Going through a recently acquired impatient stack of music media here, all of which I've listened to already:

Tapes:

The Soundtrack From the Film LED ZEPPELIN: The Song Remains the Same. - "Stairway To Heaven" on the B side.

Dante Symphony, by Franz Liszt - a Hungarian tape, no less.

Mountain Songs: A Cycle of American Folk Music, by Eliot Fisk ( Read more... )

I suppose it was too good to last - the past several days we've had to run the AC between 2 and 7 PM instead of just leaving everything open to the billowing breeze all day long. An increase in humidity did the job in the end, otherwise it would be pretty nice Outside. Ah, well ( Read more... )

Warming up now, but still actually quite nice outside, darn it. How can I get anything done inside when it's like this?

Ah, well, time for more stuff for the music section - I'm running out of room in the tape cassette division, which means either I thin it out or build another annex. And here's some of the cassettes that are crowding the racks:

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As I was drifting uneasily between sleep and wakefulness, I had a sudden thought about the matter of Ignorance and Superstition - the former is a curable condition, by the application of appropriate amounts of information and knowledge. The latter is less easy to do away with - it is the condition of thinking one knows something, which happens to ( Read more... )

An unusually cold Spring that will presently lead to ... what? Not an overheated Summer, I hope.

Once more, an accumulation of Stuff for the Doomed Library (this being a region famous for its hurricanes etc), with one item that has given me pause to think.

H. P. Lovecraft: The Fiction: Complete and Unabridged, intro by S. T. Joshi (2008). ( Read more... )

Oddly cold for this time of year - yeah, I know, it's still winter but the past several years our winters have been warmer than usual, so when it returns to normal it seems strange.

Yet another stack of stuff for la Biblioteque Maudit - books, for example:

Spy vs Spy: The Complete Casebook by Antonio Prohias (2001) - who was already in his grave ( Read more... )

Rather than just let this stuff pile up, I decided to go ahead and further load up LJ's servers with some more recent acquisitions.

Boox:

The Ogri Collection, 1972-1989, by Paul Sample (2004 edn). A collection of comics published in a British bikerzine. The misadventures of an urban biker called Ogri and his hapless pal Malcolm - Ogri being the ( Read more... )

Well, we've had a real winter for once, the first in a good many years. On one hand, it's an agreeable change; on the other, not so agreeable, seeing as I have a number of outdoor projects that are being held up by this cold sloppy weather. Ah, well.

More STUFF, starting with a DVD:

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), which I'd heard of but never ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like we're really going to have a genuine WINTER down here on the Third Coast mudflats - this coming week is predicted to have overnight lows in the 20s F, which should do something towards killing the bugs - last week I was confronted by a mosquito upon going outside to get the morning paper, which is at least annoying in the middle ( Read more... )

Hi ho, another year flying by, and good riddance for the most part. Maybe the new year will be a better one, and maybe pigs will fly ( Read more... )