January 2012
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My Grandfather's His Master's Voice fridge, circa...
Above is a 1950’s His Master’s Voice (HMV) fridge and was owned by my late grandfather (Pop). Ever since I was a small child he would say to me “One day Simon, that fridge will be yours.” He passed away 6 years ago, then recently my Nanna has moved out of their house into an aged care facility and now their house of 35 years is empty.
My Nanna has allowed me to move this wonderful family...
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30 records, 1 iPhone.
Another few weeks, I’ve removed all the albums that were on this list and now have a new collection on my iPhone. I really enjoyed rediscovering a few records like Passion Pit - Manners, Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy and Art Brut’s - Bang Bang Rock n Roll.
I hadn’t really clicked with Black Tie White Noise by Bowie before, but there was something about listening to it in...
“Say no to injecting, force-feeding or forcing animals to inhale substances for a...”
– Morrissey sign the petition here (via quarrygirl)
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I only have 30 albums on my iPhone at a time.
I love music, I have a 32GB iPhone and I have over 700+ artists in my iTunes. For most people with a similar amount of space and music collection their portable music player would be full of music, not for me though. I like to put a personal limit on the amount of music I carry, 30 albums by 30 artists. Why? It’s a way of forcing myself to listen to albums in full, as I always believe...