According to BBC FoxNews 24, August 17 2020, Musicians from popular rock band Metallica were arrested today for bringing a drummer into the country without a licence. Singer James Hetfield released the following statement:

OMG, the March update of the Oxford English Dictionary modifies thetinfoil hat worn by numerous tragic stereotypes whilst they sip their flat white. Nom nom.

FYI, the n-second rule and couch surfing also received updates

First Michelle Forbes as Helena Cain, then Nana Visitor as Emily (episode Faith). Why interesting? Forbes played Ensign Ro Laren in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and a was offered a role in Deep Space 9. Forbes declined and and Visitor was cast as Major Kira Nerys in her place.

It's one of the toys that every guitarist tries at some point. I think my first experience was part of a cheap multi-fx unit, maybe a Korg Toneworks, maybe ten years ago. Being fairly new to playing guitar, and playing a Squier with really nasty sounding singe coil pickups, it all sounded rubbish. I started playing my bass in a 3-piece grunge band not long after, and needed a really huge sound.

http://kathack.com/ turns any web page into Katamari Damacy. For the uninitiated, you get a sticky ball that grows as everything sticks to it.

So I'm house-sitting. I never fail to amaze myself when I look at my hierarchy of needs and what is required to establish a comfort zone.

Retro for me is playing a Roland D10 or calling up a suitably vintage patch on the JV-1080 or MicroKorg. From time to time I'll do something with stacks of vocal aah or ooh waveforms to build some kind of massive layered sound. It's easy, fast, and I don't have to contemplate microphones. On a good day music happens in realtime, played by either me or the sequencer.

I found the origins of vocal pads most interesting, I think I'd go nuts making chords by juggling faders on the mixing desk.

Reports of a bomb alert in Northern Ireland temporily suspending the counting of votes, it gets a passing mention on the Beeb, and dismissed as insignificant. If only the response to other terrorists was similar. Sometime I wonder if it can be defanged by renaming it mild-inconvenienceism...

Voters queuing for hours in Leeds and Sheffield, with voters being turned away in Sheffield* due to insufficient staff to deal with the turnout.

Not enough ballot papers in Merseyside.

Epic Turnout.

Epic Fail.

It's rubbish, and I smell chaos, legal challenges and much fury, finger-pointing and general dissillusionment at what might have been the most interesting election in years.

*EDIT: revised claims of where voters turned away, I shouldn't follow unverified claims as they happen to broadcast. I'm sure I'll be advised of future corrections...

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