Nat and vinyl

[johan]

No, 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.

Comments

[northern]

Seriously cool about the vinyls. Might take you a while to listen your way through them, eh?

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[jophan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in Jörgen's words: "Of course there is a serious drawback if you still want to buy the records: Your friends won't see you again for the next ten years."

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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[thette.livejournal.com]

You know, that's sort of how I feel about KJ's books.

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[jophan.livejournal.com]

We will be owning more records than books. I still don't know what this does to my self-image! ;-)

[thette.livejournal.com]

You'll do fine. You can always claim to be a book snob. The real question is, what will it do to Nea's professional credibility?

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[jophan.livejournal.com]

Well, since a year Néa is a doctoral student of linguistics and on leave of absence from the library, so it shouldn't matter too much. And the books will have caught up in a year or three at rhe current rate of acquisition.

[thette.livejournal.com]

You know, we were bragging before Christmas about how much free shelf space we had.

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.)

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I feel I should know who this Thette/Thérèse person is. Do I detect a resemblance?

J.

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[jophan.livejournal.com]

Well, I cannot know who you know or do not know in my circle of friends, but I'd be immensely surprised if you knew Therese or had heard of her before. She's no relation of mine or anything, "just" a friend.

But what do I know? Maybe you already know all my friends independently of me? ;-)