Remember some of these too . . . ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3pO5UvtEw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_8LP802xY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbNRZ5rVem8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N_rNz2oAGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8pvXLVu8Yk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPu1G_jMU8U
VIDEOS
Just a few favourite music videos .
. .
Not all musicians made a video of
their songs back then . . .
Crash Test Dummies Mmm Mmm Mmm, No
Doubt Don't Speak, Beth Orton She Cries Your
Name, Spin Doctors Cleopatra's Cat, Lenny Kravitz
Is There Any Love, John Mellencamp Check It Out
(Live), Nina Simone My Baby Just Cares For Me
(animated), Mick Jagger Hard Woman, Moloko Sing
It Back, Billy Joel Pressure, Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers Mary Jane, Al Di Meola, Queen Death
On Two Legs - Liar - Sweet Lady - Its A Hard
Life, Orleans Still The One, Manhattan Transfer
Chanson D'Amour, Manfred Manns Earth Band Blinded
By The Light, Neil Sedaka Laughter In The Rain,
Steely Dan Reelin' In The Years - Hey Nineteen,
EDan/JFColey Realy Love To See You Tonight,
Champaign How Bout Us, Heart Magic Man, Freur
Doot Doot, Johnny Rivers Poor Side Of Town, LJ
Deep Shag, Pans People, Legs & Co, Curtis
Mayfield Move On Up, Starbuck Moonlight Feels
Right, Nick Lowe Cruel To Be Kind, Raydio Woman
Needs Love Just Like You Do, Five man Electric
Band Signs, Donovan Season Of The Witch, Neil
Young Rockin In The Free World, ELP Talking Out
Of Turn - From The Beginning, Foghat Slow Ride,
Mary Macgregor Dancing Like Lovers, Ohio Players
Love Rollercoaster, Spinners Rubberband Man, Styx
Come Sail Away - Lady, Badfinger No Matter What,
Boston More Than A Feeling, Benson/Santana
Breezin, Fleetwood Mac Believe Me - Miles Away -
Oh Well, Kiki Dee Band I Got The Music In Me, Hot
Choc You Sexy Thing, Led Zep Kashmir, Neil Sedaka
Bad Blood, Neil Young Heart Of Gold, Al Jarreau
So Long Girl, Bruce Hornsby The Way It Is,
Ladyhawke My Delirium, Little River Band Night
Owl, Rainbow Stone Cold, Bauhaus Ziggy Stardust,
Christopher Cross Ride Like The Wind, Joe Jackson
Steppin Out, Amazing Rhythm Aces The End Is Not
In Sight, System Of A Down, Tool Sober and many
others . . .
. . . including this one been
hunting a name forever
Hong Jin
Young - Boogie Man ( 2014 )
. . . so cute and happy song !!!
Lovely Olde Tape Gear . . .
Denon DRM-600 / DRW-830 Cassette
Decks . . .
One of the things i appreciated most about the
above models...
Was it detected when F/R had come to the Leader
tape...
And how shutting that function off early to save
it...
Most of all other cassette decks, depending on
the motor power and momentum would literally
cause your tape to bunch-up as it tightened
hard at the end of the f/r run, causing in
turn a majority of the first half playing
slightly faster than normaly intended by
the musical artist. It also meant that
your favourite tape would have a lower
lifetime, by that tape area becoming
therefore harder tape material, not
remaining flexible, and often made
worse by being left that way, not
some tape left unplayed and more
relaxed inside the cover for
months or years, or in the
car getting sun cooked !!!
I now use a more friendly
Onkyo TA-2029 deck as it
has far more open head
space and mechanism.
Letting the tape
flow freely !!!
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Including . . .
Timer : Rec | Off | Play
Repeat : Off On | Single Full
Dolby : In Out | B A
Bias | Balance
Auto Space
Input Slider
AMCS
Aut Mus Ctrl Sys
10sec track
intro
.Pick up a pack of
spare drive belts !
( https://stereonomono.blogspot.com/2015/06/onkyo-ta-2028.html )
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[ ...slow your tape as it's coming fast back to
reel ! ]
[ ...press play or stop before it arrives there !
]
[ ...better for accurate tape recording too ! ]
|
{ ...shine a torch at 45°
on the tape bulk as
it's coming
speeding up to the end and
watch as it tightens, some tape is
now sticking out sideways, a
soft rewind shows it
smooth ! }
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...a neat little real intended ' tape noise '
inclusion !
...better than a program plug-in version !
...keep your decks for this !
...good on ya !
...yep !
{ ...by the way, a very slight
'marker' every two mill's along the way just
means momentum has caught up during the rewind
and the tape barely slips forward at the speed
leaving it there, notice accuracy ! }
Cassettes...
Recording all your old guitar works
from tape...
Use the following with either or
both Analog and Digital efforts...
Enjoy all your standard recorded
tapes and l/p's via .mp3 from way back by
using Winamp v5.66 and Stereo Expander v1.0
(dsp_Stereo_Expander.dll)
{ ...or inbuilt Multiple DSP v1.6
for Winamp (dsp_multiple.dll) }
...gives yours a professional
feel !
...redubbing easy !
|
See : Cassettes
Video ! ! !
|
...including vhs tapes by processing
/ redubbing audio at .wav / .avi !
...really any same timed audio by
standard file !
...gives memories life !
|
...don't forget to very simply set
your gain too,
...with MP3Gain / MP3GainGUI !
...easy afterworks !
While chatting about ye great olde
cassettes . . .
Picked myself up one the other day from my own
music era . . .
James Last, Games That Lovers Play,
Polydor, 1914537. (1967/78?)
Side A :
Games that lovers play
I left my heart in san francisco
Make this night last forever
Never on sunday
Fly me to the moon
This is my song
Went to put it on sit back and the
first track hits you like a ton !!!
Sounds like a giant gong at full volume before
settling...
Otherwise a nice reminder of the mellow pops...
Thanfully i have a fade-in control for this !
Side B :
Lara's theme
Now i know (Laguna)
What now my love
Elizabeth serinade
A man and a woman
Blame it on me
Twelve saucy tracks to float off to !
...have a look at his live shows !
...backing singers up front !
. . . l o v e r l y !
