Ahahaha I was gonna tag you, but assumed your pain was already pretty severe.

Missed ya too. I checked my messages recently and saw a ton of baseball shoutouts from y'all. How was it around here when the Cubbies won?

(I'm the tuxie tho I call dibs, arguewithatree)

I promise! Hahaha. We've just been a bit busy lately with Chelsea doing her thesis and me working a ton. But it'll be up soon for sure.

Ahhhh, I know the place! I'll pop in next time I'm out there and add more stickers. I have such an incredible amount of them.

I love love love visiting it. But my friends that live there are going stir crazy. It's tough for some people to live like that. I really think it's one of the few areas of California that I can say I truly love.

Was the ice cream shop also a donut shop just off the town center?

Interesting story about that. My boss is Bosnian and was telling me the story of how during the siege of Sarajevo, Iron Maiden was one of the only bands that came to play, where they were already loved. He said they almost worship Bruce Dickenson as an idol there now. There was a great article about it all too. I'll loop you in when I post it.

So I need to send you a PM to get your address. Last night at my bar I had two Puerto Rican metal bands playing that put on one hell of a show. I thought you might be into it, so I grabbed two CDs for you for Christmas.

The one thing I took away from this: "wait, Infected Mushroom is Israeli?!"

They put on a great show too. I saw them around 2010 at a festival (was it Coachella? It might have been. I went to a few that year.)

But you're also wrong on one point. Nobody can dislike Babymetal. That is the greatest band around and they have the greatest music videos. What's not to like?

THIS I know of well. Partially because of the hoax myth. My black metal listening has dropped off in recent years, but I am so into believing they're actually in Iraq.

I didn't see any! I'm there fairly regularly to visit friends. I should take a look around next time, and sticker People's Records and Tincan Mailman.

You should see my shave kit from before my beard/when I shaved my mustache. A Gillette fatboy, a Merkel, and a thinner Gilette circa 1957. Boar's hair brush, of course, shaving soap puck, stiptic pencil, and after shave cream of either eucalyptus or... Shit, what was it? Witch something. Witch hazel?

Did you see BrewDog's blog post about the buyouts of this year? They mentioned Elysian specifically as a massively sad one.

https://www.brewdog.com/lowdown/blog/nailing-our-colours-to-the-motherfucking-mast

Alright, who's going to buy it and write a review for us? I feel like enlisting JTHipster would be a good course of action.

This one I truly don't know. I'll look into them today.

"World Music" is usually used as a catch-all for "non-Western", therefore "other", therefore "not as real as our music". It's a horrendous term, but conveyed the point well: Look at the wildly complete spectrum of music that's been posted in this thread! There are no shortage of genres, styles, types, cultures, histories. I think I got every continent involved here now. That's a wide variety to be in one record store bin.

Nusrat is my Elvis

- Jeff Buckley

Nusrat is actually in a weekly rotation for me. It never gets old no matter the years I've been listening to it. I've been meaning to look into more Qawwali musicians lately because it has such a profound effect on it.

I was incredibly lucky to see Ravi Shankar for his last performance in San Francisco. It was undoubtedly one of the best experiences I've had going to a concert and I'm sad I only got to see him once., but holy shit would I be interested in going through his disciples' music.

That Music of Islam collection looks absolutely incredible though. I'm going to work my way through that over the next few weeks.

bfv and I share music in PMs on occasion, so I know he's a good one to follow for pretty much anything.

I'm deeply in love with Tinariwen from Mali. That's what I was listening to when I thought about posting this thread. Malian guitar rock is the best rock in the world, and Amadou & Mariam are no exception.

That's funny. I just saw that as I was listening to his Chopin Project.

I really, truly believe he is one of the worst people in the country, but I couldn't feel anything but sorrow for him reading that article about his condition. No one deserves what he's been going through, even at the cost of removing his disgusting rhetoric from the world. I hope he at least goes peacefully and without pain from his disease.

I actually really enjoy watching episode III purely for Ewan. His acting, even with abysmal dialogue, is absolutely impeccable. He did everything so well, and made the scene where he ends Anakin truly compelling. Everything else though, ESPECIALLY Hayden in that scene, is... I don't have an adjective to combine frustrating, disappointing, and nauseating.

Convenient as hell. I like following the world adventures of insomniasexx, the domestic adventures of thenewgreen, and the poetry of _refugee_. I know I'm friends with others here, but I'm not on nearly enough to see other things

If you ever get a chance, see both in concert. They put on some of the most amazing shows I've ever seen. GY!BE also have a screen behind them with something they've made specifically for their songs and it's entrancing, and SMZ always have insane energy.