Well since I started showing you all my Vinyl Harbor side project, that pretty much made it necessary to show you this srip, too.  :)  Here you see the brother also seen in the last strip as well as the third character I mentioned who has shown up in Stranger Things one or two times since I drew these.  Anyway, enough of side projects.

Ever heard of emusic?  My manager at work turned me on to this service several months ago.  It’s a legal MP3 download service with various levels of subcription fees.  I subscribe for $15/month to get 65 downloads per month.  It’s been a fun service to subscribe to, but the music available is not done by the most well-known, mainstream artists as a general rule.  It’s great for fans of indie music, or jazz, or classical with a hit-or-miss smattering of artists in other genres.  I’ve discovered several great artists thru my 65 downloads per month including Erin Bode, Abigail Washburn, and Hem among others.  Well, this morning I was ecstatic to a high degree of silliness when I discovered that they have just added the Flower Kings catalog, in its near-entirety, to their service!  Only one album is missing that I can tell, “The Rainmaker”.  I have been a HUGE fan of the Flower Kings since I ordered my first of their albums from Amazon.com earlier this past Spring, “Space Revolver”.  That album has become one of my all-time favorites since then and I’ve managed to pick up this year’s “Paradox Hotel” double-album as well as “Unfold the Future”.  But this morning I happily added to those “Adam and Eve”, “Back in the World of Adventures” and Roine Stolt’s album that started the band, “The Flower King”, using up about half of November’s 65 downloads…  But boy, oh boy, was it ever worth it.  I look forward to rounding out my collection next month with a couple more.  MAJOR Kudos to emusic for expanding on their prog rock offerings with the neo prog genre leaders, the Flower Kings.  Now they just need to add the Spock’s Beard catalog!!

Happy Friday!!

P.S. 

I just saw this article at the website for our local paper and had to laugh.  Yeah, the Rolling Stones are going to stop by on Tuesday and do a little gig.  Little by their usual standards, anyway, HUGE by Idaho concert standards.  And according to this article they are showing signs of age.  Uh huh.  Signs of age.  That journalist must mean BIG BILLBOARD type signs of age.  I mean come one, Keanu Reeves is showing signs of age!  Let’s be honest, Keith Richards looks like he’s been dead for years.  The whole band is suffering hostile abuse at the vicious hand of age.  Sheesh.  If the stones are showing signs of age, then Satan is showing signs of immorality.

We must have some journalists out here that are pretty new to the English language.

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