Always keep a VCR Tape Player on
hand . . .
. . . my olde Goldstar GHV-1245 now
long gone !
Sitting back doing stuff...
Sometimes it's easier to just singlehandedly
rename files with your mouse...
By the way, your old '
On-Screen Keyboard ' exe from WinXP
appears to work in later windows !
. . . smaller and out of the way, menu select alt
kbrd if blue interface !
. . . give it a try, put somewhere easy to click
!
Our real life music...
CASSETTES OF THE DAY :
...songs for singing !
Simply a few of the music
cassettes back in the day, now listening to
again...
Queen : A
Night At The Opera
Death On Two Legs, Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon,
I’m In Love With My Car, You’re My Best
Friend, ’39, Sweet Lady, Seaside Rendezvous,
The Prophet’s Song, Love Of My Life, Good
Company, Bohemian Rhapsody, God Save The Queen
America's Greatest Hits : History
Horse With No Name, I Need You, Sandman, Ventura
Highway, Don't Cross The River, Only In Your
Heart, Muskrat Love, Tin Man, Lonely People,
Sister Golden Hair, Daisy Jane, Woman Tonight
(...i could almost hear noise control coming ! )
Carpenters : Their
Greatest Hits
Yesterday Once More, Superstar, Rainy Days And
Mondays, Top Of The World, Ticket To Ride,
Goodbye To Love, This Masquerade, Hurting Each
Other, Solitaire, We've Only Just Begun, Those
Good Old Days, Please Mr. Postman, I won't Last A
Day Without You, Touch Me When We're Dancing,
Jambalaya, For All We Know, All You Get From Love
Is A Love Song, (They Long To Be) Close To You,
Only Yesterday, Calling Occupants Of
Interplanetary Craft
Lost In Time - NOT if
all us listeners can all help it
!
( click above for their music making ! )
. . . and many many many
many more !
. . . hum and sing !
.
Photography
- Cloud Shapes 2
...right click : beautiful
and rare !
TEN YEARS AFTER . . .
Music should be listened to in your
own quiet space to appreciate away from
everything else in life . . .
Moving on . . . Mutton Birds Nature,
Rammstein America, 4 Non Blondes, Baby Animals
Early Warning, Sophie Ellis-Bexter Murder On The
Dance Floor, Bexter-Spiller Groovejet If This
Aint Love, Courtney Love Celebrity Skin, Green
Day American Idiot, Iggy Pop Real Wild Child,
Iggy Pop The Passenger, Mmm Mmm Mmm, Natalie
Imbrulia Torn, No Doubt Dont Speak, Wheatus
Teenage Dirtbag, Outkast Hey Ya, Right Said Fred
Too Sexy, Supergrass Richard III, Robert Plant
Freeway, Stupid Girl, Fiona Apple Criminal, TATU
All The Things She Said, The Dandy Warhols
Bohemian Like You, Once In A Lifetime, Take Me To
The Water, Weezer Buddy Holly, Clocks, Coffee And
TV, Crazy, Dave Dobbyn Loyal, Deep Shag, Fiona
Apple PaperBag, Lily Allen Not Fair, Meredith
Brooks Bitch, Nina Simone My Baby Just Cares For
Me, Sharon Corr Small Town Boy, Supergrass
Alright, The Motels Total Control, The Salmon
Dance, Ting Tings Thats Not My Name, Why Does My
Heart Feel So Bad, Zowie Broken Machine, Beth
Orton She Cries Your Name, Hit Me With Your Rythm
Stick, In The Kitchen At Parties Jona Lewie,
Loverboy Working For The Weekend, Mi Sex But You
Dont Care, Moloko, Money Thats What I Want,
Mutton Birds Dominion Rd, The Flowers Hey Little
Girl, Real Life Send Me An Angel, Pat Benatar We
Live For Love, The Flowers We Can Get Together,
Brass In Pocket, Enola Gay, Fade To Gray, Gloria,
The Pretenders Middle Of The Road, Spin Doctors .
. .
That way you get the most from it in
one sitting.
Then you hear it again one day.
Helps your heart.
To all my pets long gone . . .
Neil Young
- Long May You Run (unplugged)
YOUTUBE
Other songs used to sound so rushed
and the singing a little forced to please the
producer...
Ever flicked back over your old pile
of vhs tapes or cassettes to see what you watched
back then ?
Remember the Alessi Brothers, well
actually I had forgotten their sound until I
heard ' Oh Lori ' simply while passing by the
other day. A great song that played over the
radio between all the other hits back in the days
growing up. The other links here are songs I've
only heard for the first time . . .
Alessi Brothers - Oh Lori (TV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXbB_h6Rjds
Alessi Brothers - Oh Lori (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-CEkKXGGMQ
Alessi Brothers - Seabird (TV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgz9k46o7tI
Alessi Brothers - Seabird (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkDjF79biuc
TV Wish List . . .
Popular music is already represented
here. I would like to see a Classic Concerto type
television show go to air. Full orchestra, single
guitarists, unique instruments, small acoustic
bands and performers.
. . . programmes put to air at the
exact same time each and every day not all over
the place.
. . . and every episode of Adventure
Time should be played from the start.
Need to quieten your acoustic
strings...?
search : acoustic strings dampner
Just a bit of history . . .
Gemking
TF-40 Acoustic Guitar
. . . better than some !
Limits playing, sound . . .
Acoustic
Guitar Sound Damper
. . . project for ears !
NEWS
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MOVIES
Special moments in time . . .
One of my old favourites : Wings Of
Desire 1987
The moment his friend sees his
footsteps, and the colour in his face . . .
