Nat and vinyl
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johanNo, the two are not related.
Nea's buddy Nat is here on a visit. She's an Englishwoman currently living in Istanbul, where she teaches Turks English. However, she felt she needed a break from that and where to go if not someplace with lots of snow? We've been playing Cheapass games (Kill Dr. Lucky, Save Dr. Lucky, US Patent No. 1, and Deadwood), we've been to an Indian restaurant (few of those in Istanbul apparently) and stuffed ourselves and we've been tobogganing. Loads of fun! Today we're going to Néa's parents' place for dinner to celebrate Néa's dad who turned 75 last week.
Vinyl, yes. Yesterday Jörgen Peterzén posted a message on the Sverifandom list announcing that the widow of a friend of his wants to sell about 5,000 vinyl records, most of them in near mint condition, music representing the whole repertoire of the Western culture except for rock and pop: Renaissance, baroque, classicism, romanticism, 20th century, Frank Sinatra, Monica Zetterlund, jazz. Everything from Palestrina to modern composers like Kagel and Kokkonen; cantatas, masses, oratories, operas, operettes, symphonies, concertos, chamber music etc etc. The price? SEK 1 per record. (That's about 14 US cents or 11 euro cents or 7 pence each.)
Of course we couldn't resist. They have tried to sell the records to second hand booksellers, but nobody wanted them. Classical music on vinyl is impossible to sell. So all we need to do now is to rent a van and shanghai a friend to drive and go down to Jordbro and fetch them. The mind boggles.
Nea's buddy Nat is here on a visit. She's an Englishwoman currently living in Istanbul, where she teaches Turks English. However, she felt she needed a break from that and where to go if not someplace with lots of snow? We've been playing Cheapass games (Kill Dr. Lucky, Save Dr. Lucky, US Patent No. 1, and Deadwood), we've been to an Indian restaurant (few of those in Istanbul apparently) and stuffed ourselves and we've been tobogganing. Loads of fun! Today we're going to Néa's parents' place for dinner to celebrate Néa's dad who turned 75 last week.
Vinyl, yes. Yesterday Jörgen Peterzén posted a message on the Sverifandom list announcing that the widow of a friend of his wants to sell about 5,000 vinyl records, most of them in near mint condition, music representing the whole repertoire of the Western culture except for rock and pop: Renaissance, baroque, classicism, romanticism, 20th century, Frank Sinatra, Monica Zetterlund, jazz. Everything from Palestrina to modern composers like Kagel and Kokkonen; cantatas, masses, oratories, operas, operettes, symphonies, concertos, chamber music etc etc. The price? SEK 1 per record. (That's about 14 US cents or 11 euro cents or 7 pence each.)
Of course we couldn't resist. They have tried to sell the records to second hand booksellers, but nobody wanted them. Classical music on vinyl is impossible to sell. So all we need to do now is to rent a van and shanghai a friend to drive and go down to Jordbro and fetch them. The mind boggles.
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Date: 2004-02-01 04:25 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-01 04:38 am (UTC)I'm imagining something more on the lines of going out into the garage (where we'll be putting the records, we don't have - or rather don't want to make - room for them in the house) and look through them, saying to ourselves "let's have a Händel weekend" and then bring in the 25 Händel recordings...
5,000 records. That's about ten times as much as I'd ever imagined I might have. I guess we might want to give some of hem away, but I don't know. It will take us a while just to leaf through them all to see what there is.
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Date: 2004-02-01 11:02 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-01 12:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-01 12:31 pm (UTC)Some day next week, KJ will go get more Ivars. (There is space in my shelf, but I prefer to save that for my non-fiction and my binders, and there will be much of that.)
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Date: 2004-02-01 10:19 pm (UTC)J.
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Date: 2004-02-01 11:44 pm (UTC)But what do I know? Maybe you already know all my friends independently of me? ;-)
Wow ...
Date: 2004-02-01 06:48 am (UTC)Carter
Re: Wow ...
Date: 2004-02-01 12:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-01 10:17 pm (UTC)Jay