September 2009
17 posts
Today I Saw
500 million-year-old painted rocks.
Harbor lights strung from rooftop to rooftop.
White Brown-water rapids 100 feet tall.
A awe-inspiring sunset on the bay.
TV screens flickering in the windows of small log cabins.
Ass-less chaps.
Manure and tandem bicycles.
Today I saw the U.P.
August 2009
12 posts
Vinyl Voyage Day 4
XTC, Skylarking, 1986
I wish I did this stupid digitizing project earlier in the summer. The first track, though beautiful, was painful to listen intently to. Andy Partridge worbles wonderful words of “drowning in Summer’s cauldron” followed by harmonious shouts of joy and freedom. It makes me quite sad, as I am now surfacing from my own drowning in my own boiling pot of my...
…peek through her blinds.
I’m only...
Vinyl Voyage Day 3
Blondie, Autoamerican, 1980
The first full length LP I recorded so far. I tried playing a game online to pass the time, but I missed adding new tracks about 4 different times. So this 45 minute record took me about 2 - 3 hours to import. However, the first three tracks, which played about 4 more times than the other songs, were an awesome medley of sound: “Europa” with its...
Vinyl Voyage Day 2
New Order, Blue Monday - Single (import), 1983
Dance party in the office. The alternate mix B-side, titled The Beach, kept my audio meters in the red at all times. If a disco played New Order constantly, you’d find me there. Also, to show my n00bishness, I originally digitized this at 33RPM. “I don’t remember this being ten minutes long, or his voice being so...
Vinyl Voyage Day 1
Black Flag, Jealous Again - EP, 1980
It has Ron Reyes vocals though, so an interesting first listen since I’m used to Henry Rollins. It’s one of the first releases of the group so they hadn’t really worked out the kinks of being in a band yet. Like when in the middle of recording Ron threw a fit, yelling and screaming and throwing expensive things around willy-nilly. After...
“And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?”
– John Fogerty
Oh I wish I had a suntan.
I wish I had a pizza...