Midnight ... garden ... evil
Sunday, May 12th, 2002 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthReally stupid things to do on a Sunday, #325(a):
- walk through Lewisham's rougher side carrying £250-worth of new hi-fi in a box labelledsteal me now Sony.
Luckily I got home with no more damage than that inflicted by (a) an overactive imagination, and (b) Dixons' pathetic notion of carry-handles.
It's really cool.
It's all because I had a migraine yesterday (on a Saturday - life so unfair), and while I was lying in bed moaning and whining I really wanted to listen to music: but the only music in the bedroom is the radio, and I didn't feel up to actual words. By the time I'd rigged up the old Walkman and speakers and Beethoven's Ninth (which is a brilliant alternative to Migraleve, by the way) I was feeling a bit bad-tempered about the whole affair - especially when Old Walkman started skipping and chugging during the quiet bits.
And nowadays I spend much more time in my study than I used to: away from the Proper Stereo and the minidisk recording deck, which is due for retirement as it's not too reliable any more. Shouldn't have to skid between rooms to listen to, and then record, a new CD (or 5. Hmm, have been rather self-indulgent this weekend.)
So the old stereo from the study has moved to the bedroom (where I need speaker brackets): the old clock radio may move into the kitchen, as there's no radio there: and my wonderful new stereo is playing and recording all this wonderful new music [Dirtbombs, Kosheen, Simian, Jimmy Eat World] efficiently and smoothly and with an option of recording 240 minutes per MD. (Though that'll be useless with the current MD walkman).
And it looks very, very nice.
Am vaguely worried by rampant consumerism: but wotthehell, archie, wotthehell: it's a Quality of Life issue.
In other news, went to Greenwich Park to alleviate consumer-guilt by annihilating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.
Some photographs ... only about 50K each.
The fabled tumuli ... have seen better days. In the background (L) Canary Wharf etc, (R) Greenwich Observatory
Left centre, the Cutty Sark and the south end of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel
London skyline, cyclist, and - to the left - 'Standing Figure - Knife Edge' by Henry Moore
Canary Wharf again, with cranes - and part of the former Royal Naval College
- walk through Lewisham's rougher side carrying £250-worth of new hi-fi in a box labelled
Luckily I got home with no more damage than that inflicted by (a) an overactive imagination, and (b) Dixons' pathetic notion of carry-handles.
It's really cool.
It's all because I had a migraine yesterday (on a Saturday - life so unfair), and while I was lying in bed moaning and whining I really wanted to listen to music: but the only music in the bedroom is the radio, and I didn't feel up to actual words. By the time I'd rigged up the old Walkman and speakers and Beethoven's Ninth (which is a brilliant alternative to Migraleve, by the way) I was feeling a bit bad-tempered about the whole affair - especially when Old Walkman started skipping and chugging during the quiet bits.
And nowadays I spend much more time in my study than I used to: away from the Proper Stereo and the minidisk recording deck, which is due for retirement as it's not too reliable any more. Shouldn't have to skid between rooms to listen to, and then record, a new CD (or 5. Hmm, have been rather self-indulgent this weekend.)
So the old stereo from the study has moved to the bedroom (where I need speaker brackets): the old clock radio may move into the kitchen, as there's no radio there: and my wonderful new stereo is playing and recording all this wonderful new music [Dirtbombs, Kosheen, Simian, Jimmy Eat World] efficiently and smoothly and with an option of recording 240 minutes per MD. (Though that'll be useless with the current MD walkman).
And it looks very, very nice.
Am vaguely worried by rampant consumerism: but wotthehell, archie, wotthehell: it's a Quality of Life issue.
In other news, went to Greenwich Park to alleviate consumer-guilt by annihilating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.
Some photographs ... only about 50K each.
The fabled tumuli ... have seen better days. In the background (L) Canary Wharf etc, (R) Greenwich Observatory
Left centre, the Cutty Sark and the south end of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel
London skyline, cyclist, and - to the left - 'Standing Figure - Knife Edge' by Henry Moore
Canary Wharf again, with cranes - and part of the former Royal Naval College
