#HappyMonday, y'all! www.youtube.com/watch?v=erR5...

#Music "... full-blooded, rousing, intense and often very beautiful." Indeed so! The new @doomedbird.bsky.social LP, 'Meteoric Heralds of Danger,' IS.SO.GOOD. Thank you, @markkluzek.bsky.social for releasing it in a physical format! narcmagazine.com/album-review...

Spent all morning tidying up the house after the painters and listening to 'I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell' by Current 93 (The Spheres, 2014). Tibet's incantatory powers are on full display on that particular release. #Incredible #Music

Priceless!

@misterquartet.bsky.social Oh, and, Belated Happy Birthday -- and many more!!!

@misterquartet.bsky.social Thank you for Television's 'Marquee Moon' in Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2026 Vol 18, I needed that.

#BOOKS Finished the novella 'Killing Stella' (@NewDirections, 2025) by Marlen Haushofer. Described by its publisher as "a domestic horror story," this interior monologue by one member of a very dysfunctional family is muted and oblique, and, well, disturbing. #READING

#Books Finished 'Cities of the Plain' (@aaknopf.bsky.social, 1998), the final volume in the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy. A brief line from this masterpiece: "The probability of the actual is absolute." God, the man could write. #Reading

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA by the numbers. In 15 days: drove 3,403 miles across 5 states; visited 1 Nat'l Monument, 1 Tribal Monument, 1 Tribal Park, & 4 Nat'l Parks in 3 states; & visited w 6 friends, 5 family members, & 1 almost-college-roommate in 2 states. #Awesome

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 12, Mesa Verde National Park CO

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 11, Great Sand Dunes National Park CO

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 9, Rocky Mountain National Park CO

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 7, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park CO

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 6, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park AZ

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 5, Phoenix AZ to Monument Valley National Tribal Park AZ

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 4, Phoenix AZ [Busman's Holiday II]

#Southwest #USA #RoadTrip Day 3, Tucson to Phoenix [Busman's Holiday I]

#Southwest #USA #RoadTrip Day 2

#RoadTrip Day 1: Tucson AZ.

Gearing up for my first solo road trip following the loss of my darling wife by listening to the 50th Anniversary boxset ed. of 'Bongo Fury' by @frankzappa.bsky.social, Captain Beefheart, and the Mothers. As one does. #Music

R.I.P. Sam Kieth, co-creator of The Sandman comic. Fantastic artist, taken too young (63). #Comics

#BOOKS Just finished 'Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group' (TangerinePress 2025) by Rebecca Gransden. Very literate horror novel, beautifully executed. Currently short-listed for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize, deservedly. #READING

So, I got a notice today addressed to my late wife from the SD Country Registrar of Voters telling her that her "registration record is scheduled to be cancelled ... due to ... [her] ineligibility to vote ... due to ... death ..." Yep, that'll do it.

#Music R.I.P. John Hammond, Jr. What a distinguished career and lineage.

Well, this weekend I received my late wife's death certificate. I guess it hasn't all been just a bad dream. 💔

R.I.P. Eliane Radigue. Your influence on #Music, especially electronic #Music, is incalculable.

#Books Finished #reading 'Whitefoot' (Counterpoint, 2009), a children's book (illustrated) I found on my late darling wife's night table while ridding our bedroom of the death juju. This from that: "That one lives at the center of the world is the world's profoundest thought."

Wow. @misterquartet.bsky.social Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2026 Vol 04 was fabulous. And plus also too, Mr. Blue used the expression "jiggery pokery"!

@misterquartet.bsky.social Thanks for all the classical music on vol. 04. Very nice.

@misterquartet.bsky.social Ciśnienie - [angry noises] !!!

Last evening, at 4:30pm Pacific, the light and love of my life passed from this plane. Next Saturday, Valentine's Day, we would have been married 41 years. I promised her that while I'd miss her every day and in every way, I'd be fine. And I shall, in time. #FuckCancer #IWillAlwaysLoveYouSherri

Meanwhile, in local news, Marian Jasper Blue of Vista, Calif. is petitioning the Superior Court of San Diego to change her name to Marian Thelibrarian. I had not previously realized that Thelibrarian was one word (or, er, name).

When the going gets tough, the tough listen to Bach's Cello Suites.

