some music must be played loudly for the full effect

currently listening to sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band on mini-me's new turntable. that's right -- turntable. we went from records to 8-tracks to cassettes to cds to mp3s to itunes, and we have reverted to vinyl around here, and that reversion has translated to my old man's vinyl b/c all my vinyl has apparently gone missing.

[i am not including a pic of the sgt pepper's album, so don't let this throw you off as to the illustrations which are so generously provided by me.]

for some reason, the one i miss the most is supertramp's breakfast in america. take the long way home.... [your opinion about my musical tastes does not count.] everything dan fogelberg, james taylor, billy joel ever recorded -- all of it i had. also, the complete works of barry manilow and some air supply. [again, do not care what you think about my musical tastes.] also, there were some really good john denver albums. jackson browne's hold out is still in the stack, and reo speedwagon's high infidelity is there. but, the eagles desperado is not. that's the album with doolin dalton on it. ah, that was some good stuff. [this is me, not caring what you say.]

the first album i owned was a monkees album. [did i mention that i do not care for your opinion?] i played that thing to shreds. i did not actually have a stereo -- it was basically a record player with stereophonic sound. i scrimped & saved and got daddy to pick it up for me at zayre. i am betting you do not remember zayre either.


zayre had these pay fone banks in the lobby -- of course, there used to be pay fones everyfreakinwhere. anyways, we'd always check these phones for spare change, and one day, one of them was loaded up with like quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies. that's right, pennies. someone had obviously loaded it up for someone to find b/c pay fones do not operate on pennies. score! yeah, that was a good day.