thermous @thermous@linernotes.club

I wish I could bottle the extremely powerful "It's summer and everything's right with the world" vibe I get when I hear 1970s-80s cock rock blasting from a rolled down car window

I am not exaggerating when I say that I have probably listened to Sugar's "Copper Blue" from start to finish a minimum of several hundred times, and it's still capable of hitting me right in the gut. It's so goddamn good.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtGOOlh1MPT8Yc39PqxCYIMxr5gB5jZvd #sugar #bobmould #huskerdu #nowplaying #tootradio #desertislanddisc

If it's possible to have a crush on somebody's voice, I've got a big one on Roland Orzabal's. First time I heard this in a friend's dorm room I was like 👀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plGmaUOfe48

Maybe a little bit of a crush on his 1993 hair too.

(I hadn't really absorbed Tears For Fears' 80s output mostly thanks to my older brother's "If it's not 70s guitar rock or instrumental jazz fusion it's crap" tastes during that decade)

Distilled early 1990s (the parallel non alternagrunge early 1990s) in a bottle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dimO83BtyY #nowplaying #np #tootradio #tearsforfears

Not sure who's behind this Mark Linkous memorial/tribute site, but it's nicely done.

https://www.marklinkous.com/

Talked my self out of buying a new turntable after realizing that it's been a shockingly long time since I replaced the belt on my old Garrard, so I'm going to try that first. Went ahead and ordered a new cartridge while I was at it; the "1,000 hours" rule of thumb feels like an impossible sum of time, but if I back-of-napkin my listening habits, it's probably about time

Billy Preston’s Outta Space just came on the grocery store PA and I am simply vibing

It's only Steely Dan it comes from the Steely region of Interzone; otherwise, it's just Sparkling Dan

I was poking around #bandcamp looking for recordings of "In a Shanty In Old Shanty Town" (it's this week's #jazztotw) and discovered the Sunset Serenaders' album "Hokum, Blues and Ballads" which is really nice. (If you dig R. Crumb's Cheap Suit Serenaders, you'll probably like this. It's not as raucous but it's got similar energy.)

https://sunsetserenaders.bandcamp.com/album/hokum-blues-and-ballads

#nowplaying #tootradio #np

Me, just thinkin' about the stadium concert I went to 3 summers ago

Yep, still pretty sure this is my favorite Deep Purple song of many favorite Deep Purple songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjZONFu1fps

#nowplaying #np #tootradio #deeppurple

might fuck around later and finally actually get myself the Foghat logo t-shirt I've wanted my entire life

Another one of the great live albums of the 1970s, with one of the most iconic covers (that die cut! the colors! those mustaches!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ad7otKREGU

#nowplaying #np #tootradio #foghat #rock

I say this every time but god this album is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbTR9rggixo

#nowplaying #np #tootradio #frampton

dammit, now I have to listen to Frampton Comes Alive

With the usual caveat that "yes, of course, a lot of things are still fucked and will continue to be for a long time, but they're a lot less fucked than they were 36 hours ago," I am really loving the fact that I just scrolled the entirety of the google news homepage and saw only one headline mentioning the orange shitgibbon

Every so often you see an album flit by on the "Just purchased" bandcamp feed and you *have* to click on it to see if it sounds like you think it must based on the cover art.

I'd never heard of Eternal Champion but I can confirm that their album "Ravening Iron" sounds *exactly* like you would expect.

https://eternalchampion.bandcamp.com/album/ravening-iron

#nowplaying #np #eternalchampion

The more time I spend poking around #geminispace the more I'm convinced that it won't gain enough traction to be self-sustaining* unless images and/or audio/video media are part of the experience.

By which I mean, reference images in your gemini markup and have them display in the browser without having to click one at a time, because frankly reading nothing but Very Serious Opinions About Gemini And Open Source Software is boring as fuck, and if enthusiasts want content creators (who aren't tech nerds) to embrace it as a funky alternative space they're going to have to give a little bit.

Like, let me cleanse my palate with the occasional Mr. T Ate My Balls or whatever.

Browsing the #gemini hashtag in the fediverse I see a whole lot of "Wow gemini sounds cool! Wait... no images and I can't even use italics? Never mind."

I feel like there's a middle ground to be found between the goal of simplicity/preventing abuse in the form of tracking or advertising; like, why not allow inline media but only if it's hosted on the same server as the page linking to it? Leave it up to client implementations as to whether to automatically display media or require and explicit click, etc.

I would also argue for the absolute barest minimum of styling in the specification; nothing like CSS/layouts/or even fonts, but, say, an optional response header that suggests a light background RGB color and a dark one (for night mode) and maybe even an optional response header that suggests a graphic URI... again, must be hosted on the same server, and again, up to clients to implementation. If hardcore people want to LARP the early 1990s experience they can still do that.

It's very hard to get a sense of "place" when every site looks exactly the same.

* I know the goal of the project isn't widespread popularity, I'm just talking about viability as an interesting subculture for anyone other than tech nerds