Us with our witnesses, French town hall

Went to a University of Oregon football game. First football game in decades. First sports game since my son left soccer.

EXTREMELY out of my comfort zone: massive crowd, deafening noise, logos and flashing lights everywhere, lines for expensive mediocre food. The next day I just hid in the basement and napped.

Had a great time though. Would go again sometime.

I have been meaning to post a photo of these shelves for ages and realized that it would be a perfect substitute for the my9albums app, except I have to list out the album titles:

Brian Eno/David Byrne "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
King Crimson "Larks' Tongues in Aspic"
Autechre "Amber"
Jorge Ben "A Tábua de Esmeralda"
Can "Ege Bamyasi"
Parliament "Mothership Connection"
My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
Velvet Underground "White Light/White Heat"
Stooges "Funhouse"

9 wasn't enough. But now I'm realizing 18 isn't either. Oh well. I'll leave it at 18. Been fun watching everyone post their albums!

i may as well join the trend.

Had a chance to do more this morning

Previously: https://mltshp.com/p/1RWUD

Ok, tried to do this without deep thinking, just 9 cds I'd grab for a long road trip. Might revise & resubmit…

TL;DR I got a new camera back.

I am going to be a bit of a gear bore.

This came from Copenhagen for a very good price. It is an 8x10 > 5x7 reducing back made by Sinar. It means I can now shoot 4x5", 5x7" and 8x10" film (as well as a few other instant options in between).

5x7" black and white film is readily available. Colour is trickier. There is a camera maker in the US who puts in a special order with Kodak twice a year or so. I have ordered 100 sheets from him, which is now waiting with my mother-in-law (was due to visit this month but had to postpone). I have joked that that many sheets could well last me the rest of my life, but I suppose it all depends on how prolific I am.

In the interim, a German company have started making Large Format film including a colour 5x7 film.
https://www.optik-oldschool.com/collecti...

Sinar still make cameras today and all of the parts are interchangable, even this green back which was first made in the late 1940's.

It's taken me a few years to get to this point, but I am now in a position where I can shoot on many formats, with different set-ups, using a single, modular system.

No, this isn't Russia. The Houthis managed to hit Saudi Aramco's FUCKING HEADQUARTERS & corporate offices in Dharan. I'm mainly posting this here because a) I highly doubt it will get any coverage and b) someone risked their lives and freedom to get this video out*. It's sooooo bad the Saudis had to admit that there was "some debris" in the vicinity from an "intercepted missle" LOOOOOOOOLLLL

all those bribes & shit ruined by the inability to resist an attack on an airport

This really isn't funny - it's part of a massive escalation - but it IS just so full of irony.

*Note: the attack has been verified, but whether or not this footage is real hasn't - but it could be, as the Aramco corporate offices have 4 giant hwy coverleafs right by them that take you on/off Aramco Road and that's what this viewpoint looks like. OTOH that's a lot of fire for an office. If verified one way or another I'll update or take it down.

aha, found a place you can watch the video: https://www.reddit.com/r...

UPDATE: "Aramco source to Reuters: the strike on Aramco's Dhahran headquarters damaged the complex's upper three floors and sparked a fire; building oversees onshore/offshore platforms, pipelines, refineries and export terminals." Oh, that's going to make things a little harder to fix when all those things are being bombed.

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"Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin"

Photo by Alison Fisk

Gross. I caved in.

#my9 #mlt9

Bought it last year on Switch 2 but had a backlog and finally got around to it and I might have made a huge mistake

Nothing cool or edgy. These are the only albums I remember owning from roughly age 10 to age 14.

No Slint, but almost included Rodan.

Happy Thanksgiving from us, but particularly from this cat who was snoozing in the sun amongst fallen autumn leaves on our deck.

I did this earlier last week elsewhere. The site has a bit of a vibe code stench to it, but can't confirm and hope not.

Is my list late-stage adult autism confirmation? Maybe

38th anniversary of National Coming Out Day!

I've been out of the closet for 36 of those years, and still happily queer.

Fuck the fascists, fuck the right wing, I can love whom I want, and I'll fight like hell for those rights to be maintained for all queers, especially kids.

I literally had to flip a coin between Interpol and Massive Attack as well as which Modest Mouse album - "Long Drive . . ." is also an essential.

For most people the R.E.M. album is Murmur, but since it first came out when I was barely alive maybe it just didn't have the same impact on me due to its decade plus influence on music by the time I came around to R.E.M., or maybe I just wasn't cool enough. Teenage Williwaw, however, wore out Reckoning in both cassette and C.D. form.

Townes and Jimi are doing an incredible amount of heavy lifting here.

i loved seeing everyone’s lists over the last few days (shoutout to @dogwelder’s top tier set) and i spent way too much time thinking about all of the embarrassing things i could put on this list.

decided to slim it down to the “formative” albums up to age 21. i could have added so many more, from the dumb magic of “what’s the story morning glory” (oasis, 1995) to the wonky rollercoaster of “ride the fader” (chavez, 1997). excluded a couple of formative artists that i just don't want to give the attention to anymore, fought myself between brief bursts of outsize influence and staying power.

i might go back and do a second list for 21-42 (current age) just so i can continue to torture myself

I think I mostly like music without singing. Yet vocals are slightly in the majority here.
#my9 #mlt9

Big Aussie Units Series #78

Newest addition to Australia's collection of Big Units, with a pair of endangered Carnaby's cockatoos just unveiled in Moora, Western Australia

Have not visited (yet)

More Big Units https://mltshp.com/bigunits

More pics here and story here...
https://www.abc.net.au/news...

(Pictured as found. Selection committee unknown.)