I love brushing the dust off the vinyl, wiping it with that special microfiber cloth, blowing it, placing it on the disc and dropping that needle...pure bliss! 🌞🌞🌞
This is such a fraught moment in history. The media of it all, but also the veering-toward-apocalypse weather events.
I guess you could also bring up live music (altho to some extent that was covered in your last post). And one of the 3 is a public (third, or community) space — live music would be that, as well.
But I am finding it sad that there are only 3 (maybe 4) types of tangible media.
And as you note, these are older kinds of tech and bring with them nostalgia for older folks.
Indeed: live music, magazines and zines, newspapers - terrestrial radio - which I listen to in the barn. I do think that the community aspect of some of these is important. The isolation and the loneliness. I remember even just going and hanging out at the video store too in order to get a movie, or at the record store- to get the actual concert tickets. There were a lot more experiences and interactions with people in those times. Is it the answer? I don’t know. But I do think the community is needed and the authentic.
I love brushing the dust off the vinyl, wiping it with that special microfiber cloth, blowing it, placing it on the disc and dropping that needle...pure bliss! 🌞🌞🌞
Great piece!
Thank you! And I agree!
This is such a fraught moment in history. The media of it all, but also the veering-toward-apocalypse weather events.
I guess you could also bring up live music (altho to some extent that was covered in your last post). And one of the 3 is a public (third, or community) space — live music would be that, as well.
But I am finding it sad that there are only 3 (maybe 4) types of tangible media.
And as you note, these are older kinds of tech and bring with them nostalgia for older folks.
Are we going backward? Is that what’s needed?
Indeed: live music, magazines and zines, newspapers - terrestrial radio - which I listen to in the barn. I do think that the community aspect of some of these is important. The isolation and the loneliness. I remember even just going and hanging out at the video store too in order to get a movie, or at the record store- to get the actual concert tickets. There were a lot more experiences and interactions with people in those times. Is it the answer? I don’t know. But I do think the community is needed and the authentic.