mrcompletely

mrcompletely, 9 months ago to jazz

My #BandCamp Friday rec for #jazz heads is the London Brew fusion project that came out earlier this summer. It didn't generate much buzz that I saw at the time and folks I find that perplexing. This album smokes. It was framed as a tribute to Miles and Bitches Brew but it's really just modern fusion #music Miles might dig, from a lineup of UK jazz killers (Shabaka Hutchings, Tom Skinner, Theon Cross, Nubya Garcia) and members of The Invisible, who give it a modern edge

https://londonbrew.bandcamp.com/album/london-brew

mrcompletely, 8 months ago to bluegrass

David Grisman Quintet
10.16.1976 early and late shows
McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica CA
SBD master recording, FLAC download

with:
Darol Anger - violin
Todd Philips - mandolin
Tony Rice - guitar
Bill Amatneek - bass

New show to circulation. Very high quality. The earliest clean DGQ tape there is. A hot one for fans of #bluegrass and Dawg #music (which touches on #Jazz )

Dawg, Tony and the fellas are en fuego here. This is from before the album came out.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qNoQtzUFLQJ05QR05vBP9Yo4gTpzs9AY?usp=drive_link

mrcompletely, 7 months ago to nba

#nba continued

LeBron can stay on my TV as long as he wants. This is not exactly a deep thought but man he is still really good at this

So far when the Spurs are clicking they look nice but when they're not they look like a team built around a skinny rookie. A true "league pass" team, always worth a glance, but if they're getting smacked around find something else to look at unless you're really trying to see every Wemby minute

mrcompletely, 4 months ago to random

We're gonna need a term for "absolutely beautiful but catastrophically inappropriate for the season" weather. This century is so stupid already

mrcompletely, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to jazz

Chelsea Carmichael - The River Doesn't Like Strangers

Absolutely fantastic modern #jazz album released on Shabaka Hutchings' Native Rebels label and produced by him. Carmichael is a member of Theon Cross' and Joe Armon-Jones' bands, and this debut as a bandleader makes it clear she's ready to claim her own name. The title track alone is worth the album price.

Not on any EOY list I've seen yet, but then, London Brew wasn't either, my album of the year by miles

https://chelseacarmichael.bandcamp.com/album/the-river-doesnt-like-strangers

mrcompletely, 1 year ago to random

I missed the second half, what the hell happened in that Celtics/Sixers #nba game? No way Boston should lose to them without Embiid, but we already knew these playoffs are hella weird

mrcompletely, 4 months ago to nba

So #NBA fans Joel Embiid is having surgery and that sucks

I don't care if your fav team is another eastern contender, this is a fucking bummer. Everyone knows he was having his best and most enjoyable to watch season ever, by far, but I'm not sure everyone really saw exactly how amazing it was. By some metrics he was in the middle of the greatest NBA scoring season ever! At 1+ points per minute played he was even ahead of the legendary Wilt Chamberlain seasons for highest rate of all time.

mrcompletely, 1 year ago to random

I've been in #software #design and development for a long time and it's been good to me, I've gotten to work on stuff that doesn't do harm, isn't invasive, tries to respect privacy etc, so pretty low on the moral compromise scale, and I've been given a lot of agency and authority, but folks, I'm bored as hell with it. I like leading teams and guiding careers and making neat apps and all but as I near some apex of experience I'm running out of fucks to give. The ultimate fake problem, I know.

mrcompletely, 6 months ago to nba

#NBA thoughts near the end of another firehose night of games. We're far enough into the season that things are starting to take shape.

• overall the league has more good players and interesting teams than anytime since maybe the early 90s. It's wild. And there are all kinds of play styles out there which makes it extra cool

• I've never seen a team like the Celtics. It's a totally unique lineup. Brown feels a little redundant but you know zinger will miss 3 weeks sometime

mrcompletely, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

Ok just taking that #UAP article at face value for the fun of it:

Aliens exist - not weird at all.

Aliens being able to come here - a little surprising but cool I guess? Hopefully?

Aliens wanting to come here - seems weird to me but who can guess how aliens think right?

Aliens wanting to come here, being able to, but crashing all over the place like a bunch of wooks on ketamine and jager? Now that's weird.

Something is knocking em down...? What?

