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My Decade’s Better Than Your Decade…

September 30, 2009 in Blogging, Internet, Movies, Music, TV, Technology by faltarego | 1 comment

Being current is not always all it's cracked up to be. It's hard work being current. You always have to stay on top of things, seek out the newest, latest, and greatest, and then grab hold of it and make it your own before someone else does.

Yes, I'm talking about blogging. And this particular blog, the one you're reading right now, this little chunk of the web claimed by yours truly, is anything but current. As a matter of fact, it's completely retro.

Well, no, that's not entirely true. I'm running the latest version of WordPress on a site hosted by HostPapa, who are running the lastest and greatest versions of Apache, PHP, and MySQL. But as for the rest of it, well, retro all the way, baby.

The images on my pages are all retro technology. I'm running Windows XP Home edition on my very old HP Pavilion 522c. And I'm not exactly fresh and young myself (though I can be quite immature sometimes). And I really like talking and writing about stuff that happened, well, a loooong time ago. Read the rest of this entry »

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Ode to The Alan Parsons Project

September 8, 2009 in Music by faltarego | No comments

In keeping with the theme I started last week (though I guess it's not really a theme if I've only done it once… hmmm…), I'm going to take another trip down memory lane and dust off some of the tunes I loved back in the day. I'm not going to say which day. You'll just have to guess.

As a big fan of rock instruments with orchestral backing, it was only a matter of time before someone pointed me in the direction of The Alan Parsons Project. I think it might actually have been a really cute staff member at a local record store (yes, they were still called record stores back then), but then, my memory could be fuzzy. I might have just picked it out all on my own.

The first album of the Project's I picked up was Pyramid, which was actually their third album. As I recall, I put it on the turntable and was rather wowed to discover that they really wanted their vocalists to be anonymous; the vocal pitch had been raised to the point where it almost sounded sped up.

Well, this was before the advent of the term "epic fail", but it would have applied. I discovered very quickly that I had my turntable running at 45rpm when it should have been 33.33rpm. My introduction to Alan Parsons had been officially compromised. The group didn't sound nearly so avant-garde once I'd set the turntable to the correct speed. Read the rest of this entry »

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