Star Wars 1977, THX-1138, Logans
Run, Battlestar Galactica (original), 2001 A
Space Odyssey, 2010 A Space Odyssy, Space 1999,
The Fantastic Journey, Thunderbirds, Star Trek
Next Generation, Star Trek Voyager, Deep Space
Nine, Xanadu, Taxi, Andromeda Strain, Lost In
Space, Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, Charlies
Angels, Hair, Hart To Hart, Knight Rider, Inner
Space, Land Of The Giants, Mission Impossible,
The Bionic Woman, Birdy, The Invisible Man, Party
Of Five, James Bond, The Avengers, The Man From
Uncle, Three Musketeers, The Man In The Iron Mask
(original), Tales From The Crypt, Stingray, The
Fantastic Journey, The Outer Limits, Dead Like
Me, The Sandbaggers, Softly Softly, Z-Cars, Time
Tunnel, StarGate (Original), The Twighlight Zone,
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Shaft, Mad Max
(Original), Rain Man, Dr Katz, The Battle of
Britain, Von Ryans Express, In Harms Way, All
quiet on the western front, The guns of navarone,
The Diary of Anne Frank, Full Metal Jacket, The
Last Kamikaze, Kelly's Heroes, Bridge over the
River Kwai, The Dirty Dozen, Sophies Choice,
Platoon, Das Boot, A Bridge Too Far, Colditz,
Tora! Tora! Tora!, Casablanca, The Butcher Boy,
The Pianist, Wallace and Grommet The Wrong
Trousers, A Bridge Too Far, only the originals .
. .
Have a look at Kes (1969) is pretty
realistic from our day, no point trying to learn
anything . . .
Lately . . . Only Lovers Left Alive
(2013), they played it again tonight, so bloody
great.
And the romance
. . . and music
"
bring the milk in will you . . . "
MEMORIES
How we all lived . . .
In a world where various policies
simply don't love people anymore . . .
If you collect memories, please do
photograph or film or record the item for the
rest of the world . . .
You don't need to be selling
something in order to display them for others to
enjoy . . .
But first, I miss the old note money
that you could stash away in your tight upper
jeans pockets. Over a long while you'd build up a
thick wad of these gorgeous pale brown and thin
black one dollar or lilac and thin black two
dollar notes. For which you could get a fifty
cent coin back after you bought something. I miss
the smell of real paper money too. And beautiful
line drawings of our country's birds on the other
side. When you held them, it felt like money
really meant something, a real belonging that you
could spend with pride and joy and respect. These
days one hardly sees the bigger notes as they're
spent from your bank before you even know it.
Where's it all gone. You know if I had my own
fish and chip shop I would have lemons right
there on the counter top. In the old days people
would bring in lemons from their tree for folks
to have for free. Other shops would leave a slice
of lemon on your fish in the paper packets too. I
miss the best of the old days.
All your knowledge travels with you
through life, we just don't need it daily . . .
This is where teddy comes into the
picture . . . You are not too old for it !!!
Way, wayyy back, decades ago, for a
few years there our family would trim and string
crimped crepe paper corner to corner and across
the living room ceiling, and balloons, and
pinking scissors to make xmas hats, all us kids
would be called on to balance on that pouf with a
drawing pin and put up all the colours and
lanterns to welcome Xmas and the New Year. Not
forgeting silver and gold tinsel and baubles
around the real Xmas tree. All of the love and
lies. And yeah, it was kinda fun just through
those much better family years before our parents
became worse psychologicaly. Like opening the
extending table and setting things out for our
cousins to come over for a chicken and salad and
potato lunch. But to be honest us kids started
life as toddlers walking down the end of our road
with the other little kids looking through the
local open rubbish tip, shorts and bare feet, no
one cared and it was fun looking through junk all
afternoon, finding things that were no use but
something interesting about it, remember this was
in the days of wood sticks and nails tommy guns
wood magazines out the side, very cool running
around the place, then taking our bits back home
to show mum. Sometimes i wonder if there's anyone
still around who remembers the rare but great
rock war back 1970 in the middle of our sports
field, two great holes dug out with logs placed
across, our den we would hide and throw at the
others same pit fifty feet away, scary stuff and
mud absolutely everywhere, and telling-off's.
Flicking rubber bands and drawing pins on tech
drawing seats. Cold tinsel xmas festivities. All
of the false bravado that damaged. The day we
were on the way home along the motorway from
visiting further south when suddenly our wheel
came flying forward out the front of the car
because the axle had broken, being very small and
young i hid down below dad's drivers seat and the
back seat, and how dad had to glide to a stop
with us kids sitting to one side to keep the car
up. My first operation at six years old, Weekly
grocery truck pulling up outside and using our
old pram to cart things in, All of the stories
that never sounded true, Bovril marmalade teapots
sugar cubes butter and scones, Listening to the
parents radiogram selection whether we wanted to
or not, Saying our prayers at the bedside, And
later playing Monopoly and Ludo out on the lounge
carpet. All the awkward things. No one realy
knows anothers life because its never the right
time to know or because its just too boring. Oh
well, what else...Down the hardware shop watching
nails poured onto brown paper on the weighing
scales, Drawing spitfires and tanks from
yesteryear, Wrapping things in newsprint, Seadogs
and fries, Making a bow and arrow, Getting the
milk bottles in (and putting them out with
tokens), Telly programmes like daktari,
Television B&W, Mushroom soup primary school,
Trips to the beach, Wish upon a star, The first
punch, Listening to the overseas news, Worldwide
tragedies, All the wasted lives, Dad's war
stories, My uncle from bombers with shrapnel
still in his thigh, Mum's own war stories,
Bathtub battery submarine, To be in the visiting
family room listening to all manner of stories
was too much for children who never knew of such
things, Hijackings on runnways, And death on our
black and white telly, All of whom are long long
gone, Dripping and Black Pudding, Our big old
Ford, Building a tree hut out the back, Dad
making me a sling shot i didn't want, All the
rude things by those you didn't think would.
