Tapes

My cassette player died this week. This was devastating to me. I grew to LOVE the cassette format over the past several months. It only took me a couple of days to go out and buy this ugly little thing:

It's pretty crude. And a bit of a downgrade from my iTouch. It was $13 at Target. It kind of sucks because I have to listen to all my tapes with headphones. This sucks because my speakers that are hooked up to my record player are messed up (sound cuts out of the left speaker, could PROBABLY correct it, but haven't gotten around to it) so I've had to listen to all my records on headphones too. Given, I LIKE headphones. And sometimes I do prefer to listen to stuff on headphones, but sometimes I also like filling my room with sound instead of just my ears. I think I'm going to get sick of the headphones pretty quickly actually and go ahead and fix the speaker connection, but for now headphones it is. Which does let me hear the tapes in a different way. So I went and dug out 30+ tapes that I plan on listening to over the course of the week. They're all either new tapes that I've only gotten to listen to once, or just tapes that I really like and haven't listened to in a while. I'm on number 3 right now. I will list them for you (italics = listened to):

Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Acid-X
Albero Rovesciato - Ancient Shining Drums Of The Covered City
Stone Baby - Vir Heroicus Subliminus
Sepviva Bells - Halloween In The Sea
Pocahaunted - Beast That You Are
Pocahaunted - Gold Miner's Daughters
Vibes - You God It
Predator Vision - S/T
Predator Vision - II
Ducktails - 1992 Demo
Ducktails - II
Ducktails - Acres Of Shade
Dreams In Mirror Field - S/T
Silver Futures - From The Swamp Rot Rises My Baby's Dream
Mark McGuire - Open Chords
Mark McGuire - Off In The Distance
Mark McGuire - The Gardens Of Eternal Life
Steve Hauschildt - Rapt For Liquid Minister
Steve Hauschildt - The Stairwell Is Long Gone
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Seven Inside & Out
Prehistoric Blackout - Wake Up Dead
Sovetskaya Gone - S/T
Lilypad - Capacitor
Lilypad - Signal Longings
Mist - Certain Expansion
Sam Goldberg - Winter Hallucinations: II
Sam Goldberg - Out Of Body Experiences
Sam Goldberg / Color Dream - Cultivating A Sound Garden
Color Dream - Cloud Factory
Color Dream - Sky Walker
Color Dream - Reminisce
Earth Station - 58
Brett Favre - The Underlying Focus Upon Single Negative Entities In Life Is Testament To The Positivity Of Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness
Flower Man - Peppermint Steamroom

A note on Color Dream's "Reminisce"...got that in the mail on Saturday and the first tape was blank :-(. Emailed Peter and that'll be fixed soon. Still a bummer, though.