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Andre
August 17th, 1999

Do Stuff
I've put the records back up on the shelves and opened some space in the living room. I believe it was Lucy (but I can't find the entry, so maybe it was someone else) who wrote of her experience with lp's and CD's and how audiophiles thought the lp sounded noticeably nicer with all that analog trash in the background. Audiophiles are also big on tube amplifiers. Ever priced a tube amplifier? Gives me heart. If I were still playing music they'd sound better to me on lp than if I'd replaced them with the newer CD versions and sat around not playing them either, giving me reason to feel smug about owning lp's and not having a garage sale. We who live in condominiums at the top of a hill like the better sound, don't you know, particularly those of us who maybe buy a CD every month when we once averaged many lp's a week for years and years. We who pack them with us when we move. I use the idiot rather than the editorial "we" for clarity, of course.

For whatever reason the photographs I've run today and yesterday seem weirdly exposed and out of focus. Beth, at the office. I'm going to have to pay more attention. With the move completed I can now think about getting out and exploring the new neighborhood with a camera. And, again, looking at the last black and white roll, I'm maybe going to have to think about developing my own film. The contact sheets and the negative quality I get from the shop I use down the street seem good, but there's only one way to really be sure what's happening in the darkroom and that's to screw it up yourself. Black and white is no big deal as long as you remain anal about temperature control and development times. And watch the dust. And don't take it to my usual extremes. A couple of plastic developing tanks, a clock and a thermometer. Keep it simple.

No email yet, but I'll get around to it by this weekend. Get some sort of cobbled together connection up with the 28K modem. See how it feels to download some of these graphics I like so much. Maybe it will give me a needed dose of reality, although reality is the least of my interests at the moment. Get up in the morning, do stuff, get home, write the journal, go to bed.


 
The banner photograph was taken at the Oakland City Center on the way to an OATS lunch, Andre presiding. The picture of Beth was taken on another lunch run. We're all pretty much into lunch.

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