I was just remembering going through my dad's old CDs from the 80s and loving the page of instructions on how to use and care for a CD, including a warning that it will only work in a CD player, NOT a record player.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
I'm taking a long lunch and listening to Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery followed by Flamagra and I think I might be floating off into some kind of psychedelic cosmic realm guys help
A year ago, Stereolab were a weird blank spot in my 90s musical knowledge (like, I have no idea how I hadn't gotten into them before). Now I'm dropping all sorts of money on pre-orders of all their stuff.
Writing a novel set in the nearish future, and one character is writing her PhD thesis analyzing music from the first couple of decades of the 2000s. Its title? "The Sharp Sound of Dull Math: Independent Music and the Rise of the Monogenre, 1999-2019)."
10-year-old daughter having a sleepover birthday party in the living room tonight = no turntable time for me today. I think I'll survive, but it's gonna be close.