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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 24/09/2026

me: Lover’s Rock by Sade! What a great album! I wonder when that came out? uncaring universe: 26 years ago

Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 22/09/2026

Caught a show by The Midnight last weekend. Good stuff! I am firmly pro saxophone in electronica 🎷 (see also Caravan Palace)

The Midnight performing at SOMA in San Diego CA. Two guitarists, a drummer, a synth bass player, and a saxophonist bathed in red lights on stage

Bonnie McKee and Tyler Lyle singing a duet.

Absolute GOAT saxophone player for The Midnight

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 17/09/2026

Tracks. Just like their tech support!

Distrokid, the distributor I used to hijack Lathe of Heaven's pages, did not respond to a request for comment.

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 10/09/2026

I was at a 70s themed gala recently and the dinner placemats were #vinyl… and it was a bit of a travesty. I rescued a bunch of Motown and Blue Note records from the trash bin and have been cleaning them up. Good stuff!

Record player with a bunch of loose records to the right and cleaning tools to the left. On deck is “Mister Magic” by Grover Washington Jr on the Motown imprint

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 01/09/2026

Shaved off my goatee as a gag for a party Saturday night. My family has bullied me into keeping it. I look like a crooked cop.

Crooked cop looking MF. Bald guy with glasses and a thick mustache.

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 01/08/2026

Studio conditions: less than ideal. But the weekly beats must flow.

Thermometer showing indoor temperature of 87.9 degrees Fahrenheit

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 26/07/2026

Catching Uncle Tims play literally the most Southern California show ever at the beach in Encinitas

Uncle Tims playing on Moonlight Beach in Encinitas

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 19/07/2026

A clean workbench is salve for the soul 😌

A workbench that is clean of the detritus that had infected it for at least a year. Tools are cleanly pegboarded behind the bench

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 16/07/2026

Had no idea what this was, and damn if it didn’t blow my doors off. Jimmy Rodgers vibed blues/folk/vaudeville/Tin Pan Alley music, recorded in 1975 but really from anytime. So good! #vinyl #nowplaying

On the Track album by Leon Redbone on the deck. The Warner Bros dancing on a railroad track with a train bearing down on it.

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 14/07/2026

Joking aside I’ve had the same SM57 forever. Pretty sure it can buy booze and cigarettes at this point. The Nokia of mics

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 14/07/2026

The key to getting your space unfucked is to allow a little bit of puttering to keep your sanity. I used my drill press (yes I have one shut up) to drill a hole in free spinning stand end, then drove a nail through it to fix it. Neat!

The end of a mic stand in the foreground. A hole has been drilled through the shaft and the head of a nail is visible, fixing the previously spinning threads in place. In the background is my drill press, inherited from Laura’s grandfather. Jealousy is an ugly look on you, try and fix your face.

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 28/06/2026

Door County, Wisconsin y’all. Hanging with Sawyer from Uncle Tims.

Chairs in front of the coast of Green Bay

Sawyer in silhouette playing guitar on the shore of Green Bay

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 22/06/2026

Still have my PT-1, but it did get circuit bent in 2004…

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 22/06/2026

In the mid-80s he bought a Casio keyboard. I never knew exactly what he did with it, all I know is I coveted it and loved banging on the big yellow drum pads. He obliged me on occasion and let me play

Casio CT-510, with giant yellow octagonal drum pads. I’m not certain this is the exact model my brother owned, I just remember the drum pads vividly.

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 05/06/2026

I am officially “giant headphones in public” years old

Old guy with gray beard wearing giant oversized headphones while on a walk

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 31/05/2026

Reading “How To Write One Song” by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. Damn refreshing and imo the antidote to AI music. Bottom line is that the *process* is the joy and art, not the end result. What meaning does a song have if there was no struggle to create it?

Cover of the book “How To Write One Song” by Jeff Tweedy. Illustration of a man in a wicker hat looking up and contemplating a single note above his head.

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 27/05/2026

Benefits of driving to your hotel room: free* wet bar. (*not actually free but have you seen the drink prices at this place?)

DIY wet bar with two flavors of rum, Suntory whiskey, and wine

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 26/05/2026

Tower of Power up and running, this time for recording. Full reamp setup for both guitar and bass, with the possibility of miking it all live or just monitoring. All on a single master switch. Got some buzz I gotta get isolated tho.

Vox AC3 on top of a Blackheart Handsome Devil, next to a pair of GK 1x12 cabs under a t.c. electronic solid state head. Two floor boards, a Boss GX-100 and a Line6 Pod HD100, out in front of

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 26/05/2026

Dog buddy shenanigans. Definitely trouble brewing

Two Tijuana brown dogs, one with her paw on the other’s shoulders

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 20/05/2026

Just another day. Shower. Light lunch. Watch your singer testify in the Senate. Might have a drink later.

