😁 ...oh, and a copy of David Vincent's, for whatever reason.