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I started writing a post earlier about some thoughts related to mental health, dating, and feeling kind of down. I wanted to find some dates (calendar, not relationship-type) to reference and went back through old LJ posts. While I was doing that, the paragraph and a half I'd written disappeared on me, so I decided to just come back to the whole thing later.
I did confirm, as Danae and I had thought, that this past weekend was right around the six year anniversary of our having met. Once she's feeling better, we'll have a nice dinner somewhere to celebrate. The exact date has never been critical anyway. We met at a convention, and I kind of mark time by when that event happens, which isn't always on the same date.
Today had good things and bad things. While feeling down, I ate most of a red velvet cheesecakse. That fits into both categories. I had some nice time on the couch with Danae playing a video game. I installed the new front fender on my bike, but I think I cut the stays too short and it's mounted kind of oddly and I'm not sure how to resolve the issue. I might start over again and see if I can get a new set of stays.
I digitized a couple of Lisa's LPs; two albums by the Manhattan Transfer. Some of her music is stuff that I'm unlikely to have listened to otherwise and found that I really enjoyed. This, not so much. The cultural context is interesting, certainly. It's very strange to me to hear an upbeat vocal jazz song about doing cocaine. As Danae pointed out, this genre was edgy and even scandalous in its time, so it makes sense that edge topics would appear in it. I'm fascinated, in concept, by what different kinds of music mean to those who make and listen to it. But I could never be an ethnomusicologist; there's a lot of stuff that, for me, actually listening to is simply dull. (Now art, on the other hand, I could get lost in for days, learning about its history and meanings and interpretrations.)
Anyway, the MP3s sound pretty good. I have a decent workflow set up too. I record each side to a project in Audacity. In there, I run a noise filter (sampling noise from the lead-in groove on the record) and a click filter on the whole side. Then I export each track as a seperate 320kbps MP3. Using my old table, I occasionally got some kind of feedback or oscillation in the waveform triggered once in a while by high frequency noises. Maybe something was loose in the tonearm? I never figured it out. It wasn't major, but I noticed it. That has not been an issue with the Realistic table, so that makes me happy. I'm not going to go back and re-record the other stuff, but I'm glad future stuff will be that little bit better. Eventually I'll digitize my own stuff too. Not that I have a lot of it.
Up for digitizing tomorrow is some Billy Joel, who I have to admit, I also know very little about.
I did confirm, as Danae and I had thought, that this past weekend was right around the six year anniversary of our having met. Once she's feeling better, we'll have a nice dinner somewhere to celebrate. The exact date has never been critical anyway. We met at a convention, and I kind of mark time by when that event happens, which isn't always on the same date.
Today had good things and bad things. While feeling down, I ate most of a red velvet cheesecakse. That fits into both categories. I had some nice time on the couch with Danae playing a video game. I installed the new front fender on my bike, but I think I cut the stays too short and it's mounted kind of oddly and I'm not sure how to resolve the issue. I might start over again and see if I can get a new set of stays.
I digitized a couple of Lisa's LPs; two albums by the Manhattan Transfer. Some of her music is stuff that I'm unlikely to have listened to otherwise and found that I really enjoyed. This, not so much. The cultural context is interesting, certainly. It's very strange to me to hear an upbeat vocal jazz song about doing cocaine. As Danae pointed out, this genre was edgy and even scandalous in its time, so it makes sense that edge topics would appear in it. I'm fascinated, in concept, by what different kinds of music mean to those who make and listen to it. But I could never be an ethnomusicologist; there's a lot of stuff that, for me, actually listening to is simply dull. (Now art, on the other hand, I could get lost in for days, learning about its history and meanings and interpretrations.)
Anyway, the MP3s sound pretty good. I have a decent workflow set up too. I record each side to a project in Audacity. In there, I run a noise filter (sampling noise from the lead-in groove on the record) and a click filter on the whole side. Then I export each track as a seperate 320kbps MP3. Using my old table, I occasionally got some kind of feedback or oscillation in the waveform triggered once in a while by high frequency noises. Maybe something was loose in the tonearm? I never figured it out. It wasn't major, but I noticed it. That has not been an issue with the Realistic table, so that makes me happy. I'm not going to go back and re-record the other stuff, but I'm glad future stuff will be that little bit better. Eventually I'll digitize my own stuff too. Not that I have a lot of it.
Up for digitizing tomorrow is some Billy Joel, who I have to admit, I also know very little about.