On purpose? Why? A test? Alien Motive X?

mrcompletely, 10 months ago to books

Well. I've been reading a lot as usual and there have been some good #books in there and some of the nonfiction has been excellent. But I haven't had a home run #novel read in awhile and so it's time to dip back into the masterpiece rereads stack. I'm not quite in a Pynchon mood so tonight I'm starting Soldier of the Mist, one of Gene Wolfe's finest works, which by definition puts it on the all time short list of greatest #SFF genre novels.
🧵
https://bookshop.org/p/books/latro-in-the-mist-soldier-of-the-mist-and-soldier-of-arete-gene-wolfe/7252330

mrcompletely, 5 months ago to nba

Golden State has put together a really nice rotation without Draymond, and they're playing loose, with joy. It's time to move on I think, and move him for whatever they can get. No hurry, but I think they're better without him (no matter the outcome of this game). Kuminga coming on, Wiggins playing a bit better, Podziemski giving them reliable high energy minutes, it's a fun team to watch again #nba

mrcompletely, 11 months ago to random

All the music heads in my feed say what's up to my friend @arghdos - a long time contributor to the live music collector world across many genres and platforms, has a great YT channel with a lot of live audio, etc, I'm really glad he's here with us

mrcompletely, 10 months ago to random

idk y'all he gave it a name that reminds me of porn and comic book superheroes and 90s TV and my generation and our name for MDMA back when we were the first to ruin it as a therapeutic treatment, I think I'm back in

mrcompletely, 5 months ago to physics

dear #physics #science Mastodon, how seriously should I be paying attention to this current hype-attracting article? on the scale of "Michio Kaku is already working on a way to sell it to New Agers" to "if it proves out, warm up the Nobels"

Really appreciate access to professional wisdom here thank you 🙏

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/203

mrcompletely, 24 days ago to history

I hereby declare Sir Hans von Hake the patron anti-saint of effective trolling. Hear me out:

So it's the Holy Roman Empire days before the Reformation and the Catholic Church is at its most corrupt. Pope Whatever the 95th stomps the gas on selling indulgences in order to fund building the big ass Saint Peters building in Rome, and also enrich his cronies. One of the lead cronies is this putz named Tetzel, a corrupt priest who comes up into the HRE selling indulgences
🧵
#history

mrcompletely, 2 months ago to music

I'm not a serious King Crimson fan, in fact hardly at all, but I'd go see this lineup if it was playing nearby, which is isn't, but they're playing just about everywhere else in the US, so here.

Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai, Danny Carey is the lineup. I'm a huge Belew fan, Vai not so much but he can play the Fripp parts, Levin is great, but Tool drummer Carey is the ringer here - a chance to see him (he's insanely good) play non Tool material 👀👀👀
#music

https://beat-tour.com

mrcompletely, 2 months ago to random

As someone who has seen an #eclipse from totality and from 98%+, I would like you to know that 98%+ rounds down zero much more than it rounds up to totality. If you're at 98/99% you might think "eh good enough" but it really isn't. The corona effects are orders of magnitude different IMO

I mean 98% is still cool and weird in its way

mrcompletely, 9 months ago to music

Remember Shakti - Live at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Sept. 2003 - FLAC and MP3 downloads

A very beautiful, extremely clean audience recording made from the 8th row by a friend. The drum sound is particularly realistic I think.

Lineup for this tour was:

John McLaughlin - guitar, macbook pro
Zakir Hussein - tablas
U. Srinivas - Carnatic mandolin
V. Selvaganesh - kanjira, ghatam, mridangam

#music #jazz #fusion #IndianMusic

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18bMK7PTNK2BJdjl4kXj7_9mLSfnLnozB?usp=drive_link

mrcompletely, 9 months ago to music

A new Jerry Garcia Band recording I just circulated today: 10.21.87 matinee show from the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway in NYC. This includes the Acoustic Band opening set, the electric set, and the encore - this is the first board recording to include the encore track.

This was recorded by making a stealth patch into one of the remote PA speakers and thus is mono, but the tape is quite clean and direct from the cassette master.

#gratefuldead #music

FLAC download:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Zz3kz_v_NN_xBSzQcb9H6T_Hsb5MBwe_?usp=drive_link

mrcompletely, 2 months ago to random

So, I'm a state of deep and increasing skepticism about the Threads integration, but I'm leaving the channel open for awhile to make a slow and considered decision about the impact. So far I have a lot of ambiguous thoughts but this post is about the reappearance via threads of the toxic Twitter behavior known as the "quote tweet dunk" and especially the QTD RT, where someone flexes their own QTD on some mook via a boost/RT. It's shitty and I'm blocking the people who do it.

mrcompletely, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to portland

Downtown #Portland no longer has any idea what it is. It's chaotic both physically and in terms of identity. Under no circumstances am I placing blame or shame on the large unhoused/mentally ill/drug addict populations. The causality is complex and I have no solutions to offer. But shits pretty fucked up

mrcompletely, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Do you think the online personae of the people you interact with here accurately reflect their "real personalities"?
#Poll

mrcompletely, 4 months ago to random

One of you clever people on here recently observed correctly that Words With Friends contains an absolutely elite collection of "dark patterns" - manipulative, deceptive UI/UX designs. I've realized I see it now as almost nothing but that dark pattern maze, and now I'm wondering if anyone has done a meta game about defeating dark patterns, where there's a basic game wrapped in layers of this nonsense, but the real game is scored on your ability to avoid and efficiently outmaneuver the evil UI

mrcompletely, 3 months ago to nba

Celtics/Heat is the only really spicy high level #nba rivalry we have these days right? High level meaning between frequent contenders