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Black tea after midnight.

Megaphysics and I are playing music down at Ground Kontrol Arcade #pdx for their free play party tonight. Logical Aggression @ GK, 9:00 PM until close, 21 and over, $7 cover.

I'll be on at 9:00 PM, playing a selection of recent (2010s) electro and some '90s Detroit tunes later on. Megaphysics will take the back half, starting at 11:30 PM. I'm looking forward to hearing the new Whities releases he's picked up this month.

I'm selecting tracks right now for tomorrow's show at the arcade. Thinking about Andrew Weatherall. #nowplaying

Two Lone Swordsmen / Faux

The pitch change of a 45 RPM record being played at 33 RPM is -25.92% (according to the Audacity change speed plugin). That seems to be just past -5 semitones.

In case you wanted to, you know, use a DAW (like Renoise) to recreate that effect.

Finished Madeline Ashby's first novel vN yesterday. I picked it up after reading (and enjoying) her book Company Town. There's a lot going on in the book, and I'm not sure it all works, but I liked it well enough. It was a fun read, nerdy, also fairly dark. The prologue was particularly cutting.

It has two sequels - iD, and the forthcoming ReV. I'll read those too, when I find them.

I found this interview with Pamétex while researching show notes today. I thought he was super reclusive, so it surprised me to find anything about him on the web. It's a good interview. #electro

I like that previewing albums on Bandcamp is as bad as previewing albums in a record store. (OK, almost as bad).

Bandcamp? You're streaming what sounds like a 128kbps mp3.

Record store? The provided headphones (and often the needle & cartridge) are always worn out.

It's comforting. Familiar.

More Quake this morning. #QuakeChampions QPL Stage 2 Week 9 over at https://twitch.tv/quake . Toxjq and Xron are playing the first game of the day, going into a third map right now.

This is apparently Zoot's last time doing Quake commentary for a while, too. End of an era. I think he started with the LevelupTV crew 8 or 9 years ago...

There's some live Quake on right for anybody interested. #quakechampions EU/CIS Challenger League winner bracket semifinals Spart1e vs Bukster map 1, over at Zoot's twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/thisiszoot

Spart1e party.

I finished reading "Agency", Gibson's new book, this morning. Really enjoyed it.

It feels like the middle book of one of his trilogies. There's at least one major question left unanswered in both "The Peripheral" and "Agency".

It's a 400 page book with 109 chapters, which was noticeable. I wonder when he started doing that... "Pattern Recognition", I think.

I'm very happy that my sleep schedule is aligned in such a way that I slept through the superbowl.

Now I'd like to go back to daylight hours. Waking up at 10 PM is not great. Not very useful.