Plasterscene coloured strips, Learning there was
something called God, and Jesus, and all these
other people, Dad drinking and hammering the
steak, literally. Homemade sock garters from hat
elastic, Girl neighbour who got me in heap big
trouble with dad - thanks!, Wallpaper writing
book covers (don't forget to cut angles), How to
change a tyre tube hole with patch out on the
street, How to chop fireplace kindling with the
hatchet, My cowlick, Wittling a fishing spear,
Looking at caravans, Toy cap guns, Topsey's and
Jellytips, Watching the great kreskin and others
that claimed to move objects read minds and bend
cutlery on telly (sometimes ending in massive
reactions upon being found out), Pink ice-cream
sandwich wafers, Forever remembering the earliest
years of going without food or clothes or toys
and moving house and getting hit, Club
sandwiches, Our aunties small square wood servery
door to the lounge at xmas with the club
sandwiches and cordial, including all the really
different (when you're a kid) and flowery shapes
and designs and colours clothing they and others
were wearing while growing into this world - not
forgetting their shaped shoes and hats and
perfumes (and all us guys in normal standard
everythings), Setting the fireplace with sheet of
newspaper layered with screwed up lengths with
kindling and small logs atop and sweeping up the
ashes after, Making a crystal set radio in an old
cigar box, Listening to Long Wave radio with
single earplug, Our banana tree, Making a macreme
neckless with wax cord, Wearing jandals
everywhere as a kid, Smell of early Op Theatre
gas, Coloured fly strips on the back door, Deck
chairs, First cigar, Watching the milkman,
Plasticine, Chatting to my girlfriend from a
telephone pay booth, Spoon of black syrup, Stupid
iron-on transfers on 60's jeans, Having to iron
our handkerchiefs instead of getting our more
important homework done, Not having a torch to go
to the toilet at night, Troublemakers, Girls,
Loud stinky fun red firecrackers and rockets,
Popcorn, Helping dad light the hot water cylinder
gas ring, Mum pricking my giant blister, My
pocket knife, Huge water rats down at the stream,
Outdoor camping and firemaking and baking and
cooking and hiking and swimming and tenting and
guitar singing and washing and sleeping bags,
Groceries in brown paper bags, Burning the
rubbish out the back, Packing the Star both sides
of my bikes green saddle bags, Water pistols,
Digging peelings into the garden, Growing up in a
quiet country while the vietnam war was
happening, Including the cold war, Korea happened
a decade before, Space Rockets, The girlfriend
who had a different plan, Hiking along beautiful
boulder streams, Washing in the double concrete
laundry tubs, Filling our cordial bottle, That
racing car along the road, Using different
coloured pens in our hardcover engineering theory
book, Earliest bike crash tearing a gash in my
leg - the seat too high for stopping, That wasp
nest, Mashed potato and gravy and peas, The first
coloured pencil leads pen, Thin coloured crayons,
Firing my first slug rifle, The gas stove spark
lighter with flints, Motorboating (no jackets),
Making toast under the (gas cooker with) glowing
overhead grill, First pencil drawings, Dad
showing us kids how to make kites with bamboo and
newspaper and string and then going up the park
to try them out, Fly swats, Chocolate fish, First
telephone conversation, Hand Shadow Birds, Cork
Pop Guns on a string, That giant eel down at the
hole, Brylcreem, School shorts too tight as we
got older, Packets of tall thin white emergency
candles, The cold war, Rope for your work jeans
belt, The car breaking down on the way back from
a trip, My first T-Square, Tin can and wire
handle billy boiling tea, naturaly despatch (as
in chicken exit not dispatch goods to~ or
dispatch office) and preparing food in the old
days, First time i used a big heavy bottle jack,
Getting a sore foot trimming the path edges with
the blade wheel, My bike crash, Blowing bubble
gum, Using a fret saw to make plane models, First
time we all tasted margarine, Sticky fly paper in
the kitchen, Mum smoking, Dad drinking,
Relatives, Cousins, Kitchen radio, Making and
sleeping under a leafy bivouac, The long wooden
ruler, Wine gums, Riding the horse, Preserving
conserving and repairing everything to save us
money, Rolling socks up for storage, Dad and his
mates war stories, The strap, The jug chord,
Wonderful smell of a joint roasting away in the
oven, Not using the Flymo, Dangerous co-workers,
That horrible smell of mums sunscreen at the
beach, collecting Cremoata cards, The smell of
op' theatre gas, My first bike bus ferry coach
train plane rides, My first guache painting of a
speed boat on gessobord at about eight years old
was self realized and others were genuinely
surprised, Way back affording one bath a week Mum
first then us kids by the time it got to me the
youngest... Folding sheets in pairs, Real
homemade butter on crackers, Cheese marmite
lettuce school sammy's, Spacelab, Being thrown
neck deep into the creek and no one helping pull
me out, Our beautiful quiet neighbourhood back in
the day, Listening out for the morning radio
cancellations for the school sports, Drying the
dog after the wheelbarrow wash, Ironing our
school uniform, Polishing our black leather
school shoes, That dog fight, Realising people
don't have enough time, Airfix model kitsets and
soldiers, The cloak room, Playing down by the
stream using nylons and looped wire to catch
little guppies, Grazed toes on broken concrete
pain, Coin collecting book for learning to save
money - but never allowed to take the money out
to spend because my parents did, Us kids building
a raft with planks and drums underneath by the
stream, Chores, Me and the cat, Big dragonflies,
The first few weeks we moved in and rotary hoed
the rough ground and sowed the first ever grass,
Friendship lessons, Dental nurse at the classroom
door calling one of our names off to the dreaded
corded drill with rocklike bits, My motorbike
crash, That old corded dental drill and rough
grinding bits, Building Airfix plastic models and
painting them with Humbrol, Lollypops, The first
kiss, Cooking class, Parent Teacher meetings
after school, Four Square, Jinty locomotive
electric train set with yellow and red dial
battery controller from some other set,
Appreciating aircraft like the Supermarine
Spitfire, Boing 747 and Concorde, Using our first
rubbish tin instead of large paper bags, Lunch
money, Watching the matinee movie from the
beautiful theatres mezzanine floor, third hand
Beano and Commando comics, classic green yellow
pink on white stripped sheets when our family
first started out, and pale green laundry walls,
and our cat with a racist name via dad, picking
wild blackberries next door, travelling to our
Doctor miles away, Pop music, Getting five cents
back on softdrink bottles, Aquaintances who
expected me to remember some important detail
about them, Taste of having to lick stamps, Disco
music, Heavy Metal, Blick transfer war books,
Folding sleek darts and paper planes, Sausages on
the old three legged charcoal barbeque, Multi
Coloured Ball Pens, The mark 1 tank, Our
