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  1. 18 hours ago, MicroMara said:

    I´m too tired to spin a record , worked the whole day with a highpressure cleaner .

     

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    Don't you love spring!? Here the same: been working in the garden everyday for about an hour. Weather forecast says we won't get temperatures above 20 degrees Celsius before May first. I love it that way, as long as the sun is shining, of course! 

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    No idle moments here... Except when I'm spinning Grant Green's Idle Moment! 

     

     

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  2. We've enjoyed three days of glorious spring here. Blue sky, some garden work, bird cage outside, opening the the 'porte fenetre' as if it were summer, so I can hear my Heresies while enjoying a cup of coffee outside. 

    (weather forecast says from tomorrow onwards rain and showers...) 

    My dog likes the music too! 

     

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  3. 10 hours ago, Dave1291 said:

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    The House of Mugs in Collettsville, NC.   Lookie what I found @Tarheel!  Next time you get that bubble out and you're looking for a road trip?  I got ya hooked right up!  :)

     

    Half the time of my day I spend 'Now, where did I leave my mug?' looking for it. Well, I don't mind as long as there's good music blasting through my Klipsch speakers! 

    Note: no speaker veneer was damaged during the taking of this picture! 

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  4. No names, but some individuals in this thread were pushing and stalking me to buy some Grant Green albums... So today they were delivered from Blue Note France. 

    This is my first acquisition from the Tone Poet series: extra heavy cardboard sleeve with extra pics inside, special anti static polyester jacket, excellent sound quality. Weird, but side A was not in mint condition. It seemed like it had been on a turntable and wiped clean with some fluid. But it sounds okay and there are no scratches, so I will keep it. 

    Also a BILL Frisell cd and another Grant Green vinyl album, Idle Moments, were included in the order. 

     

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  5. On 3/29/2023 at 11:31 PM, MicroMara said:

    Well.....more than 1000 pages right now , seems to be a good thread, congrats @Full Range ( Paul )

     

    Hello friends, no I'm not well, I'm going through a burn out for weeks, am completely without motivation, everything is too stressful, no music, no movies, no technology, no audio cable production , no online audio communities,  I have to leave the house every day , can´t stand it there at the moment , prefer to travell around by car for cities sightseeing cultural things that distract me .

     

    The house , the property , the wife ,everything sucks . Would love to file for divorce, sell everything, move to another country. There are too many questions at the moment - no answers . I have to think, make decisions, even professionally possibly start something new, until retirement it is still 7 years to go.  Never ever expected such a difficult early 61 age start ......

     

     

     

    Everything is relative: in France they go in retirement at 62 (oh, no, now it is 64, thank you Macron)!

     

    In a weird way, this post is good: it means you are reaching out, and you know what? We're happy to have you here!

     

    I've been through a tough month and a half myself (kidney stone with complications), and I've been through some moments of extreme physical discomfort, which I have been sharing here too (not all of it!), but I know that burn out, mental distress, whatever you call it, is arguably even worse a burden that some people don't understand ('You look fine to me! Go outside, catch some air!')

     

    Mental distress is your mind-body signaling to you that something in your life is askew and needs looking at and dealing with. The challenge is to pinpoint where exactly the problem lies: it could be a chemical disbalance in your brain due to lack of vitamin D ;-) or it could be deeprooted marital problem that now comes to the surface. Sometimes you look in the wrong place. You'll need time to figure that one out. Don't judge yourself, don't judge others involved, but investigate in a state of neutrality, mildness and forgiveness to the people involved, yourself included of course.

     

     

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  6. 5 hours ago, Mikekid said:

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    "A friend in college got A WRX when they first came to the US in 2002.

    It was a fun car but the stock tires left a lot to be desired in the handling department."

    We purchased a brand new 2004 wrx off the truck and still drive it daily. She looks gorgeous in it still, but my old white hairy arse sitting inside it just doesn't look right in this anymore somehow. 🤔 I look like her gramps. It is black and still in amazing condition. Fantastic for living (most of our lives) in mountains and snow. We purchased when we were still in our 30's.  My four wheel drive pick up not nearly as capable in snow and ice. Young folks constantly walking up asking to sell to them. Anyway, It's been the best/dependable rig we've ever owned. Wife loves this car a LOT.  edit:  I'll take a pic and add it once we get the snow/road grime cleaned up. Very proud of the condition of her car.

     

    edit: Finally cleaned up the car. Now comes the rain and snow again of course. Perfect rig for dodging deer, elk etc etc.   ignore the deer pile in the gravel there.... it's everywhere.  Have a great evening~

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    How many miles are on the meter?

    When I met my wife in 2000 she was 23 en driving a Subaru like this (though not a WRX), with a 2000cc engine and consuming lots of fuel, and she was paying two grands per year for insurance (which is obligatory in Belgium). She had 'inherited' the car from her brother.

    Very sexy car indeed, but she couldn't afford it, being a student, so she did it away... 

    I guess she should have kept it...

     

     

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  7. This page reads like a fairy tale!

     

    Long, long have I bewailed the sev'rance of our loves,
    With tears that from my lids streamed down like burning rain
    And vowed that, if the days deign reunite us two,
    My lips should never speak of severance again:
    Joy hath o'erwhelmed me so that,
    for the very stress Of that which gladdens me to weeping I am fain.
    Tears are become to you a habit, O my eyes,
    So that ye weep as well for gladness as for pain.

     

     

     

     

    A 'bluesy' 14th century poem from One Thousand and One Nights

     

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  8. I'm listening to Charles Mingus' The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

    It is extremely impressive! Mingus is first and foremost a composer, and man, there is just one name that comes to mind that is close to what he does, and it is Leonard Bernstein (with West Side Story), but Mingus is much more personal and extravagant (avantgarde /  non-commercial). Most of you will know Ah Um, which is a collection of great, separate songs. The black saint and the Sinner Lady is a jazz opera, nothing less...

     

     

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  9. On 3/26/2023 at 4:19 AM, Full Range said:

    I’m still in beautiful jazz mode 

    This time the guitar as the lead instrument, and masterfully played 

     

    Mastered and cut from the original stereo master tapes. Features a laminated gatefold sleeve with original session photos. Limited to 2500 copies. 

    Originally released 1964 on Blue Note Records. © 1964 Blue Note Records. Distributed by Music Matters Ltd. Manufactured by Universal Music Enterprises, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
     

    Artist - Grant Green

    Title - Idle Moments

     

    Album ID - https://www.discogs.com/release/4773442-John-Coltrane-A-Love-Supreme

     

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    Well, Blue Note France is my buddy now...

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  10. I have decided to hit back to Facebook's sponsored messages. Let's see what happens next... 

     

    Here is one for Yamaha's YH5000SE headphone. 

    He's thinking: "Maybe I should have bought a small car with that money... Or a speedpedelec... Or maybe I could have cured one thousand malaria patients in Africa. Damn!"

     

     

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  11. Medical update from the ER: I'm tubed down under... I prefer audio tubes... No doubt! 

    There 's a bizarre parallel between the medical and audiophile world: vinyl, tubes, needles...

    I' m bored... I want my music! 

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  12. 1 hour ago, GWSmith said:

    Continuing my morning vinyl Jazz journey.....this is really good too !  From a re-release on the Jazzland label.  Front artwork...IMG-2684.jpg

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    I have this one on CD! 

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