Author: Mark Alexander

A compelling argument.

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When I was growing up and coming of age, vinyl (and to a lesser extent, cassettes) were the only real choices. Yeah, there was reel-to-reel tape, but who could afford that? Nearly all of my musical memories are tied to vinyl, with the exception of a half dozen or so CDs that really stand out in my memory.

CDs may come and go from my life (and as I’ve mentioned here several times, all of them did go after the fire two years ago), but after purging all my vinyl in the late 1980s and rebuilding and augmenting my collection in the 90s through today,  vinyl is forever. Even if I don’t play it nearly as much as I’d like to.

And while I may balk at paying $35 for a new (or reissued) release, when you take inflation into account, that price is actually on par with the $5-10 I’d pay for stuff back in the day.

 

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It’s their own damn fault.

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Reminds me of a time back in college when my friend Peter and I were out shopping and I was trying on jeans. (I think they were Jordache, but don’t hold me to that.) When I came out of the fitting room wearing a pair, he yelled from about thirty feet away, “I can see it from here!”

Good times.

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I’ve never paid for sex per se, but I’ve had massages that turned into sex. (Okay, he was a masseur who advertised in the back pages of the Bay Area Reporter, so…) Does that count?

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An amazing timelapse of the Earth rising over the Moon filmed by the Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. Credit: JAXA/NHK

We’re all so used to seeing the grainy films of the Apollo program it comes as a bit of a shock to see these new views in glorious hi-res.

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I wasn’t always like this. But as I’ve grown older it’s become more and more pronounced.

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One advantage of living in Arizona is we don’t have to mess with the clocks twice a year. (Although I actually do miss leaving work and arriving home in the dark like I did when I lived in San Francisco.)

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If I were a single issue voter, my single issue would be that traitors be hung at the neck until dead.

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To my Subscribers:

I’m busy re-posting items from the version of Voenix Rising that I deleted prior to moving to Denver via The Wayback Machine, so if you get email notifications of new posts, they aren’t actually new…they’re just…rediscovered.

Because I’ve got nothing better to do. Like cataloging my vinyl collection.

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Because I was “advocating violence against a group or an individual.”

UPDATE: They immediately released it after I contested it.

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