LynneSin primitive starts blogging

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018272481

Oh my.

LynneSin (89,757 posts)   Fri Jan 4, 2013, 09:26 PM

BTW I started a blog. It's a week old now

Still just the basics. Learning about all the neato stuff I could do. I'm finally going to listen to all the albums in my collection (1447 total) and then post about them on my blog along with really banal musings about stuff you probably didn't really care about but read about anyways since you dared to click on my blog link.
 
I need to do at least 2-3 albums per day but right now it's about 1 per day. But holidays have kept me busy. Today's album was "Singles Going Steady" from the Buzzcocks - YUMMY!!!!
 
http://lynnesin2013.blogspot.com/

That's the link. I welcome comments but if they are rude I will have them removed. Kids read my blog and interestingly enough 2 people from Germany. Not sure why I'm so big in Germany.
 
The link is in my signature too.

The deal is, the LynneSin primitive's "big" everywhere--big in Germany, big in Delaware, where she takes up half the space of that tiny state.  She'd be big in Nebraska too.

She's just a big woman, no matter how many ways one slices it.

[GOBUCKS]

I'm finally going to listen to all the albums in my collection (1447 total) and then post about them on my blog along with really banal musings

She could be a star contributor to East County Magazine or Truthout.

[franksolich]

Well, I'm kind of disappointed.

I was hoping the LynneSin primitive was going to discuss record albums--you know, those old 33.3 rpm plastic discs--but apparently she's discussing iPods, which makes the subject even more esoteric to me.

Too bad for franksolich.

Anyway, there was this there:

I could have spent the rest of my life using that Ipod.  Until the unfortunately Pineapple Incident of 2005.  Let me tell you this - Pineapple Juice and Ipods to not mix well together.  I was enjoying some fresh cut Pineapple from the Farmers market when I accident knocked over the tub and the juice ran all over my iphone and crappy Nokea cell phone.  Fortunately my contract was done with Nokea so I just got a new crappier cell phone (hadn't yet graduated to Iphones).  But what to do about my beloved Ipod Classic which solved my problem of how to carry all my music with me.  Well luckily a co-worker had a friend who was unloading his Ipod Classic 160g for the dirt-cheap price of $150.  I grabbed that one in a heartbeat since normally they go for alot more than that.  Then as luck has it another co-worker actually offered $75 for my old Ipod.  It seems that the Ipod could still hold a charge when plugged into a wall charger and I think he just wanted the music that was on it.  But I sold it to him and would you believe he got that thing working again.

[GOBUCKS]

I'm sure she didn't pay for all that crappy music.

She downloaded from BearShare, like I did.

Or from the eighth wonder of the technical world, never to be seen again, the original lightning-fast Napster.

[franksolich]

Now, don't anybody laugh, because really, it's pathetic.

franksolich, who of course is deaf, owns some record albums.

They're all very old and decrepit, and I imagine considerably scratched and worn, but I wouldn't know that, while of course hearing people would grimace upon hearing them.

In the mid-1980s, a friend of mine who was member of a band, following some suggestions of a professional audiologist, jerry-built some sort of contraption--it looks like a 1930s refrigerator with legs--and with the help of special headsets that actually work on various parts of the body, utilizes bone-conduction to transfer sound.

This friend's real big into the old Popular Mechanics culture.

It's the damnedest thing, and difficult to use, which is why I use it maybe three times a year.

Some time before that, professional audiologists had picked up that franksolich was "most sympathetic" to the tone and tenor, in vocal music, of Cat Stevens and the guy who was the drummer for Queen (I forget the name).  I can't say I admire their politics, but I can at least "hear" them (please notice the quotation marks).

And hence part of franksolich's record collection:

I wish I could say I was more well-rounded in music than that, but one takes what one can get

[Chris_]

Roger Taylor.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdDNFJpil50[/youtube]

[franksolich]

Roger Taylor.

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I knew his first name was "Roger," but I forgot the rest.

That album was destroyed long ago.

Being foreign objects to me, I'm not as careful with plastic LPs as hearing people are; as long as it rotates the proper direction and some sort of sound comes from it, I'm happy, because that's all I'm going to get anyway.

[Chris_]

Taylor was probably more of the musically astute members of the band.  Much like Phil Lesh as the bassist for the Grateful Dead, he was one of those people who are naturally gifted with an ear for tone.

Jerry Garcia, on the other hand, was a professional amateur constantly striking off-key notes and throwing everyone else off key.  Some of their more popular songs are along the same vein as Queen.

[franksolich]

Roger Taylor.

Oddly, "I'm In Love With My Car" is the only name of a song I recall; I had two Queen albums.

[Chris_]

I would be interested to know how you would feel attending a rock concert will full amplification... the kind that destroys eardrums and leaves you with a ringing head for 24 hours.  I mentioned it to you before but you shrugged it off as 'I don't like to be around large groups of people', but a large rock concert with stacks of speakers might be something you would enjoy.

The best place to be is next to the sound board.  At least that way, you would know where you were and wouldn't get lost in a crowd of people.

I've had various home entertainment systems and done right, you can feel every bit of music that comes through the speakers.  My favorite was a 200-watt setup with a pair of 12-inch speakers.  Aligned correctly, there is a three-dimensional effect to the music that you can feel instead of hear.

[franksolich]

I would be interested to know how you would feel attending a rock concert will full amplification... the kind that destroys eardrums and leaves you with a ringing head for 24 hours.  I mentioned it to you before but you shrugged it off as 'I don't like to be around large groups of people', but a large rock concert with stacks of speakers might be something you would enjoy. 

I've had various home entertainment systems and done right, you can feel every bit of music that comes through the speakers.  My favorite was a 200-watt setup with a pair of 12-inch speakers.  Aligned correctly, there is a three-dimensional effect to the music that you can feel instead of hear.

I doubt I'd enjoy it, because to me, "noise" is more than just sound; it's also light, color, movement.

Which is why I never had an interior rear-view mirror in any car I've ever owned; the sudden impact of bright light apparently affects me in the same way a sudden loud and unexpected noise affects hearing people; it's a nuisance and I don't want to deal with it.

I've been to concerts before, always as a chaperone for any of the nephews when they were younger, and their parents nervous about them going without an adult.  For some reason, they thought I was an ideal escort, and I was happy to do it, but never got anything out of it, other than cranial confusion because of all the lights, color, and action.

The boldened comment of yours, yes, absolutely.