Walk The Line

It's sad...heart breaking even. It's so brilliantly acted some of the scenes feel like source footage and the music will still be under your skin when you wake up the next morning. Walk The Line is worth your time.

Sisters and Cousins

 

Player...

 

Everybody Loves A Funeral!

60mm Macro...

 

Lensbaby 2.0

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This Week In Pictures...

 

Sunshine

 

Colder

I have a million photo's to edit. I'll never catch up and I really need to catch up soon. I need music that will keep me moving but not make me close my eyes and drift off...but I've already been through the Joy Division boxed set and I'm not sure where to turn!

Enter Colder. The new album Heat (and their previous gem Again) will keep your flickering Joy Division flame burning late into the night. And there is a superb Theivery Corporation vien running through here that keeps everything current with a sticky slowcore groove.

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Sun Dried

 

The Swing

Ghosts

 

Water...

William watches the water show. This is just before he got hosed. 

Rip This!

For the both of you who give a crap, the ripping is completed. I was going to take another picture of myself holding both 800 cd spools, but I didn't care enough. The final specs were around 1640 albums, including singles (most surprising stat: 54 soundtracks! I would have guessed 14) and just over 145 gigs. Our trip to Virgin Mega today increased it by 2. FYI: buy the new Belle & Sebastian album. 

The Day In Pictures...well picture.

The thing I like about this picture is that it looks like we're visiting William in the midst of the worlds gnarliest sneeze. Click on the picture to get a better look.

For Old Time's Sake

I suddenly wanted to see this old favorite (even though it's hanging on our wall). 

Sundown

Sunset tonight down on the lake... 

CES Report: Audiophile Speaker Shootout

I know this is super late. You're both deeply hurt by my neglegence. What follows is a very very brief account of what was bad and very very good among the audiophile offerings at CES and THE.

Also a special thanks to my partner in audio worship Jim Polley (pictured above nestled deep in the piles of gear) he got me in and got me through it with a smile on my face. I'd enjoy an international hubcap show with Jim, so you can imagine how much fun this was. 

CES Report: Best Hope For The Future of Poor Audiophiles - China

We heard some brilliant equipment out of China and all of it was well priced. I have every reason to expect that my next major audio upgrade will be Chinese designed, built and marketed. Usher Audio Technology had the best of many Chinese speakers and represent one of the best value purchases in the audio world. 

CES Report: Worst In Show

I'm not naming the components of this bizarre rig as my ears and experience don't really give me the credintials to name a 'worst in show', but these deserve mention. Not only were they outragiously expensive and ugly and huge and ugly and expensive and ugly...they sounded bad. Not horrible, but very much not at all good. Also they were expensive and ugly.

The stunningly *insert adjective (e.g. big)* turntable is probably brilliant, but we could only hear it through these ugly, expensive, bad sounding speakers.

They were a good laugh though.