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Music
Things I will miss when they are finally gone.
1. Incandescent lighting
2. P.O.T.S.
3. Magnetic recording media (cassettes)
4. Internal combustion engines
5. Record stores
Why? Nostalgia mostly. Also, I don’t particularly care for lighting from CFLs, newer forms of telephony are not as reliable, the mix tape will always be the sexiest bit of music, as wasteful as they are there’s just something fantastic about the rumble of a tuned engine, and record stores are just my own personal heaven. But not the megamusic nonsense that’s replaced those I grew up with: Rose Records, Oranges, Flip Side, Tower, and Camelot. Sure, the good ones that are still around are great, but I can never go home again.
Flat Beat – Mr. Oizo
I never tire of this video.
Gravité
Gravité from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre, London
More things that are fun
In no particular order, these things have made me happy recently in one way or another. I encourage you to check them out. Half Acre beer has a store in Chicago where you can buy most excellent beer in good sized bottles or even bigger bottles if you so desire. 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters I just can’t say enough good things about. I’ve just finished up my first order of three bags and recently took delivery on my second three bags. They do not disappoint.
Spencer Product is an old college friend who made it big in the DJ biz. He released a full-length mix CD awhile back that is in constant rotation on my iTunes and released a single in the middle of last year that has some juicy remixes that are fun to blast in the car. Kiehl’s products I discovered at one of their stores out here in Woodfield mall. I’m prone to razor rash and since picking up some of their Facial Fuel wash and scrub, I’ve had very little problem whatsoever. Recommended.
Happy times!
Rewind
I’ve been digging into the cd archives a bit lately, something I do from time to time when I’m feeling nostalgic. I cleaned up a bit this weekend and wound up dusting off the stereo, a sure fire trigger to get me digging in the basement.
Found some Judybats, Bettie Serveert, Sugar, Lush, Hüsker Dü, Dinosaur Jr. and a lot of the music that XRT played when I was growing up—the good stuff. The experience of looking through my music is a bit of a whirlwind and usually fills my head with ideas of how I’m going to organize everything and make digital copies of it that’ll be pumped through the house from a very underutilized bank of servers. Hell I might even be able to get one of my personal web site projects launched once that’s done.