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Riffed and soloed a bit with my flanger tonight... I feel I should build another, smaller pedalboard to fit it permanently. My board is great, but the 11 pedals on it are put together in a way which is fairly limited in amount of available sounds - by design, to be user-friendly. I have my clean...

Early on when I first got into music in the 2000's I was a massive Randy Rhoads fan, and it would have been an easy choice - but today I don't know. Neither is among my top players anymore, though their influence is substantial on everything guitar. Eddie developed a great tone and style easily...

Finished The Last Astronaut (2019) by David Wellington. A first contact story which never really took off for me. Felt like a more boring Rendezvous with Rama without any new ideas which went on for too long. Also read Shadow Captain (2019) by Alastair Reynolds. A direct sequel to the...

Watched Promising Young Woman (2020). Excellent film, I think. Also watched Green Book (2018). Biopic/drama/comedy about virtuoso pianist Don Shirley and his bodyguard 'Tony Lip' Vallelonga - freaking great. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, it is both feelgood and sad in its...

My favourite series ever... and I agree about the ending. It's one of the best ever, if you ask me. I don't necessarily agree about too long though. I wanted more. And I think one of the reasons King is such a beloved author, is because his books are long and we actually get to spend time with...

I kind of liked the video. It reminded me of their 80's videos. "Breaking the Chains" was supremely weird. Have long since come to terms with what vocal ability there is left. But I think it's a nice song, and basically coming out of (album) retirement and releasing an album 11 years since the...

Watched The Girl on the Train (2016). A thriller I found much more pleasant than I expected it to be. From the intriguing beginning I expected it to go off the rails entirely, judging from the mixed reviews and previous experiences with thrillers of this kind, but it never did. Emily Blunt is...

Finished Billy Summers (2021) by Stephen King. King doing crime once again. A hitman is hired to do one last job before retiring, and it goes like you'd expect it to. Decent, a relatively well-crafted story, but did not hit me like The Institute did earlier this year. Also finished Space Opera...

Indeed. I am all for riffing away with a capo, but I don't much like downtuned music. Just my personal taste. I do like some drop-D riffs, but lower than that and I'm usually out. As for the tuning itself, yeah... But it's the best compromise we'll ever get for playing chords comfortably. Open...

Cool! I wouldn't have minded an 80's sounding record, doing the retro thing - but Shirley worked on this? Definitely going to add it to my collection, no matter what it sounds like.

Finished Antimatter Blues (2023) by Edward Ashton. Excellent sequel. Continues where Mickey7 left off basically, and is a fun and engaging sci-fi story - to me even better than the first novel. I really have no complaints, other than having to wait awhile for the next sequel... Yes, the aliens...

Read Dark Matter (2016) by Blake Crouch. If you by any chance haven't heard of it, it's a technothriller dealing with parallell realities - and an insanely good one. My third book this year dealing with this plot device, and it's arguably the best one. Crouch manages to make it fresh and at the...

Read The Last Passenger (2023) by Will Dean. A thriller, but maybe also horror. Felt like a few crazy Black Mirror episodes in one... and while Dean certainly pulls it off without any dips in momentum or suspense, I called the twists a few chapters in and wasn't surprised in the slightest...

We call them smultron in Swedish. Used to find those in my parents backyard. Absolutely delicious and much better than strawberries. About the OP question - hard to say. Italian ice cream? All'amarena all the way. Cake? Hard to beat strawberry. Eating them just as they are? Depends on what type...

Finished Artemis (2017) by Andy Weir. A paranthesis; an in between filler between two future SF classics. Not all through terrible, but there are other books to read... Also read Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. Reminiscent of Andy Weir in the narrative style, without as much focus on technical...

Read 5 books since I last posted. Among these: Project Hail Mary (2021) by Andy Weir. This is the given SF-classic of the 2020's. Just a fantastic novel. Accessible, optimistic and with huge emotional impact. Perhaps more a classic science fiction story than The Martian, including all the...

Read A Half-Built Garden (2022) by Ruthanna Emrys. A first contact science fiction novel, dubbed 'diaperpunk' by the author in the afterword. Zero action to be found here. Instead, humanity's first contact with extraterrestial intelligent life will focus a lot about motherhood and changing...

I feel like Has anyone seen the series or read the book Behind Her Eyes? My girlfriend showed it to me and...