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Nat and vinyl
Feb. 1st, 2004 12:35 pmNo, 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.