#Music Diary, 21 Jan 2026: Legendary Pink Dots 'A Scented Candle' (NoiseNoiseNoise, 2016) Suss 'Self-Titled' (Northern Spy, 2022)

I say: "If you should chance to meet me as I wander to and fro ..." You say: ?

#Music Diary, 18 Jan 2026: Beethoven/Emanuel Ax 'The 5 Piano Concertos; Choral Fantasy' (2003) Mike Johnson 'The Gardens of Loss' (2026)

#Music Diary, 17 Jan 2026: Anoice 'Stories in White' (2012) Present 'This Is NOT the End' (2024) Yang 'Rejoice!' (2024) Univers Zero 'Live at the Triton 2009' (2025)

#Music I have now listened to @i-p-r.bsky.social's new comp. 'The Well' three times through and it is SO.GOOD.

#Music Diary, 14 Jan 2026: • G Lisher 'Underwater Detection Method' (2024) • T Dockstader 'Aerial #1' (2005) • Miriodor 'Elements' (2022) • Univers Zero 'Lueur' (2023) • S Grossman 'Struttin' Out' (1986) • Vivaldi/A S Mutter/Trondheim Soloists 'Four Seasons' (1999)

#Music Diary, 9 Jan 2026: Tim Hart/Maddy Prior 'Sing Folk Songs of Old England Vol II' (Crest, 1976) The Pentangle 'Solomon's Seal' (@RepriseRecords, 1972) 'Pierre Boulez Conducts Schoenberg' CDs 1-6 (@sonyclassical, 2013) [#Music to work by]

#Music Diary, 8 Jan 2026: Woo 'It's Cosy Inside' (@i-p-r.bsky.social 1989) 'Music and Noise, KXCI 91.7, Tucson, 09 March 1984' [w @becsceb.bsky.social] The Fall 'This Nation's Saving Grace' (Beggars Banquet 1985) Terry Riley 'The Cusp of Magic' (@Nonesuch.com 2008) & 'In C' (New Albion 1995)

@stellagarp.bsky.social You're not near where that ICE killing just happened, are you? Be safe!

#Music Diary, 6 Jan 2026: Stefan Grossman 'Live!' (Transatlantic, 1973) The Legendary Pink Dots 'Poppy Variations' (Beta-lactam Ring, 2005) Jeffrey Runnings 'Piqued' (@i-p-r.bsky.social, 2025) Hespèrion XX 'Middle Ages & Renaissance' (Fontalis/Auvidis, 1997)

#Music Diary, 5 Jan 2026: S. Grossman/J. Renbourn 's/t' (Kicking Mule, 1978) J. Hartford 'Aereo • Plain' (@warnerbros, 1971) T. Hart/M. Prior 'Folk Songs of Old England, Vol. 1' (Mooncrest, 1976) 'Cloudland Blue Eclctc Slctn 2026 Vol. 01' (@mixcloud 2026) Nurse With Wound 6 x Lenka Lente 3" CDs

#Music Diary, 4 Jan 2026: The Legendary Pink Dots 'A Perfect Mystery' (Beta-lactam Ring, 2001) 'Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2025 Vol 51' comp. (@mixcloud, 2025) 'The Viennese School - Teachers & Followers: Alban Berg' comp. (MDG, 2007)

@misterquartet.bsky.social Consentrik Quartet from 25/51: tasty indeed. Thanks!

#Music Diary, 3 Jan 2026: Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2025 Vol 51 comp. (@mixcloud 2025) The Hafler Trio, The distribution of interactions ...(invertedun6rella 2026) K. Stockhausen, Kontakte (Wergo 1992) E. Rautavaara, Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (@OndineRecords 1991)

@misterquartet.bsky.social Ah, never mind. Krokofant. I say again, Damn ...

@misterquartet.bsky.social Morning, Dave. On Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2025 Vol 51, who is that playing at 1:22:35? Damn ...

#Music Diary, 2 Jan 2026: John Renbourn, Traveller's Prayer (Shanachie, 1998); MX-80 Sound, Better Than Life (Klanggalerie, 2023); LSD March, Jurando (Reverb Worship, 2008); Cut Up: Deconstructing W.S. Burroughs comp. (Unexplained Sounds, 2024) Suss, s/t (Northern Spy, 2022)