It has begun...

Ok so Jonny freed the record box from its closet prison over the weekend and I am just beginning to look through it this evening. I was super excited thinking of all the 80's music I would recover. Looking through I realized that my collection actually started in the mid seventies before I ever listened to the radio....

I have always been extremely into music and I can remember listening to the Disney records, especially Peter and the Wolf, when we lived in Germany. I think I had them all, the old school ones anyway... You know Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan. I was inside alot as a youngster and they were my company. I don't know what happened to them...I assumed they were given away by my mother to younger children. (Remember records are heavy and moving them is a pain in the ass!)

So lets think back to the seventies and what children would have been exposed to in popular music??? In my home it was mainly what I saw on the limited television available overseas. My fav shows of all time were the Muppet Show, Captain and Tenille, and of course, the Cher Show.

If you remember, the Muppet Show always had a musical guest and my all time favorite was Crystal Gayle! If you don't know she is Loretta Lynn's youngest sister and she had dark hair to her ankles. My parents liked her too as she was on the country charts. I currently have three of her albums that I believe I pilfered from my parents collection. I also have Captain and Tenille's greatest hits including "Love will Keep Us Together" and "Muskrat Love" Thats right you heard!

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L	Luxurious
I	Ideal
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So I had asked Jonny, a long time ago when I was uploading MP3's from the internet, how I could upload my records into the computer, thinking I had alot of old songs on vinyl...

Well at the time there was not an inexpensive way to manage this ourselves. I tried to arrange a time with the DJ friends who had the set up, but never managed to make it convenient enough to do...Records are very heavy!!!!

SO when Urban Outfitters, of all places, came out with a shit-hot (more Englishisms) USB record player..I almost wet my pants! I left the catalog opened and circled...just in case.

I thought fer sure I would get one for xmas and dug out my box of records, which has been kept close throughout my adventures. I went through them all and felt all weird and viceral like I do when I remember the eighties.

Well of course Urban Outfitters sold out of them during gift giving season and I again was glum, longing to hear the obscure mix of music that I collected between the ages of 8 and 18 (I think...when did cassettes take over?)

Well the other day Jonny and I went out to Astroburger on Melrose, one of my favorite LA places for date night, and I convinced him to goto Urban Outfitters after because I wanted those footless tights for skirt wearing. When we got there we had like 10 minutes to shop before they closed. Low and behold there were the USB record players. We just looked at each other and next thing I knew we were getting it. YAY!

Well the ION (fancy high tech looking thing...all silvery and delicious) has been sitting here next to my desk a while, as the box of records got packed in the office closet in the back when we were organizing the house before guests last month and I haven't made the time to dig it out...but now I am inspired and will hopefully begin the amazing process very soon!

Stay tuned!

ok I am blogging serious now

Had a long chat with Julia last night on google chat while she was at work and we talked about blogging. I told her I had blogged a few times on friendster but hadn't kept up with it. She said she had read them and wanted more which of course was the right answer, playing skillfully on my need to to speak my mind continuously... :)

I was concerned that I would be boundariless in my commentary and write something that I could never take back as the words are practically burned into the ethers, once posted on the tinternet (bit of English slang). Jonny reminded me that even if you delete, its still out there and someone could find it if they wanted to...

So I have found a context that I think will produce full-on Liz commentary without getting too heavy...and its all thanks to Jonny who I love dearly!

More to come....