childrens tricycle, Underlining and drawing in
our hardcover schoolbooks, Lining-up with a
ruler, Our small yellow lunchbox and curved blue
drink bottle, Bubble Gum, My first watch with
hard brown leather cover, and cardboard and white
vinyl box radio, soccer boots balls pumps jersey
and school fields, The sound of crockery, Toys we
never got to keep, That motorbike, Making stove
toast on the roasting fork, Making wooden tommy
guns with a latch or bit of no8 wire and a rubber
band and mag' handle out the side, Schoolwork,
Watching the moon landing, Yukky penicillin,
Homework, Looking into the shadows of a
freshwater stream at all the life below, Dad and
me washing the sides of the house, Getting
seasick in the dingy, Doing my early paper run
and losing my brakes down a hill narrowly missing
death from a car coming from my right, Sunday
roast with potatoes, carrots, peas, thin sliced
bread, gravy and mint sauce, Corn on the cobb
with butter, Coating the balsa plane in dope, My
car crash, Toi Toi, Pressing beautiful leaves in
books and 3B pencil rubbings on tracing paper,
The fun of walking along streams, The original
taste of penicillin, Skimming thin pebbles far
out over the water, Nearly getting a caning,
Making bows and arrows and playing cowboys and
itchybums, A two dollar note and a fish and chip
order in the door slot for lunchtime, The
screaming pain of iodine being put on a cut,
Working the factories building a balanced view of
life, Opening my eyes to see our hairy dogs nose
sniffing my face while lying there in the sun,
Being the youngest and everyone knew, My first
ring, Steel caps feet pain, Foods i used to be
able to eat, how to remember stuff as a kid and a
seemingly barren world arounhed me, Apricot
brandy, Buying and selling instruments at Harmony
House up on K Rd, Knowing we were all living our
family and single hard lives and hoping for none
of those problems, Haircuts, Space Shuttle,
Parents burning our schoolbooks at the end of the
fifth form (really miss those), Prepack rolled
roasts ready to cook in the oven made plenty of
dinners, Red and yellow meccanno truck, Had a B
card for a while there, Favourite objects to look
at Lighthouses Water Towers Coal Towers Cupola
Furnace Towers Gantry Bridges, Winning at seated
Xevious, School and work fire alarms in the years
before earthquake alarms, Letraset, Lining up to
get all our wonderful stationery beginning of
school year - again at university, And
engineering copy card too, Workplace injuries
pain and politics, Broken faith that goes with a
range of life, Knowing there are people who think
more than you - for a reason, Driving lessons
only to realise all the new chores, I would come
to like trains because dad just wouldn't take us
to see any - now I love them, Creme de menthe,
Feeding your car money and love, And a few
others, Knowing when to love someone else and
not, People who damage others, Just getting up
and doing the harder stuff, Putting time aside
for life matters while the fun's going on,
Putting on my uniform, The whistle of the factory
zip boiler for smoko, Never needing to pull the
factory emergency siren cable, Firing my first
military weapon, Kama sutra love oil, The natural
feeling of being a quiet human alone at peace,
Knowing your own mind body and spirit, Strengths
and weaknesses, Loves and hates, Forever starch
spray for our uniforms, I can stiill smell the
ironing room each time I walk past a laundrette,
To serve yourself with care and grow as a person,
To never lie to yourself, To respect others,
Knowing when you're wrong, or when you need to
learn a different thing right now, Reading
between life's lines, Not laughing for stupid
reasons, And to try and have faith in yourself
and others at the hardest times, All of
everything others want to forget, have no reason
to keep, or throw away . . . everything . . .
forever . . . the history of the world isn't
perfect . . . we all begin with a basic life and
speak . . .
Put your old photo's up on your
walls folks, see your memories . . .
Some of us are at the other end of
history time . . .
Save your VCR and Audio Tapes too .
. .
Before they no longer play . . .
And records . . .
Songs of substance . . .
Topp Twins
- Radiation - 1985
. . . and then later on . . .
Topp Twins
- We Burn Easily - 2011
. . . good on ya !
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Not into war machines but these are
my two old favourite planes . . .
The beautiful Supermarine Spitfire
shape . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gXSpkddM64
. . . and The Lancaster Bomber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTQIUEa4cqA
. . . wonderful ! ! !
( https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2019/d-day-75/auckland/ardmore )
. . . and of course the
beautiful sleek Concorde shape !
. . . including Boing 747 - 400
!
ELECTRONICS
Need an easy to control LED Light
over your laptop keyboard ?
If you've got an RS-232 port have a
look at ' LEDSdriver ' by downloading it from slicksolutions
Solder an LED on the correct two
pins and mount it along the top edge of laptop.
Have a play with mounting ideas
along the top edge of your screen.
Program starts each time you startup
down in system tray.
Type in bed or while you have that
midnight snack.
Or see those faded keyboard letters
again.
You can even fade it up and down.
[ v 0.9.023 ]
Save your fingers burning . . .
Easy Soldering
Iron Guard Project
( right click open in new tab )
...never melt insulation again
EMPLOYMENT
Given that I have worked in the
fields, outdoors, factories, workshops of lathes
and milling machines and gas torches, the forces,
offices, and official places here's a few of my
favourite jobs of all time . . .
Best Outdoor Job Ever . . .
The one job I loved most was working
with the iron furnace . . .
From the tough packing of walls, stocking up and
breaking old steel, to firing up and stoking the
tower, starting the turbine, the melting and
pouring, the beauty of slag, shutting down and
pulling the door, cleaning up and the smell of
real work, seeing the many finished products.
Seeing how the molds were made, and
the one off special metals projects.
. . . and getting ready for the next melt
[ greatest job for me ever - no matter what ]
(For historians, i don't believe
obsidian is the same as cast iron slag, simply
because slag cracks easily at ninety degrees
through it, where as the other does form sharp
edges, slightly translucent.)
Best Indoor Job Ever . . .
Grabbing cases of products and
bottles of the things we all use in our lives and
stacking on the shelves for everyone else to come
and buy. You learn anything and everything about
the products and the size of the cartons and
packets and how they sit together alongside all
the other items on sale. You can just get stuck
in and stack all shift long if you like without
any big chats.
[ second best peaceful job ever ]
Most Boring Job Ever . . .
Cutting the sprue off plastic
injection products for hours on end.
Groups of us doing just that one
task with nippers.
[ your eyes are going s l e e p y .
. . ]
Wish they'd written the job card
adverts like this actualy ! ! !
