Monday, May 18, 2009

New cool stuff happening all the time. Work is great - I love the business that comes along with the advent of warm weather in Oregon. I get to deal with several different farmers, all of them eccentric and most of them funny as hell, as I put together their supply orders. I make reams of labels for organically grown vegetables and send them off to farms. I eat and sample fruits, vegetables and melons all day long and have a laugh with my friends about every 15 seconds, listen to tons of good and bad music, exchange emails with pictures of vegetables in various states of dying and/or rotting, or "blowing" as we say. I've also been digging my new tape recorder, a vintage JC Penney/Panasonic mono tape deck that really weighs a lot and is so much coole than an ipod. I've been making all kinds of recordings and playing back vintage punk tapes from high school and college. I love the way obsolete technology is so cheap right now and yet well-made and built to last. I'll post some pics and videos soon! Must go on walk now.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Cole,

I totally agree about old/obsolete technology. I used to have an old reel to reel tape deck (an Aiwa, I think). In fact, it might still be out in my shed collecting dust. Hell, I might even have some cool old music on some old reel tapes. I should get that thing back in the house and hook it up to my mid 70's Kenwood receiver and turntable. There's just something cool and organic about the old analog equipment that you can't get anymore.

Later,
Tom

Ed said...

yeah, that and no updating drivers, har har

Anonymous said...

Har har indeed, Mr. Cole,

But honestly don't you think there's something processed and mechanical sounding about the new digital technology that just doesn't work for "real" music. It's perfectly fine for stuff by Kraftwerk or Brian Eno and all the synth heavy sounds coming out of the industry these days but there's nothing like the sound of an old Dylan album or some Howlin' Wolf that just screams to be played on a scratchy old Vinyl record. And of course the good old low tech sounds of punk rock.

Later again,
Tom

Ed said...

I'm riggin' up my Edison coil right now!

justin said...

A sweet life Ed. Good fruit, frequent laughs and music played through old school equipment. I don't have much occasion to use it, but I still have the portable tape deck we used to use to record GW practices. I have to agree with you guys there's something special about the crackle of a needle and tape hiss.