Carl Cravens @CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz

You ever do this thing where "everyone" recommends a certain brand, but nobody can tell you why they are measurably better than the cheaper competitor, so you buy the cheaper one not because they're cheaper, but because you don't want to blindly follow the crowd, and suspect the more expensive one costs more because the market will bear it, not because they cost more to manufacture? (poly record sleeves in this case)

Picked up The Moody Blues' _The Other Side of Life_ on Saturday... I knew a couple songs on it but the whole thing has a great feel. Another great addition to my 80's vinyl collection.

Just used the last of my 50-pack of LP inner sleeves. :o

And I haven't sleeved all 5 records I got on the weekend.

Went to the record store for the first time on Saturday. (Vaccinated and masked up.)
Amazing, I found an early-pressing Styx' _Paradise Theater_ in VG+ condition for $6. Listening to it now and it's the 1980's again.
Hard to be disappointed at finding the one record I really wanted in superb condition on my first outing, but this has the Styx logo laser etch. The one I had in HS had the rarer Paradise Theater laser etch. I think I still need to own that one.

Was Xanadu really so bad?
Is it only carried by the amazing music and my teenage crush on Olivia Newton-John, and I just can't see how terrible it was?

Wondering how many songs directly reference MTV.

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, a Will Farrell romcom on Netflix, was surprisingly charming. It was silly, but not over the top farce like Farrell can sometimes be. It's not billed as a romance, but that's its real heart. Some reviewers seem to think it should have been more farcical, with non-stop laughs, but I think that would have ruined it.

What interests me about this is people at work say "ackle" (like cackle) and I'd never heard it before. Kind of like the number of people who say "tack" instead of "dash"... which apparently is a navy thing, and we had a handful of ex-Navy in the company for awhile and it rubbed off.

There's a reason Stranger Things was set in the 80's, and nostalgia wasn't the only driver... modern communication can ruin mystery and suspense, and if the kids had all had cell phones, it would have been a different story.

I used to watch old movies and think, "Huh, I wonder what it was like to live when things were like that." Now days I watch old movies and think, "Yeah, I remember when things were like that."

Things that have really changed... smoking in public, telephones, and airport security.

Bodies are a natural product. Some imperfections may occur.

Struggling with that "today is Friday" feeling on Wednesday.
I've had this "off by one day" thing going on the entire year, probably because I've lost most of the indicators of what day of the week it is (I used to commute to the office MWF). But this week is the worst, as I felt like Monday was Thursday and it's been downhill from there.

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