But all of it was great to be honest
! ! !
And one that I've left out is being
a Cook.
Yummy and great ! ! !
Not forgetting how we all packed up,
even the bosses, and went out the door
with our holiday pay in a thick
brown envelope for the final time each year
for three weeks christmas and
holidays ! ! !
Best moment ever Y A Y Y Y ! ! !
My own pat on the back, means i
never yelled back at the manager or boss . . .
" I am not doing that rubbish !
" like so many i've heard through the years
! ! !
I was just always overjoyed to be
away from my parents and their deadly quiet
house and learning and doing
something with this body and mind to ever care
about stupid things i experienced
next to a few others, doing something is
better than getting fired, making my
new life was way more important ! ! !
Real shame no one ever understood
that about this guy ! ! !
Seriously, get the job done and get
home ! ! !
[ best job is the clean get it done
without hassles and earn your money type job ]
HELPERS . . .
Computer as an Instrument... ?
You can always set one up for live sound out...
Updating or refurbishing your older, or resold
laptops . . .
After installing WinXPsp2, find that models'
downloads online...
Save to ' Purpose Named ' folders the Drivers for
each of these :
Audio Card which may
carry secondary motherboard abilities.
Chipset which may offer combined
usb and other functions.
Graphics Card which may
include record at Video out.
Avoid the many bluetooth, networking drivers...
Dedicate it to the purpose of music...
Idealy StereoMix is available...
Install extra RAM too ! ! !
Music making progs !!!
. . . play !
PEDALS
Beyond the ' build your own '
Electronic Kitsets included instructions . . .
Having a strong overhead light over your project
surface helps you see component values.
Check each component as you go to put them in so
you don't need to re-solder later.
Always turn the circuit board to your seated
position as you solder with the tip.
Avoid speed soldering, make better wetted
connections, so the flux spreads over the joint.
Use a mini flatblade screwdriver to
re-heat and separate a close pair of solder
points.
Avoid setting components off the
board with long wires which can introduce hum.
Add all small components first, large sockets
near the end, and finaly your i.c's.
Use a magnifying glass to browse over your solder
joints before powering up.
Keep any spare coiled solder that came with the
project in your parts box.
Store your instructions sheet safely away for any
repairs in later years.
see: Three
Pedals Project
see: Hobby
Switches
In ALL our lives, please . . .
Give Peace
To The World Around You
. . . so others can make music !
CLOUDS
Giant ears slung forwards...
those
If you're into pareidolia, then have
a look at...
big
15.00 Wednesday 1st June 2022 NZST metvuw
white
...does this not look like a giant bunny wabbit ?
fluffy
...beautiful, and paw, and eye !!!
things
Speaking of cars for a mo . . . '
Avoid These
Tyre Valve Covers
. . . cannot get air into tyres !
Thinnest lightbox for art tracing
and photography . . .
Turn an old 10.1" cracked touchscreen tablet
into a multipurpose light.
It may have a 3.7vdc battery but you can feed it
upto 6vdc 500mA power !
Use for Art tracing, Broad photography lighting,
and Closeup backlighting.
Lower the voltage a little and you can gain
better lighting.
And never point your digital camera at a bright
light.
Others include an inverted ceiling light.
Or even overhead wardrobe lighting.
Not forgeting rail layouts.
...small, thin, light !
. . . not forgetting checking
negatives and transparencies
. . . by the way here's the
strangest guitar i've ever seen
Method : undo all covers and boards,
remove pcb, batt, lcd, ant.
Leave behind white backing plate,
sheet lenses, covers.
Solder external cable into
backlight, close, use.
[ dispose unwanted responsibly ]
Still trying to play a DVD on your
Laptop . . . ?
Here's the names of a few old
goodies that may help you . . .
PowerDVD, WinDVD, MPC-HC, VLC, WMP,
Nero . . .
. . . simply look them up online for
a download !
. . . including any new Codec packs
!
. . . set portable Player to easy
. . . Region ' 0 ' play !
. . . Enjoy !
Smallest Projects . . .
Simply out of interest, i use these
oldstyle Digitor fuse '
case ' as mini Project boxes !
...we can't find them anymore but
make excellent mini pots / circuit holders !
[ ...really really wish they'd bring
them back to jaycar ! ]
...hint hint !
|
{ ...i'll put my own pic' later ! }
{ ...they clip closed ! }
Refurbishing Laptop Notes...
On your way to changing your RTC (realtimeclock)
battery, the Ribbon Cable to the keyboard
when removing can sometimes be connected to a
Removable Socket (m/board), which may be
lifted upwards and away, unlike most which
require horizontal care by unclasping and sliding
out, there's a few that can be a combo of both,
check yours first!
...lift the Socket if you have it !
...example D620 ?
Before it gets too late in my life .
. .
My favourite Eurythmics track is When
Tomorrow Comes
...in her strong beautiful loving
arms !
|
whatever!
. . . actually . . .
Eurythmics, their videos . . .
Listed with my favourite, followed
by how i came upon their sound and so on . . .
Why
Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
Love Is a Stranger
Babys Coming Back
Here Comes The Rain Again
Right By Your Side
I Love You Like A Ball And Chain Live 85
No More I Love You
Thorn In My Side
Would I Lie to You
There Must Be An Angel Playing With My Heart
Dont Ask Me Why
Miracle of Love
Missionary Man
Sisters Are Doin It For Themselves
Angel
Whos That Girl
When Tomorrow Comes
...includes some of the videos of which i'd never
seen or only in passing
...truly entertaining with their views and ideas
...and ending with another favourite
...a l l a b s o l u t e s
...thank you
...both !
Daily computer practices . . .
You catch more flies if you use a
bit of common sense in life . . .
Assign a new piece of ram, close a
Long Open Program and refresh it's existence, so
it flows again . . .
Restart it and continue whatever
your project is !!!
. . . don't just let it grind to a
halt !!!
Artist That Gives !!!
https://graemestevensonart.com/about/
Things we don't realise because
we're still chugging along to great things people
are
still bringing us, even after they sleep. Thank
you so much Graeme, RIP !!!
https://www.outdoorpainter.com/we-will-miss-you-graeme-stevenson/
...such a great spirit and art show
!
