I was a big Ralph Towner fan when I was younger. Saw him live with several groups, and I maintained ownership of quite a few of his albums as musical media changed over the years.

Sargasso Sea with John Abercrombie
Matchbook and Slide Show with Gary Burton - these are great!
Various solo albums ...

It's a good thing to do.

I had a lovely 70s Greco I bought stupid cheap in 2002 - the single best deal on gear I've ever had, £125 - and it was love. It could do everything I wanted a guitar to do. Then my life turned to shit for a couple of years. I recorded some pieces I still like with it, but ...

Nation of Ulysses' first still thrills me as much as it did when I first heard it 30 years ago.

Numerous days I've taken the first steps out of deep immobilising depression with "if you get up and walk across the room you can put Bill Withers Live At Carnegie Hall on."

This also works with ...

'seance bath' brought me a lot of joy, thank you.

i would always prefer to be alone at this time.

i've had a notably less maddening youtube experience from duck player, although it's a pity there's no linux build at time of writing.

it is true that the english, for better or (mostly) worse my people, have a special gift for self-defeating misery. withstanding it and regenerating it.

Life on Mars was also continued and concluded as Ashes to Ashes , which may not be very clear from the Britbox presentation. (They stopped there before they had to do a series called The Heart's Filthy Lesson , I guess.)

I'm doing this off a list I found online , but:

Worthwhile drama: The Change ...

A toss-up between:

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Television, Adventure . Fascinated by the tension in this photograph.

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lost all but a couple of hours sleep last night. i'm in rough shape. stepping outside i can hear blackbirds, ringing from the treetops, and for an instant that has nothing to do with all the shit in my head i can feel i'm happy i'm here.

I had heard enough of the delicately-sad/sadly-delicate bands that traipsed along in the wake of Belle & Sebastian to not really want to engage with a band called The Clientele.

But gentle reader, they're a fucking great band: lyrics held together by empty space, silvery fingerpicked guitar on ...

rough day at work yesterday and my better half volunteered to fix dinner so i went upstairs to crank out some obnoxious guitar.

for numerous reasons, my guitar setup is an interface, reaper and some good earphones. but we've also been in a state of flux for most of the last decade and it has only ...