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iwombat - 2007-05-25 12:52:16
well when I first stated doing audio, there were these things they were English and expensive and almost snobby, and they sounded really good, you don't really need them anymore, but if I was really rich I would probably buy one mostly to look at it.
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amatt - 2007-05-25 13:05:08
Romantic Passion? There's a few, but most notable is my main bass. You would have to kill me in order to steal it.
I wish it wasn't so.
Oh, and I am in love with my lemon tree, which now has 3 lemons growing on it.
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iwombat - 2007-05-25 13:11:53
You know, I was just thinking about mentioning trees, flowering, aromatic trees. Walking around the neighborhood, I like looking at women, but looking at the trees, the flowering trees, feels very similar.
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Greg - 2007-05-25 16:34:10
I think like the average American I've got a bit of a consumerist addiction, but nothing I can think of that approaches fetishism. I had a pair of Tannoy speakers once that I was very fond of, and never entered the room without looking at them with some fondness. I guess I enjoyed them as much as I've ever enjoyed an object.
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2fs - 2007-05-26 00:03:44
About that tree: "Mister don't come near me."
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amy - 2007-05-26 12:19:39
My father's sliderule and my grandmother's diary.
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Bina - 2007-05-26 14:34:49
I'm a technophile and could wax lyrical about my cell phone laptop and iPod... but here are the things I really adore:
my flute; my piano; the watch my parents gave me when I graduated;
the ring I got from my grandmother when she died; and this really cool pair of white wedge shoes that make me six feet tall when I wear them.
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Paula - 2007-05-26 16:53:51
Tannoy speakers--unrelated to the topic but I've never understood the Clash line "Dad got pissed/So I got clocked/Couldn't hear the Tannoy/ so he lost the lot."
Wha--?
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Greg - 2007-05-26 19:55:32
That's an interesting lyric... Got pissed means he got drunk. Got clocked means he had his clock cleaned, or Dad went upside his head. Tannoy is a brand name, but much like Hoover also became an improper noun. The "Tannoy" means the P.A. I can't remember the context of that line though. Re: Tannoy studio monitors--they've used a weird dual concentric driver with a brass horn tweeter/midrange for about 50 years. They've got a very distinctive sound and really not all that accurate but I've met a lot of engineers that love them. Scottish techies... can't be beat.
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Greg - 2007-05-26 19:59:40
This is the Tannoy 800a
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grigorss - 2007-05-27 14:03:05
I have more than a few "object fetishes" -- but chief amongst them are robots/mechanical men; I've been fascinated by them almost from birth (according to my parents and brothers) and they continue to exert a certain influence over me -- but this object (and the movie and book from which it hails) has completely obsessed me from the first moment I laid eyes on them; to the extent that I have several models and dozens of pix of it. I guess the common quality is that they are both organic forms that are represented in metal; I don't even want to start to dig into the psychology of it, however (although Roland Barthes has written an insightful essay on the matter in his book, "Mythologies")
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Greg - 2007-05-27 19:19:59
Is that the Nautilus from 20,000 leagues? I think this is the first time I've seen it. It looks like a sucker fish I had for about 15 years (R.I.P. Kareem).
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grigorss - 2007-05-27 19:52:35
Is that the Nautilus from 20,000 leagues?
Yes it is, Greg. -- Or as I like to call it, "the most beautiful thing in the world"...
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Greg - 2007-05-27 20:47:18
more beautiful than the starship Enterprise???
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grigorss - 2007-05-27 21:19:08
Greg -- 'fraid so...
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Greg - 2007-05-27 21:22:52
Oh, go on...
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