pacing the sun in the ole squareback takes a small amount of faith. But it doesn’t hurt to have the mono blaster singing sweetly with the Twisted Teens - When we first met.
Kohl’s is really going hard with a orange velour skull front and center, but Target is absolutely wil’in out with a whole ass section for female incontinence. (no corresponding male section….f’n patriarchy in action.)
Middle age, middle class, white man evening shopping. I know what you want.
Surprising to no one I really enjoy Mat over at www.youtube.com/@Techmoan
He has a new video about his personal stereo dropping wide soon. I went out and picked up boombox i had many moons ago as well.
A JVC PC-X100. It still sounds amazing and at $20 who can argue?
New Music < to me > Saturday
Stuff tickling my ears…
Sweeping Promises - Shooting Shadows
FeldUp - Cover My Ears
Twisted Teens - When We First Met
Persica 3 - That Life
In the early 1920’s we spent over 5 hours a day Cooking, Cleaning, Eating, or with Friends.
-in minutes -
- Cooking ~75.72
- Cleaning ~98.57
- Eating ~70.72
- Friends ~ 62.15
Vs ~ 2 hrs in2026
- Cooking ~39.17
- Cleaning ~32.92
- Eating ~42.08
- Friends ~10
Via Data is Beautiful via Born in Space
Went down to see the Stonehenge replica monument in Maryhill. Samuel Hill, working from the interpretation that the original Stonehenge was used to sacrifice humans to the god of war, thought it a fitting tribute to those killed in WWI. We still seem to be sacrificing to the gods of war.
Having a lovely discussion about music yesterday and was reminded of Killing an Arab and by extension Camus’ The Stranger. Worth a revisit. The only meaning to being human is to be…HUMAN. The rest of the nonsense is window dressing. Be kind and be you.
More fun finds added to the collection this weekend. A funky weird Chet Baker - You can’t go home again. A thoroughly enjoyable Astor Piazolla - Libertango
#vinyl
Went to breakfast at the Buttered Biscuit. They had some extra ordinary bread-y products. They were too big even for me or Talky Toaster.
Drove 3 hours, spent $30 on an old door, stripped it repaired it and back in use in the house. New one from a box store start at $150-$200. Time well spent and looks nicer with sturdy hinges that are $30 alone for less robust modern version.
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
