I have a typewriter: the inaugural blog

I have a typewriter. I got it for my thirieth birtday. I sit here using a brand new laptop with this fancy new opporating system, and all I'd rather be doing is typing on my typewriter. I'd continue a story I've started on it appropriately called, "The typewriter." The first line of the typewriter is "I have a typewriter. I got it for my..." You get the picture. This is not a new thing, this reverting backwards. A couple years ago when everyone was getting ipods, I got a record player--an old-school recrod player. It's from 1968 and is a beautiful piece of craftmanship. The kind you don't see these days. I got a record player because I wanted to begin buying records with the idea that some music can just sound better rugged. With the advent of the CD, the goal in listening habits was to have crystal-clear sound. And although this is something I enjoy when listening to complex music with many layers, such as Radiohead or the Arcade Fire; when I'm listening to other kinds of music, I want to hear it the way it was meant to be heard. The Rolling Stones and Johnny Cash didn't record music with the intention that one day there'd be new technology where you could hear a pin drop in the studio while recording. They recorded it knowing it was going to sound scratchy and deep. And let me tell ya, the Rolling Stones and Johnny Cash both sound a million times better on vinyl than any other kind of recordings. If you don't believe me you can find out for yourself. Come over sometime. I'll pour you a glass of whiskey. We can smoke cigarettes and listen to Tom Waits. On vinyl.