Lizzy’s first response is about the same as anyone else that has visited my home to listen to a record or two; sheer amazement. It’s interesting to see how most seem to remember their parents owning LPs, but not remembering playing them. It’s fun to see them respond when I explain how to control the player and where the beginning and end is, most seem to at first assume the beginning is at the center of the record.

The record playing here is Sigor Rós’ Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust or, to put it in terms we can actually understand/read; The album with the naked folk running.

Wise words to live by.

He’s such a sweet big brother :-)

One of the first times she’s been in the living room, and she seems to love it!

I think she’s going to be ok.. :-)

The good news is she’s pretty darn healthy, short of her having parasites from drinking dirty water, likely. This, apparently, is not that bad, and after about two weeks worth of medicine and a few extra just-to-make-sure visits every three days or so, she should be all good and ready to grow into the food-devouring monster she’ll be. I didn’t really want to get a third cat, but sometimes you just got to go with the flow I guess. Can’t leave her out in the cold, now can I..

(Sorry about the mess, I was in the middle of moving things around and not doing my dishes. Ahem.)

Finally went out and bought another record player. The one I’ve been using so far wasn’t really meant for casual listening (it’s a portable turntable with pre-amp and amp built in – it’s biggest problem in a living room setup, really). I now have the record player hooked up to my amplifier using the DJPreII phono amplifier. My speakers, amp and record player are all from Inkel, a Korean brand apparently rather famous locally, at least to those a few generations older (it seems nowadays they only really do some studio audio stuff).

The album playing is Nat “King” Cole’s Just One Of Those Things. Wonderful album!

A few more to further my tiny collection. This time I went for a few jazzy records, a truly great genre for vinyl listening. Big names like Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, and the (very) odd man out; John Denver. I picked that one up mostly for the memories I have, my parents enjoy his voice quite a bit.

(Recorded with my mobile phone, hence the shitty quality. Apologies for that.)

One of newest additions to my ever-so-slowly growing record collection. Memories!

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