The Dino-Aspie Cafe (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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cosmiccat,

Lots of flags, Aspie Girl Gamers Rule, Kid's Crater, Dinos.

I am art and music impaired. Have odd tastes for a human.

I have never owned a TV, radio, phonograph, but have owned an up to date computer since Windows 3.0.

Good with machines/systems, planning, structure. I can recreate the past from scraps that survived two ice ages, find parts to fit machines when no original exist, but humans never made sense to me.

Wrong Planet was the great discovery of my life, but nothing has changed.

A shadow cast by starlight.

.... Roland the Thompson Gunner ....

.... Hasten Down the Wind (sung by Linda Ronsdadt )

.... etc


you're missing out there, but I guess its made up for elsewhere

ooh, POOO!

this is getting frustrating!

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Merle

Thanks, cosmiccat; yep, grew up on a farm in south jersey, we had cows and chickens. I loved the woods and animals; people, not so much. Didn't understand them, couldn't predict what they would do, and their casual cruelties... made no sense to me. What i would have given for the internet back then. [You suggested an anthem - Ayn Rand wrote an anthem...] That was a wonderful escape for me, books. They made sense, and I wasn't alone any more. Whole series: Hardy Boys, Sherlock Holmes and all the James Bond novels before I saw any of the movies. (Discovered: almost always, the book is better.)

Merle, that Pigorian Chant is a hoot. I'd love to hear the polyphony of the chickens. I once heard the Tallas Scholars in a church in Philadelphia: sublime! Enough to believe in a just and loving God. But I was disabused of that notion. Hmm, this brought back a memory - being in the church choir when my voice broke, and I couldn't sing the high notes any more. Devastating. Allegri's Miserere still breaks me down.

Pink Floyd, Warren Zevon! Remember Al Stewart? Jethro Tull! Yes, Genesis, Cream, the blues, jazz...!

Last night the radio played Martha Davis - The Motels - "Total Control".

My 16 y.o. had never heard it before.

I'll have to find it on CD.

Street wet tonight,
lovers touch
It's pure delight
Always certain any moment
Maybe even you

Stay in bed
Stained sheets
My head hurts
I repeat
Maybe you
maybe you maybe even you

And I'd sell my soul for
Total control
Over you

I hope its never covered by a pop band.

turntables ARE making a comeback, even K-mart has one, it's a tuner/turntable combo. it looks pretty crappy but they don't want a lot of money for it. i noticed them in the catalogue of some other electrical stores as well.

Chuck enters, hears a faint rhythmic dragging noise. Walks over to the back of the room - stylus resting on empty spinning turntable. Puts arm back, shuts off machine.

Reverently puts vinyl into slipcovers, then into covers. Classic music returned to sacred shrines on shelves. Puts 8-tracks, tapes, CD's, MP3's back in their respective cases. Smiles at the selections.

Builds a sound booth for future parties. Separately, builds a soundproof meditation room next to the Menstrual Hut for anyone in need. (May as well use this extra energy for something, eh?)

Cleans the place up, sets out paper and drawing materials for today's creativity projects.
Leaves note:

"Welcome newcomers! Have fun today all!"

Goes for morning run, Pink Floyd's "Run" playing in his mind.

Turntables didn't really go anywhere. They have actually improved by an amazing degree in the last few years, although that is probably not true of the ones you find at K-Mart. Vinyl has become the mainstay of the dedicated analog audiophile, because they sound so much better than CDs.
One thing that dropping out of the mainstream has done for us, audionuts is to make it possible to buy lots of old desirable LPs from Goodwill and other secondhand places for a quarter or a dime, each.

I started a turntable thread back in the fall, but it went nowhere. I had just bought and revived an old turntable to play collections of 78s that I had been finding at ridiculous prices like a collection, recorded "Direct To Disk" of Furtwangler, conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (Symphony) Orchestra, in the early fifties, performing most of Beethoven's work, before kings, queens and heads of state, for a buck. That was twelve albums, for a buck, but the historical sigificance of the collection made me drool when I found it. I would have paid LOTS MORE!

Turntables dropped out of mainstream use, right after CDs came out. The push to switch to CDs for daily consumption was done by the recording industry leaders, making promises that CDs would offer "Perfect Sound, Forever". They lied! CDs have only begun to sound acceptable to a person with an audio "savvy" set of ears, in the last decade. Even with very high dollar equipment, CD sound was usually tinny, weak, overcrispy, and fatiguing to the listener in the early years. The public had a sense that the CD would last forever and they knew that records got scratched. The switch was easy for most people, because they don't really listen to music, anyway. They just put it on as background noise for their lives and go about whatever else they were doing. The convenience is impossible to beat.

... at least it was impossible to beat, until, they made decent sound cards and related devices for computers. Now most of my collection is on hard drive and I play music straight off my computer at high resolution, most of the time. Convenience is having your whole music collection searchable, taggable, and available at the click of a mouse. I still use my turntable for "Active Listening", but the computer is fine for background music.

I did this as well. CDs annoy me.

*waves at Chuck, thinking he may be an interesting character, even if he is obsessed with neatness*

I used to live in a rented log cabin, on Old Hickory Lake, in Hendersonville for about five years, back when I still had dreams of a music career. Worked in several studios and traveled with many bands on tour as a sound tech.

I kind of like Chuck. His A/R habits remind me of my husband. It makes me feel more calm. I want my Pink Floyd blaring though.

Mulls over A/R. Airdale Retreiver? Alternative Rhododendron? ah. . Anal Retentive, I got it.

you know, we might need a little glossary for all the alphabet soup we use here, I have thought of it before.

but Chuck is not the only one that tidies up here at the Cafe and Pub. Lau used to take a turn and I remember distinctly using the john in the far corner.

Merle

Anal Retentive which resides somewhere this side of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

I dunno, Merle. I rather liked Airdale Retriever habits. Airdales have highly particular sensibilities...mischievous, too. Rather sounds like Chuck.

DD

I saw The Animals live at the Ram-Jam club in Brixton, London. Club was almost black-only. I was a member. I'm Caucasian, through and through, so far as I know. My, aren't I just the show-off.

I find it interesting that no one here has risen to the challenge... of saying anything positive about today's progressive music.

While I feel that all the more popular (played on radio) stuff is... pointless.

I thought about what word I wanted there. Started with "meaningless", but a lot of what I like is exactly that. "Pointless" fits my thought better, I think. "Derivative" would be apt, too. "Tedious". "Predicatable" (I sing along to things I have NEVER heard before).

Anyway, here I am on repeat with techno - music to stim to. With word pictures: "I've seen a lot of women in my life, and you know something, you gotta to be the ugliest one I've ever laid eyes on.", "Surrender at once.", "Nothing means anything to me.", "I can feel my head exploding...", etc.

Followed by a bit of trance (styled with "the X Files" theme).

Does no one other than me like anything post 60's? Does no one else dance? Have you all died?



Another track... "Xev... are you trying to seduce me?". Beat at 7 cps? Maybe more. "I'm getting desperate". "I've been waiting for this for thousands of years.".

I'm not sure how to break this to you, Merle, but there isn't a john in here.



(I have to admit, I did wonder what I was mopping up the other day.)

(Leika: "I would never eat Kai, because Kai is dead.")