...thank you !
jp
Product Ideas . . .
Wish there was some of these around
to buy...
Ever get your headphone cable caught on your
strap front screw ?
That way a cable in the way could slide away
instead !
...like standard screw head covers but deeper !
...pipe cover, but cone shape !
...a rounded dome !
Things i strangely pondered recently
. . .
. . . why do some necks not seem to
align with the body shape . . .
. . . as seen from front-on at a
distance ?
You know i love cats, here's a good
trick guys...
Let your moggy come along and
scratch the top of its head on your chin beard
!!!
...lean over, introduce it, they'll come back !!!
Preponderances.
Railway layouts and changing wheels...
Weren't they so much fun to remove back in the
day !!!
How about if we'd had watch pins in place of
those axles ???
Just a thin flatblade screwdriver to pop them out
!!!
No more breaking the side to remove/insert !!!
Still could be done now, i suppose ?
Find the best thickness !
...not many broken ?
...simply idea !
Albert Hammond When I'm
Gone 1981
Hobby Corner : Repair Your Tools And
$ave.
Very happy long term user found two issues with
latest blue hobby tool. Original colour was
medium blue, one that came after was a dark blue,
latest is a light blue plastic hand casing
with a more angled and inset switch. Read the
following to mend or update...
1) This one bought in 2021
has a fairly course oscillation. Difficult to
hold. Originaly
thought it was the spindle offset in motor,
wrong, is actually the casing. At your own
leisure undo, and remove one side motor 'rubber
padding' only. Leave the other. Shakes now
gone. No more bouncing around inside. Close and
use.
2) The motor it came with
tends to hesitate under the bit load, starting
stopping. Most
likely motor style as same transformer used as
previous, smoothly. At your leisure change
out the motor if prefered to a 'full power on'
version of same type motor, not same series.
Now grind, cut, drill, without sudden stops.
3) Maintenance. Worn front
shaft bearing hole can widen over the years. Use
a thinnish
jewellers s/driver to tap out shaft from
brass/chromed chuck while in vice. Then tap out
bearing from front, collect from inside. Find
better bearing from motor junkbox and tap into
place from inside with same driver. Seat firmly
before packing content back in and closing.
( The 'in vice' means sitting on the
top plates barely holding the outset metal
circle.)
( Intended as holding steady the
downward pressure only.)
Adept, and aptitude, helps you
maintain tools !
Easy!
Flipping Through Olde Books...
Hardcover ' Important People ' by
J.H.Dowd 1934
( with pen pictures by Brenda E. Spender )
Most likely considered to be antiquated by many
in our so called modern age. The beautiful
illustrations evoke their very own particular
memory for each of us out at a beach and rocks
and with others as youngsters. Along with the
short pages of storyline they are a glimpse
into our daily life back through time.
Have a look at a copy if you can find one. Among
my favourites are; Climbers, Horsy Crowd,
Dashers, Days End, Fishing Nets, Diggers, Giant
Steps (our hide and seek), Yachting!,
Lookers-On, A Pony Parley, A Last Look, and page
51 has one that looks like a photo of me
when little.
The reading of the various stories seems funny
even to me, and would have back in the
seventy's too! Each one reflecting how mums and
dads and brothers and sisters lived pieces
of life together.
They were the more innocent but hard money times
while growing up !
Of Important People is all about
children in our families !
Really thankful they wrote and drew this !
A good book !
LIFE
Life after being born, after home.
I could write a library of all i
have experienced.
For all that had come before i
simply couldn't wait to leave.
My soul forever, Frazey Ford
- September Fields the
sweetest voice
Began my life absolutely terrified
of other human beings, the hardest life . . .
I would go on to say ' you couldn't
pay me to go back there and live ' years later.
Moved to the city, downtown where
there was no one, where there was peace and quiet
forever.
We had a no phone landlord, if you
needed police or ambo's you had to walk there,
hard !!!
Living in old buildings alongside
others with similar stories or just passing
through.
. . . and some pretending to stop
off but staying for the rest of their life
. . . a few leaving right there in
their room as i nearly came to be too
. . . eventualy i left, You'll be
back like the rest of us, said the old
These things below remind me of all
those months and years . . .
' The
Lonely City ' : Olivia Laing on urban solitude
and art
The city is where i would begin my
art advertising career
I would just walk and cry for all
this new peace.
I loved the city it was my very best
friend.
Song :
Hollins Ferry, Lonely City
Just simply too many things.
To remember forever.
[ these authors have got it spot on
]
Weary of forever wary, chronic.
Good fresh people don't know.
( sadly, few can find that same sort
of peace for all the policy that chases us humans
daily )
( folks living the normal life will
never know until their soul shows up )
( life should never be that way for
any of us )
( peace always first )
At the moment i like . . . boy &
bear - southern sun
( friendly preview page here, just
click the top one and enjoy hearing a little of
each )
-
Normal.
Blowing into your hands to keep
warm.
Poor is when you can't afford things or go
anywhere.