Laura speaking at the Senate Committee on Aging

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 20/05/2026

Biggest “duh” studio hacks in Ableton - name your inputs to… what they are hooked up to. Several brain cycles saved a session.

Ableton Input Config dialog open with the inputs properly named

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 11/05/2026

Feeling stale. Need to learn a new instrument. Chat how does one incorporate mandolin into trip hop?

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 09/05/2026

Absolutely gorgeous guitar I saw today. Body is hand made, neck is a Lynn Ellsworth, Seymour Duncan Radiator pickups. Paging @weirdguita.rs

My pops holding a gorgeous natural wood finished guitar

Gorgeous guitar with beautiful gold hardware. Amazing solid tailpiece

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 02/05/2026

Not as cool as my Bohemian Guitars Surf Wax though, back when those guys were still in business. Pretty decent player with a P50. Fun little guitar

Bohemian Guitars Surf Wax oil can guitar

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 02/05/2026

Built a little 3 stringer for my dad during COVID, fun project. Original can was pretty boring so I painted over it. Got some cool cans that I need to make into guitars at some point…

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 02/05/2026

Getting royalty statements from companies I sort of vaguely remember signing up for - always good for a chuckle

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 23/04/2026

From my hotel room in Beijing many years ago

Warning sign or a slipping person that says “be careful of landslide”

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 18/04/2026

Finally, to wrap it all up, fire up your DAW, load a project, and confirm everything is happy. Mother of god, Ableton screams now. And I freed up 70GB of space on my system drive. Thing of beauty 🥲

Thumb up in front of a studio desk running Ableton Live

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 18/04/2026

With backups complete (and AnalogLab preset shopping done) it's time to hit the app list. Uninstall the stuff you don't use, but be careful about the things you don't recognize -- best to leave it unless you know you can nuke it.

Loooooong list of installed apps, with Atlas crossed out (no hate on Atlas, I just don't use it)

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 18/04/2026

Now for the painful one. Run all of your stupid software installers (which will all update, of course) and then install updates. Just do it. You don't want to be doing it when you're really sitting down to be productive.

A screenshot of all the stupid software installer clients that install the dumb amount of software I own.

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 18/04/2026

Given that the physical studio is a disaster and I’m generally feeling like doing boring stuff, I’m going to do some spring cleaning on the ‘ole Win 10 recording box here in Car Hole Sound Foundry. Follow along!

Studio space in an epic state of disrepair. Full miked drum kit, XLR cables everywhere, random kick drum next to a couch that is also covered in detritus

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 18/04/2026

Alrighty, well, I think it’s time to give the “slangin’ CDs” thing a shot again. I was actually using one of these boxes under my keyboard stand, but with better packaging materials and shipping stuff I think I can make a better go at it.

Two large boxes full of Endless Blue CDs on a leather couch

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 10/04/2026

Oh my God. I think I have achieved peak 80s. This was on the GTA Vice City soundtrack, right? #nowplaying #vinyl

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 10/04/2026

EB at The Frequency (RIP) in Madison, WI back in 2014. #tbt

Four musicians on a stage bathed in blue light - a guitarist with a ball cap, a drummer with spiky hair, a singer in a short skirt and military jacket, and a bass player rocking a suit

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 08/04/2026

Got to see Billy Gibbons play this live a few months back at the Belly Up in Solana Beach. Coolest motherfucker in the history of cool motherfuckers.

Bearded guy in sunglasses and a fancy red coat standing in front of a wall of amps, playing a gorgeous flower inlaid Telecaster

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 27/03/2026

Adventures in air travel! MKE -> SAN got here an hour early and… 5 mins thru security. Laura will never let me live this one down 😬. Fully recombobulated at least.

The infamous Recombobulation Area in MKE

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 23/03/2026

Adventures in air travel! 30 mins to just get thru the Clear + line in Terminal 1 at SAN. 🎉🎉🎉

Massive line of people waiting for TSA at Terminal 1 at San Diego International

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 21/03/2026

It’s been a while since we had an original music release. Excited to share this one. Coming soon…

Cover of the Endless Blue single Beautiful Season. A gray pair of shoes standing on wet blacktop with leaves falling around them.

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 16/03/2026

Okay maybe I won’t play the weird acoustic baritone guitar 😢

Reverb listing for the Taylor GT-8 baritone acoustic guitar for the low low price of $2999.99

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 14/03/2026

Aligning vocals. I know there’s a whole ass plug-in to do this now, but I prefer my vocals cage free organic artisanal. Or because I’m a cheap bastard.

Reaper session with giant vocal tracks open with a bunch of little edits

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 13/03/2026

I mean cmon. Also a falconer because of course.

Active manager of semi-arid rangeland is also a falconer

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Endless Blue @endlessblue.com · 12/03/2026

Said it once, I’ll say it again. Laura’s vocals are, uh, “dynamic” in a way that compression just does not handle well. So automation. This is my life now.

A Reaper session with the vocal automation being a hideous squiggle

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