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Queer spoonie artist, synth player, and web-something, living in the Netherlands. I post music I like with #SlimesRadio and music I've made with #SlimesMusic.
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Oh! Martino Unstrung is a 2008 documentary about Pat Martino's brain injury, amnesia, and relearning how to be a guitar virtuoso. It's on YouTube!

https://youtu.be/RuuDSU9lQxw

#Film #JazzGuitar #Jazz #Documentary

Martino Unstrung - A Brain Mystery - 2008

YouTube

I'd seen Pat Martino play back in 2007. My son was 10 and I wanted him to see music played live, much like how my mom took me to see theatre, ballet, and music performances as a kid. I hadn't actually heard of Pat Martino before that, but he was playing so I got my mom and my son in the car and we went. I still think about how amazing he is on guitar.

This video goes into his career, recorded a day after he passed away at 77 in 2021. I had no idea he had a cerebral brain hemorrhage in 1980 and had total amnesia. He had to relearn how to play guitar afterward, from scratch, listening to his records to figure it out. Absolutely amazing!

"This Musician STUNNED Me...Pat Martino a Guitar Giant"

https://youtu.be/BUfLZjIQigQ

#Jazz #JazzGuitar

This Musician STUNNED Me...Pat Martino a Guitar Giant

YouTube

I'm enjoying this little pocket game device with Rockbox on it. It took a little bit to install Rockbox. If this model had WiFi like most of their new models it would have been easier, but for nerd stuff it wasn't too bad. The 28XX connects to my desktop via the included USB cable, and I can dump music on it. It's pretty small, a little bigger than the Gameboy Micro.

If you're familiar with Apple devices you'll notice that I don't have to do any of the cursed things that Apple requires to get music playing in my headphones. Indeed the act of listening to music is remarkably free of interference.

The 28XX has two microSD card slots. I can now take my live recordings and listen back to them on this, without doing anything on my computer or in clouds. It's so tremendous and worth it. The entire process of listening to music on my iPhone became so miserable.

I'm also really enjoying Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival for the Gameboy Advance.

Inspired by @Shrigglepuss to try again, I picked up an Anbernic RG28XX to use as an mp3 player. (I installed Rockbox on it, like Shrig did with the RG Nano). I'm really enjoying it!
FYI I'm posting my Slimes Radio posts over on @radio ([email protected]) now! If you enjoy my music-sharing then please check that out.
The Pokémaniac urge to name your business two different things and let customers pick which one aligns with them
I've been using the Instax Mini 99 instant film camera for a year without charging the battery. It's around 40%. That's the kind of tech gear I want.

I signed up for NarraScope 2026! It's a hybrid conference in June.

NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.

https://narrascope.org

NarraScope 2026 | A Hybrid Conference on Interactive Narrative

NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.

And you taste just like fire
and fire was my home
And I couldn't be any higher
when I got you alone

And you, you're in the heart of it
I go to you like the mass
and I, I'm in the thick of it
I'm the chorus
You're the song
I'm the beat
You're the drum
You're the seed that I've sewn
I'm the seed that you've sewn

Geryon, by Leti

from the album Chamber Songs for Love So Pure

Leti