Broken is when broke forever exists, completely
surpassed poor and you can actually think it
not imagine it, your brain hurts because this is
not normal and you miss everything, it's
how your underclothes have now faded with little
tears completely away and you wear your
jeans tee jacket and boots with religious socks
both to work alongside clean others who can
afford all the very many little things that make
up a liveable life, while wearing them to
bed as well. The rough material rubbing away
parts of your always cold skin, a bit of blood
coming through the surface. And you try to figure
out why those b's had to steal your only
undies out of the washing when they already knew
you were so had it, just that little bit to
do for all those fifty cent coins what a rip off
machine, while trying to figure out how to
make a plaster stick to that skin from getting
all bad, And you wake the next morning
forever remembering how you got here in life,
trying to figure out any kind of legit idea to
get back into the full life you had the first
time around before, but right now how to find
something to eat and then get down there and on
the train to arrive at work on time. You're
shivering no shaking at the cold concrete station
waiting, wishing you had a jumper
underneath. And you smell to others, but your
theory is germs die out over the hours, should
be okay so long as you get a bath, if no one else
pushes you out or makes you rush or
complains about the water you've used. It's the
one set, there are no others to wear. And
someone tears a piece of your clothing but you
find some cotton and an undersized needle to
get through the denim, and you get stared at at
work the next day 'about time you changed into
some newer clothes dude!' a passing comment that
you can't answer, just looking down over
yourself and raising your eyebrowse to them like
a yep i'll get to it, but you're
desperately hoping they'll be too busy tommorrow
to notice nothing about you. All the while
you're trying to figure out how to make that
sixty five dollars get into your landlords
hands because they said it was due but they were
apparently going out tonight and time will
be up and you worry what might happen tommorrow
morning before work, it might be all over,
for real, and then what, you're a headcrash but
others don't get it and saying anything
sounds lame. You walk up to the corner and get a
burger and thickshake and smokes and sit on
some business step downtown feeding your face
because except for a few chips and coke you've
had nothing all day. Then you hear from your dad
that wants to come over and see where you
live, and to be honest you just think i really
really cannot allow him to come see this
after all the years growing up at home with
everything and its just rubbish its completely
beeping rubbish and what if mum wants to come
along with him too. She'd just be so
completely broken and i can't let that happen,
not after all she's been through in her own
times. To see her son like this was not okay with
deeper me. I walk on down the main road in
the cool night air tom sauce still on my mo' the
headlights going by. Sitting at the wharf i
watch the tinkley moonlit water and realize ten
oclock's already and i've got to beepingwell
walk all the way back up with my tired all day
labouring legs and feet. At least i'm not
shaking the food warmed me up enough. Looking at
the shops on the other side heading back i
make myself try and think about what i'll do this
coming staturday and sunday before
monday's work again, or maybe i'll just rest on
the bed all day, stay away from that grumpy
guy upstairs sure he's on top shelf or trips,
wish i had enough for a beer sometime, just
one would be really nice, actually maybe i'll sit
in the sun for a bit out the front porch
on the sunday when it's quiet. How is it that
others are so busy in life, people seem to
have so much to talk to each other about, still
i'm glad i'm not back there. How is it no
one wanted to be likeable or friends after
school, just shut it, really need to stop
thinking, seriously. Yeah i'll sit outside and
think about how i can get onto another job
after this one finishes up. Or maybe i'll finaly
walk into that hopeless telly room where
those others always are, landlord always wonders
why i never watch with the others, what the
beep am i meant to say to that even? Tonight
those two older guys are home and i don't want
to happen what they did to that other dude, just
to my room fast. Sick of me sick of nothing
no life i tried ending but joined up and went
training and came back drunk one night and
started the long road onwards to a better life
for myself, all the screaming and shouting
and caring and learning and finding myself for
the first time. Here i am decades later much
older, just so many many many days of the same
misery back there, making no headway into
anything at all, afraid of tripping myself up
doing all the things the other kids had
assured me i would do, sooner or later, so i
never lived, never lived a day in my life, just
worked and slept. This is the real truth of the
description of my life. Only thing that kept
me outside of anything else is there had to be
something better, if only i could get to know
what that was meant to be. It turned out to be
back in the burbs that i hated, with another
person, doing all the stuff everyone had already
been doing themselves - the great fat
liars. Missed out on so much but had i really,
nope. They'd all come and gone from the world
had kids fought stupid fights with each other
because of some stupid memory from another
time long before - what i would've said if i'd
known - stop wasting your days or nights guys
and girls, 'aint worth it. Live happy instead,
live in peace without stupid stuff in your
heads. Most of all don't have a life like mine
has been, is what i would have said out loud,
but no one would have been listening. Nope, half
would've forgotten me, a quarter would
still hate me for nothing, and the last of them
would be pulling my existence apart, is the
truth of it. I know because i've always measured
my world accurately, no matter what. I can
tell you things people said fifty years ago and
yet i don't actually hold any grudges,
amazing to be honest. Of course they'd tell it
the other way, never mind, can't say anything
if there's always enough to disagree, even with
each other, jeez.
This you may well wonder, but it was still all
alot more peace.
Nothing good would've been for me.
Just plain truth.
[ there's more than one way to lose your life,
doesn't mean dying folks ]
[ its that you all get along no matter what that
keeps you all alive ]
[ i wish i'd had that assurance from all my own
back then folks ]
[ headcrashes do happen, a bad life is had,
that's all ]
[ can't change others views around
you ]
[ 2 0 J P 2 0 ]
-
When the kitchen fan goes POP!!!
Happened to you yet? Then you'll
know about the
ginormous stinky up your nose immediately !!!
IF it's happening right now or after reading this
then
quickly put it out the back door because they
keep on
keeping on stinking the place out and its toxic
!!!
Normaly we all just go and buy another fan but
there's
another way if you need to save money these
days...
IF you're really good with the soldering iron you
could
replace the burned out yellow power capacitor !?
As an electrical hobbiest you'll
know you need to be
mighty careful, starting with choosing the exact
same
part number, literally there's three types for
this.
Literally v1, v2, v3 capacitor, take
a photo with you !
Match it up exactly and solder it well into
place, but before
switching it back on you need to give it a good
cleandown.
The reason it failed was because of all the
usuall cooking
oils floating around the room and landing on and
into
places like the shaft, bearing at the front,
motor inside
via the breathing holes and so on until it's all
entirely
gummed up, and the next time you turn it on it
can't
start spinning-up easily or properly - PUFFF !!!
That is the capacitor exploding
inside and turning molten !!!
That's when you see a cloud of smoke and you need
to get
it and yourself out of there until it's cleared
!!!
After a thorough clean with soap or lightly with
thinners
in metal places, while keeping clear of the
electrics.
Check with multimeter again before switching on
!!!
Stop and buy one if you have
problems !
...Best of luck !!!
Crackers 
Art Of
The Fuse ! ! !
A Celebration Of
Memories...
Crackers Nights Coming
Again Soon ! ! !
Fireworks Night Started
With The Sparklers Doing Pictures . . .
The Red Wrapper . . . Those Little
Grey Fuses . . . That Distinctive Peppery Smokey
Smell . . .
Too late once gone ! Don't
Ban Fireworks ! Ban
Stupid People !
Last Known
Cracker Now Long Gone ! ! !
Art Of The
Fuse - S L O W M O T I O N ! ! !
