I miss my long hair. I'm growing it back out.
There's colour in the trees now. It's quite beautiful.
I just wish it wasn't quite so wet.
I found out the record player in the basement actually works. It's an antique thing from the sixties with vacuum tubes in the circuitboard. You can hear it warm up...rather nice. I went in search of a cheap record to test it with, since the ones that were hiding inside it already were all either gospel (my late grandmother's) or a pretty scratched-up Disney's Cinderella record. (mine from when i was very tiny.
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The decent store downtown (the one with taste...haha) was closed, so I wandered into Hot Topic. The one in Asheville has a small vinyl section. I came out with Portishead, self-titled. Nightmare before Christmas was too expensive at the moment, and i refuse to play Korn or Marilyn Manson on my grandmother's Stereophonic antique record player. It just strikes me as extremely disrespectful...and i believe in ghosts. I'm not dishonouring my grandmother...so it's stuff like Portishead, Disney, and when i get ahold of some of it, swing jazz. Besides, what could be better than swing music pouring out of a record player from the same era?
As soon as i can afford it, i'm going to be shopping for a substitute...i don't want to blow a vacuum tube (the originals are what's in it...replacements are where??) and i don't want to blow the speakers or mess up the needle. Everything's original, and I want to keep it that way.
There's just something that makes me glow about hearing Cinderelly bubbling (and popping...ah, records!) out of a record player again.
There's colour in the trees now. It's quite beautiful.
I just wish it wasn't quite so wet.
I found out the record player in the basement actually works. It's an antique thing from the sixties with vacuum tubes in the circuitboard. You can hear it warm up...rather nice. I went in search of a cheap record to test it with, since the ones that were hiding inside it already were all either gospel (my late grandmother's) or a pretty scratched-up Disney's Cinderella record. (mine from when i was very tiny.
)
The decent store downtown (the one with taste...haha) was closed, so I wandered into Hot Topic. The one in Asheville has a small vinyl section. I came out with Portishead, self-titled. Nightmare before Christmas was too expensive at the moment, and i refuse to play Korn or Marilyn Manson on my grandmother's Stereophonic antique record player. It just strikes me as extremely disrespectful...and i believe in ghosts. I'm not dishonouring my grandmother...so it's stuff like Portishead, Disney, and when i get ahold of some of it, swing jazz. Besides, what could be better than swing music pouring out of a record player from the same era?
As soon as i can afford it, i'm going to be shopping for a substitute...i don't want to blow a vacuum tube (the originals are what's in it...replacements are where??) and i don't want to blow the speakers or mess up the needle. Everything's original, and I want to keep it that way.
There's just something that makes me glow about hearing Cinderelly bubbling (and popping...ah, records!) out of a record player again.
we have a local group of us that meet, but you must be active on the site and have photos.