stevenray

stevenray, 3 months ago to random

One Trump indictment and guilty verdict down, three to go. The champagne isn’t gonna drink itself! #wine

stevenray, 1 month ago to random

Today's our 31st wedding #anniversary 🥳. That got here awful quick! The flowers have arrived, we've listened to Here Come The Warm Jets and the #TwinPeaks soundtrack and tonight will be food from Izakaya Sozai. Woo hoo!

stevenray, 5 months ago to animals

One of these days, I’ll get these two to pose together.

Maybe. They’re cats, so maybe not! 🐈 🐈‍⬛

#caturday
#catsofmastodon

Zowie, a young brown tabby Maine Coon cat sits on a dining room table, looking toward you. A small vase of sunflowers is in the foreground.

stevenray, 26 days ago to movies

I watched David Lynch's Lost Highway yesterday (somehow for the 1st time), and let me tell you it was appropriately bizarre and disturbing, just how I like it. 🙂

#movies #davidLynch #twinpeaks

stevenray, 1 month ago to random

Anybody ever seen an orange like this?

Is Nature pranking me?

A shot of the orange more from the side, showing the bottom. You can see the slice shape from another angle.
Another shot of the orange from above. Still has the light colored slice shape on the skin.

stevenray, 10 days ago to random

I think maybe the best tribute I can make to my mom (other than to mention how decent, how sweet, how respectful to others she was), is to show you pictures of our garden.

She was an artist, but also a gardener. She somehow instilled both of those things in me, so that twenty-three years after she passed and 3000 miles away, we have a nice garden. I think of her often when I’m working in it.

Her garden was full of roses, boxwood, azaleas and wildflowers. I wish I had pictures of it to show you.

Thanks, Mom. #mothersDay

The southwest corner of the garden, featuring Geranium maderense, Cala Lily and Birds Nest Fern. The corner of our wooden fence is in the background.
Taken from the back (west) end of the garden, looking southeast. Areas of sun and shade. Trunks of a holly tree take up the left edge of the photo, with Geranium maderense and other plants in the background.

stevenray, 24 days ago to modularsynth

My DUSG (dual universal slope generator) arrived this week, completing my little Serge skiff.

#modular #serge #eurorack #musicStudio @synths

A photo of a eurorack skiff with four modules, taken from directly above. The modules left to right are GTO, DPLPG, Wave Multipliers and Dual Universal Slope Generator. All by Serge by Random Source except for the DPLPG by Meng Qi.

stevenray, 9 days ago to ExperimentalMusic

I see that Landscape (the guy behind the Stereo Field and Noon) has a new product that's a handheld string resonator similar to an Ebow. On top of looking very sci-fi, you can vary the vibration via CV. Pretty compelling.
https://www.landscape.fm/ferrous

#experimentalMusic

stevenray, 2 months ago to generationx

If you're a #Bowie fan and/or a fan of early #1970s #music & #fashion, you have GOT to watch this 1973 episode of Midnight Special (hosted by Wolfman Jack!) featuring Bowie, Marianne Faithful, The Troggs, Carmen (great band unknown to me) and others.

Phenomenal. I've never heard of this gig, never seen screenshots of it. The outfits are incredible, as is the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjC7j8cNQ2k

a screenshot showing Bowie and Marianne Faithful, singing I Got You Babe. Fabulous fashion.

stevenray, 1 month ago to baseball

Well, the @SFGiants went from blowing out the Padres 9-1 to squeaking by with a 9-6 win after the bullpen imploded. Let’s not do this all year, torture magnets. #baseball 🤨

stevenray, 1 month ago to homebrewing

Today’s #wine is a Tannat from Castoro Cellars in Paso Robles, California. I wrote a review of it last August (see second pic), so no new one today. 🍷

A screenshot from Cellartracker.com showing my review of this wine from last August. I gave it an 89. Would buy again!

stevenray, 5 months ago to random

It’s eggnog time, brothers and sisters.

stevenray, 3 months ago to apple

So, I took my unresponsive iPad to the Genius Bar in the local Apple Store. Not a perfect experience, cuz they couldn’t fix it, but here’s two things:

A) they didn’t charge me for spending 15-20 minutes trying to fix it for me, and

B) the tech and I both agreed that getting a new screen kit from iFixIt and fixing it myself was the way to go. I didn’t even know that was an option. It’s fifty bucks. A lot better than $300+ for a new iPad. 👍

#apple

stevenray, 4 months ago to random

Yet another thing to watch via Kanopy through my #sfpl library membership.

stevenray, 2 months ago to random

Has anyone used Wise.com (maybe it used to be called TransferWise) for sending money overseas? Would you recommend it? Thanks!

stevenray, 2 months ago to random

Holy crapola, it's raining a lot. Monsoon-like.

stevenray, 2 months ago to Futurology

'When we listen to music, some neurons hear the notes of a melody, while others anticipate which notes will be next.'

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/02/427116/to-appreciate-music-human-brain-listens-and-learns-to-predict

#brain #neuroscience #music

stevenray, 3 months ago to random

We got a big electric fireplace delivered and wow, it’s incredible. Tons of ambiance.

When the new sofa arrives too, I’ll take pics and share. We’ve never had the main room downstairs look nice. After seventeen years (!), it’s finally coming together.

stevenray, 1 month ago to ElectronicMusic

Y'all, I'm selling my Gentle Wham percussion synth. Just put it up on Reverb. Here's the listing in case you might be interested. It's in mint condition. 🙂
https://rvrb.io/2020-present-gentl-q743r5

@synths #musicStudio #electronicMusic #experimentalMusic

stevenray, 1 month ago to baseball

The Giants-DBacks game is on Apple TV, just fyi. 😁 #baseball

stevenray, 26 days ago to music

Happy Friday, everyone. My first new album in a year is here. A Knife Into Flowers is six tracks of dissonant synths, surrealist adventures in distortion, transistor radio surfing and vaguely post-apocalyptic goodness.

To save you a little coinage, use a code for a free download.

Enter a code here: https://stevenraysound.bandcamp.com/yum
If the code you try has already been used, try the next one. Remember to let everyone know which code you used in the comments. If none of them work, let me know and I’ll generate more.

Enjoy the weekend.
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#bandcamp #music @synths #analogSynths #modular #noise #experimentalMusic

stevenray, 2 months ago to animals

These two cuddle bunnies.

Happy Saturday, folks.

#catsOfMastodon #caturday
#dogsOfMastodon

stevenray, 10 days ago to animals

I know it’s not #caturday but Zowie decided that I didn’t do it well enough and besides, she was sitting on her throne.

If anyone knows what specific kind of chair this is, I’d love to know. My #mom loved furniture in this style and my parents had several pieces. We got this one.

French of some era.

#catsOfMastodon
#furniture

stevenray, 2 months ago to homebrewing

Going with a California #Merlot today.

#wine

stevenray, 3 months ago to homebrewing

Do I have a problem? Mayybeee...

Today's haul comes from Trader Joe's, which I haven't been inside since pre-pandemic times. They have a small yet impressive selection. Most wines are cheap. I was amazed to see the Harvey & Harriet red blend there. Snagged one. #wine