listening to: Belle and Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister
Checking out: Wockerjabby (rabi)
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Diesel-powered ferrets! Thousands of them! All of them frilly!
(thank you, random surrealism generator)
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St. Paul's church in St. Petersburg, FL had acoustic tiles put up all around its music area and the inner walls so that the church music would sound decent and wouldn't echo or deafen the parishoners. This was about six years ago, and they were very expensive and well-installed. Zoom ahead to last year: new management (read: new priest & parish council) decide to give the church a much-needed coat of paint. Instead of taking down the tiles or working around them, the volunteers simply painted over the tiles. Now, there's never really been anything disguising how badly the church musicians sound; they've always been rather eh. However, now they're awful and loud. Luckily for me, I stopped being Catholic long before this, and haven't been to St. Paul's in quite a while. This has been the only distinct advantage of my long spiritual crisis, but I think it's been worth it.

My entry on acoustic tiles has become one on religion. All roads really do lead to Rome!