Lazy Weekend

I was up really late night being awesome, and I slept until around 2. I woke up and finished up reading William Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist" (1971) and tomorrow I plan on listening to his audio commentary on the film's DVD to learn some things about the book and the film. 

I solved a problem that had been bugging me for a couple days: I was fearful that my turntable was dying, because the past few times I have been listening to music, the sound had gradually dipped down about a half step in tone, making everything sound out of key. I tried it on several albums and after about three minutes, I would hear it dip again. It was then confirmed by pressing the stop and restart button that the song would pick up at its original key and gradually dip down again.  Not realizing I was solving the problem, I moved my turntable back up to on top of my DVD player. What I had done earlier this past week was buy a shelf for my records and use the lower shelf underneath the TV to store my turntable. As soon as I returned the turntable to its original spot on the entertainment center, the dipping of the tone ceased.  I am wondering if it has something to do with the lower shelf being slightly bowed due to the heavy weight of the albums that had occupied the shelves previously. Whatever, it worked! :) Not gonna question it, saves me having to buy a new one...

Today's vinyl picks have been Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" (1967): Record #2, since I had listened to the second side of Record #1 last night as I was laying in bed, eventually falling asleep.  After that, my new vinyl that came in the mail today, The Devil Wears Prada's "With Roots Above and Branches Below" (2009), which I am very glad I purchased. I forgot how much I loved that one. (On a slightly related note, their new album "Dead Throne" is not nearly as good, but I still ended up awarding it a 3.6 out of 5. Very predictable and bland.)

Took a listen to "Homesick" (2009), my favorite A Day to Remember album. and then Devin Townsend's "Physicist" (2000), which has my absolute HevyDevy song on it, "Kingdom." I popped into Neat Neat Neat, looking for the new album by The Gaslight Anthem frontman, called The Horrible Crowes.  Unfortunately, it was out of stock. Hopefully it will be there on Tuesday when I go to pick up the new Primus album (which is FANTASTIC!!) :)

Don't really have anything else to say other than I discovered a bag of Combos that I bought several days ago and completely forgot about. Unopened! Jackpot!!! I have been muchin' on those muthatrukas all day!! :)