on the heels of my post yesterday the purveyors of hot fuzz rock, Happy Diving are re-releasing Electric Soul Unity on green vinyl. I had this album on repeat for at least a year!
happydiving.bandcamp.com/album/ele…
couple rock bands i really really like over the last few years. bands when i hear a song i go back and put a full album on.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (or C.F.) - The French Press is as enjoyable now as ever
Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart is a triumph
Skeggs - Pick anything and enjoy
Couldn’t resist picking up this little beauty for $20. Put a new belt in but playing too fast. Gonna do some fettling and see if I can get it to the proper speed and then build a new enclosure.
Had a nice start to the weekend by “repairing” the broken track selector on my K-mart special 8-Track player. Seems like as good an excuse as any to relax to the smooth stylings of the Jackey Yoshikawa and His Blue Comets.
Silly finds today. A proper business man’s cassette folio, a Kmart 8 track player, some really interesting Edison discs, and a funky kids record/cassette player. I did falter and pick up the folio and 8track player for $20 combined.
having an eventful day and decided to change out the oil on the square as well…kind of crazy how easy these tasks are on an older car
headed out to a local flea market and picked up several cassettes for $5…can’t explain the time machine effect with enough emphasis…caused me to reach out and share with my sister…engendered a hilarious mixup of jim morrison with van morrison by the wife
getting older is staying surprisingly fresh….new milestones and odd occurrences…..one of the more amusing things is noticing the number of automated birthday wishes i received from doctors offices…
which makes me think….ummm is this the right way to use my information?
Late night working on a tenant migration project. Needed a little juice. Chastity Belt to the rescue.
Chastity Belt - I used to spend so much time alone
bird hasslin'
i got to hang out with a buddy last night and was deeply distraught when i found out he has been hassled by birds…it seems a new young tuff has set up on his patio and has been breaking his sleep in the mornings
he relayed that another friend suggested he get an app to record the bird call so he could identify it….to which he had frustratedly responded…
of course i’ve used the app before when i’ve been hassled by birds
i had to stop him and inquire into his well being…as i was immediately inundated with images of him walking down the street and a angry flock of birds in gang outfits gathered around him like 1950’s toughs and hassled him for his milk money….it is one of the oldest and whitest things i have ever heard and we laughed a lot as we expounded on that image and bemoaned his fate of being bullied by our feathered friends
image courtesy of Tough bird on the block is a photograph by Dan Friend
why oh why do i miss the zero sum game of the 70’s? it really shaped us in a more hands on way than later gentler decades … still it engenders a nostalgia… 1978: Could You Survive Without Modern Technology? | Connections | BBC Archive
Full EMO
once i was setting up a playlist for the evening and my wife saw me add Bright Eyes and she said
wow i didn’t know this was a suicide party
it still makes me laugh thinking about it….it’s also super helpful to really go full emo sometimes. ogbert the nerd do that in delightful nj spades
Staring out of his upstairs window
Trying to drown out all the screaming to Bright Eyes
Staring out of the passenger window trying to do my best
to find the bright side
Kottke called it
But that is just scratching the surface of this gorgeously designed ode to the walkman cassette form factor. Fall into well at your own risk.
Last few days has found me listening to this band a metric ton.
They are a delightful mix of Dave Smalley (from ALL/Descendants), Samiam, and east coast hardcore, ala Good Clean Fun, to my ears. If any of that is your bag check em out!
#feelslikeheaven #punk #emoAnother fun adventure while in LA was to see James Acaster at the Orpheum. Was an extremely enjoyable evening. Some would even say “clever”. Identity and celebrity is a hell of a thing. #JamesAcaster
The lovely and talented missus not only haggled some vintage MCS components for me, but she also made me a cabinet to put them in. I am truly lucky to have found this lady. #MCS #Woodworking #Analog
Watched: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die 🎬One of my favorite things to do with my daughter, apart from hiking, is watching films. We were split on this one. Me loving almost every moment, gaping plot holes aside. She was a little tired of Sam Rockwell being …well Sam Rockwell.
Watched: Dracula 🎬 EMO Dracula is a fun ride. I recommend, but caution it is over the top and very silly.
Recent trip to LA to visit my daughter. She took me up to Wisdom Tree and we had a lot of fun. I still don’t love LA but she continues to chip away at me. Miss getting on a bus, but also realize that socioeconomics say if you are over a certain age on a bus you are either not doing well or…probably struggling with some mental issues. This seems a shame and a uniquely American issue.
