random . . . randomness

There's a spaz-man waiting in the NW
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
Old wrote:
There's a spaz-man waiting in the NW
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
Oh, Bravo.
Anyone else going to the Doobie Brothers show tonight at Nissan?
Did anyone have 'Godzilla dust cloud' on their 2020 Apocolypse Bingo card?
Are you cooped up at home post surgery?

I hope it went well and you heal fast..
hutch wrote:
Are you cooped up at home post surgery?

hanging in there, kinda sore today
Although the Cooping nom de plume is from a rabbit hole I went down on…you guessed voter fraud and Batimorian Edgar Allen Poe
hutch wrote:
walkman 37 years young today…


40th anniversary of Walkman going on sale in US …I feel a bit wistful


The Walkman has quite an impact in the 80s but no it didn’t own the 80s

I remember that’s how I found out about the challenger explosion in science class…

I remember taking music to school and sharing with friends (“eat it” by weird al…)

Of course for the last two years of high school the Walkman made the trip back and forth from home actually fun

hutch wrote:
40th anniversary of Walkman going on sale in US …I feel a bit wistful
I just want to state for the record how offended I am by this post. The idea that walky, and by extension gay men as a whole, were “for sale” or promiscuous as children is wildly offensive. For someone who purports to be so woke, these sort of tired homophobic slurs are alarming, Hutch.
Oh shit


(I am definitely not “woke”)
hutch wrote:
hutch wrote:
walkman 37 years young today…


40th anniversary of Walkman going on sale in US …I feel a bit wistful


The Walkman has quite an impact in the 80s but no it didn’t own the 80s

I remember that’s how I found out about the challenger explosion in science class…

I remember taking music to school and sharing with friends (“eat it” by weird al…)

Of course for the last two years of high school the Walkman made the trip back and forth from home actually fun




The Walkman killed vinyl, not CDs.
I still like my Walkman..

But yeah that’s a known fact

I remember in the 80s joining those clubs where you got 12 tapes for a cent

I was actually all about cassettes until 1991 or so..a late adopter..the CDs were expensive..and I was still sometimes buying tapes until 1995…I remember getting wowed zowee on tape…

And of course mix tapes..I was listening to tapes until at least 1998..you would trade for say unreleased belle and Sebastian…I remember that’s how I first got tigermilk

And I had a high end Walkman I was toting around…it was so cool looking!

I feel like 1991 was still fairy early on the CD curve. My parents got a CD player when I was 6 (1989) and their friends were like “oh, I’ve heard of these but never seen one.” Could just be where we lived though.
The fact that you were 6 in 1989, makes me want to think about old versus young. You don't full6 understand the struggle of record, into cassette, into cd, into digital, into record again.
WalkOnBack wrote:
The fact that you were 6 in 1989, makes me want to think about old versus young. You don't full6 understand the struggle of record, into cassette, into cd, into digital, into record again.
I mean, other than the initial record into cassette phase, yeah I remember all that.

Who can firsthand testify about that scandalous 78 to 45 transition?
Julian, wrote:
WalkOnBack wrote:
The fact that you were 6 in 1989, makes me want to think about old versus young. You don't full6 understand the struggle of record, into cassette, into cd, into digital, into record again.
I mean, other than the initial record into cassette phase, yeah I remember all that.

Who can firsthand testify about that scandalous 78 to 45 transition?


Bagley?  ;)
challenged wrote:
Julian, wrote:
WalkOnBack wrote:
The fact that you were 6 in 1989, makes me want to think about old versus young. You don't full6 understand the struggle of record, into cassette, into cd, into digital, into record again.
I mean, other than the initial record into cassette phase, yeah I remember all that.

Who can firsthand testify about that scandalous 78 to 45 transition?


Bagley?  ;)


Mind blower

btw,  my first Victrola came equipped with steel replacement styli
Bagley wrote:
challenged wrote:
Julian, wrote:
WalkOnBack wrote:
The fact that you were 6 in 1989, makes me want to think about old versus young. You don't full6 understand the struggle of record, into cassette, into cd, into digital, into record again.
I mean, other than the initial record into cassette phase, yeah I remember all that.

Who can firsthand testify about that scandalous 78 to 45 transition?


Bagley?  ;)


Mind blower

btw,  my first Victrola came equipped with steel replacement styli


that OG Victrola must've been sweeet!



The remake of Mr. & Mrs. Smith looks dreadful.
Lobster-hatch wrote:

The remake of Mr. & Mrs. Smith looks dreadful.
“Officer, I would like to report an armed hamburglary in progress…”