Nice Gretsch and very nice Eastman[1]. I had a silver sparkle Jet Club with humbuckers for a bit that I eventually traded in a Craigslist deal that I got Umi in[2]. I fully understand the jazz guitar urge though, for the longest time in high school I wanted a sunburst 335 in vain on Yutaka Hirasaka, but my genres switched to emo around the start of college, and that's how I ended up with Juniper
Can't wait to hear some stuff from them in the future
EDIT: added detail and formating
thank you! the jr really makes me want to explore other pickups because id never had p90s before and the broadtron bridge is sort of like gretsch's humbuckerfied filtertron and id read somewhere that actual filtertrons are a big hotter and compressed which sounds like a really nice upgrade sometime in the future. for the jazzbox i learnt a little bit of Misty and Fly me To the Moon but I wanna try actually familiarizing myself with the board for improv, or at least something close 
Yeah, P90's are great despite me not playing them too often: arguably one of the most versatile pickup styles as well (from jazz to punk to even metal). Bad-ish news though on the broadtron; from some online digging and experience with my own G5425 from years ago, it's just a normal humbucker voiced to sound filtertron-like. Also, true filtertrons are smaller and narrower than normal humbuckers, so unless an adapter plate is available[1], I don't see an easier upgrade path to a filtertron other than filling and rerouting the body. Of course, humbuckers are also very versatile[2], and the sound clips I've heard of the Brodtron sound good to me. Who knows, there might be an after-market pickup that is a true humbucker spaced filtertron that I don't know about
Same here, but I play in too many alternate tunings for much of it to stick 
Good luck on whatever you decide!
Small collection of City Lights Bookstore[1] stuff. It's on my bucket list of places to go to eventually if I ever find the time/money to
RIP Lawrence Ferlinghetti ↩︎
Some time ago i got the Rolife bookstore book nook as a present.
It is a fun booknook kit, quite doable to put together ans also fun to look at.
Now the only "problem" (besides the price maybe) is that the light that comes with the set runs of two AAA batteries that run out quite quickly so now i bought a power adapter to connect to the light so i can run it of mains power 
That guitar looks really cool, i love the wood (like) body of the guitar, the warm wood "colour" gives it a comfy feeling.
Book stores are fun places, i don’t go to them all that often sadly but especially book stores filled with all kinds of 2nd hand old books have really good vibes :)
(I should probably also read more real books instead of just fanfic...)
Libraries are also really great though, the vibe is a bit different but being able to just borrow books for (nearly) free is a great sociatal good.
Yeah, City Lights seems like a great place. This video [6 mins] I feel get the idea across the best
I'm trying to expand my poetry catalogue through used bookstores. The main one I visit though is about 45 minuets away from me, but they also have all other media (music on all major formats, games from all the major retro consoles, Pokémon/YGO/MTG cards (one price to fill a bag as much as you can), almost every kind of retro junk you can think of [from HiFi to guitars, from retro toys to film cameras]). On my last visit, I got the copy of Howl and Other Poems in the picture, as well as new and selecteds by Stanley Kunitz and Ted Kooser, and the Zenit 11 I posted about here.
Speaking of new books, got this yesterday for a good price; one that I was looking for after hearing her read her poem[1] Those Times... on an episode of USA Poetry
There's a certain horror to hearing Sexton read her work: retrained, almost robotic, but with so much emotion behind every word and pause she makes ↩︎
I saw this video by f4mi and got inspired.
Lyrion Music Server: Set up!
Squeezebox Duet: Acquired!
Edit: Also I can't believe I didn't mention this, the original software for the music server was completely open source, which is how the community was able to spin up an alternative to it so quickly when Logitech discontinued the online service in 2024!
ok how do you use this where is the ai how do you use this without ai
The real AI was in your heart all along. 
god i hope not
But no seriously, I'm finding that a lot of older tech from that era is actually really really good and still incredibly useful. They truly don't make them like they used to, and I'm not joking. 
I may also be going a bit overboard self-hosting a lot of things now that I have an Unraid server
Got another package from City Lights! Had to censor my legal name, but that was easy. New additions are Pictures of the Gone World, Kaddish and Other Poems, City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, and the shirt on the left of the second image (bookmark came free)
New manga!
I know absolutely nothing about it, but I really like the cover (and slow and cosy post-apo sounds like totally my thing)
Eng title: The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse
Also I discovered that my cargo pants pocket fits one average size manga tom perfectly XD [1]
That cover is rad 
[1]
I'm a sucker for good color usage, you can make sutch amazing art even when using very limited colors.
i find it funny we use "rad" kind of normally but using "radicale" feels very wierd to me ↩︎
New ace ring came in today. Nothing that expensive ($21) since I have a habit of occasionally taking it off/forgetting it[1], but picked this one because of the copper/"rose gold" stripe since copper is my favorite element.
Editing to add this hat that also came in today[2]:
YAY YAHOO YIPEEEEEE
Tis the Brish’ version but the nichijou bluerays are so hard to get for any somewhat reasonable price nowadays but I was able to find this sealed brand new UK version of it for 40$ with only 3 left so I took it while I could and I doubt there’s very many differences between a UK copy of a Japanese show and a US copy of a Japanese show, also I have an un-reigonlocked Blueray player so I’m all good!
Yeah, with a region free player, you should be fine
I bought a PS3 a while back and I modded it and have been using it for physical stuff it’s kind of the perfect ‘little’ machine for watching offline stuff nowadays if you mod it, there’s a Hombrew program called Movian which can fetch subtitles and stuff and load stuff of your usb and most custom firmware and whatnot also un-reigon locks the Blueray player, you can get a original phat one with the old logo and all for less than 80 usd used, it’s what I got, I originally got it because I was going to try to turn it into a little retro pc gaming thing and you can only flash other operating systems to the phat PS3s but you should be able to get a Slim or a Superslim for a little bit more and use it for all of the media purposes that I use mine for nowadays if you need the space and don’t want your PS3 sounding like a jet engine…
Also the PS3 can’t output 4K (crazy I know) but if you have an older TV that can’t do 4K or just a cheap newer one it’s pretty much perfect (also if you have an older Sony TV you can get a PS3 media remote and use it to control your TV and the console, waow…)
New book(s) day[1]!
EDIT: updated the title of the Frost collection
{left} Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Frost: Poems - Robert Frost (edited by John Hollander) | {right} New Directions Selected Poems - Federico García Lorca ↩︎
I got myself an Anbernic RG 40XXV
It's a linux handheld in the shape of a gameboy! How cool is that?!
Not relay bought, but acquired but I could't find a better place to post it sooooo
I found this thing in the trash (or more precisely the unusual garbage zone where you put furniture, big electronics and such)
It does... em... something
But it looks really cool doing it!
It is some kind of lab time display thing.
I don't thing the internal wave generator works, but I think I could make a simple clock out of it. I just need to figure out what kind of wave would display as something resembling time (it doesn't have to be precise, i just want the cool numbers to change and some kind of vague resemblance of functionality[1])
it weights like 7kg so i don't think i would be able to justyfy it as just a cool lamp ↩︎
