hot damn!

or how my head phone extension kicks ass

so after months of trying {see previous post here} i have finally been able to complete my hi-fi set up. im currently sitting on my couch, enjoying a cup of coffee, while listening to 88.1 on my headphones straight out of the quarter inch jack on the front of my sweet new receiver.

it's a early to mid 70's SONY model with everything i needed. I have it set up on the ground undernearth my mid 50's ZENITH mahogany console, with all the speakers and the turntable wired to it and out of site. with my handy headphones extension that i picked up today i can easily travel to the very ends of the living room, over 20ft of private listening pleasure. i love it.

lets all get together and bitch about needles

so after basking in the glory of my predawn work on this set-up, i placed the first disk on the deck to enjoy the moment. 'girl from the north country' from dylan's 'nashville skyline' came through the two 12's and six tweeters crystal clear. i was luxuriating in the sound. i poured myself a shit faced #7 {good morning! remember 'don't look back' drew?} and slumbered my sleepy way out to my chair on the front stoop. there i listend, smoked and enjoyed my 'coffee' as bobZ worked his way through side one. it was everything i have been waiting for. then i listened to side two, then i put on a rory gallagher album i picked up at lovells for .99 cents the other day. then, disaster struck

my needle got all wobbly and started skating across any vinyl i sat down on the deck. curses flowed from my mouth, along with some bile, and spittle. it was not pretty. the lack of the turntable is why i am listening to jazz right now via the radio, instead of one of the myriad of lp's i have picked up over the last couple of months in anticipation of this day. need i mention the late fifties, japanese atlantic import ray charles album i picked up at amoeba? or 150 45's i have sitting in my office! so close, far away.

on jazz

right here seems like a great place to post something on the monumental genre that is jazz. that intention listed; i need jazz/samba on vinyl, and i would really like to have it's younger brother getz/gilberto as well. time to save up my tips from starbucks. anyway i should drink some more coffee now, and get going to bed. i'm driving amanda to work in the morning, so i'll be getting up at 5am. time to get along.