Creature of habit
it’ isn’t all new and undiscovered music in my little 110-square-foot hi-fi shrine. In fact, most of the time I’m just endlessly cycling through a handful of recordings. Especially whenever I change something about the layout of listening room (read: frequently, on account of an acute case of audiophilia nervosa), or when I’m sitting in the aftermath of a bad day at work, or when I’m sitting in the after glow of a good day at work, or… well, it doesn’t take much to send me scurrying for my favorites.
If you were Angyl, newly moved in to the Greenhaus, you’d think that Hans’ music collection consists solely of:
- Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
- Side A of Somethin’ Else - Cannonball Adderley
- Side A of In San Francisco - Cannonball Adderley
- Rook - Shearwater
- Side B of Who’s Next - The Who
- Schubert’s Death & The Maiden String Quartet- Lindsay String Quartet
- Beethoven’s Fifth - Carlos Kleiber
- Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Paganninni - Vladimir Ashkenazy
Two observations: Except for KoB and Rook, these are all single-sides or half-CDs. I find myself wanting complete chunks of music that are small enough to fit within the window of time it takes Png to devour a fresh twisty nom-stick.
Also, except for the three classical selections, they’re all on vinyl. I’m sure that if I could get the rest on LP, I would certainly do so.
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