I am now officially in the record cleaning business. For the very first time ever in years and years and years of record collecting I have purchased a proper vinyl cleaning gear.
I got AUDIO-TECHNICA cleaner, the better one with the indicator and this is the one that’s good for wet and dry cleaning. Also the Chris Alpino recommended AUDIOQUEST brush. Very boss.
I am looking forward to my clean records!
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Tazuko-san’s son, Taiyo and daughter, Kokoro were in the school musical about the bad witch who wanted to annihilate all the children in the city. She was plotting to kidnap all the kids during the New Moon Festival and put a blame on two orphaned sisters who wondered into town. Pretty nasty turn of events. Needless to say the orphans had their own plans put into action. With the help of an angel chappy and possibly zee Germans they managed to turn the witch’s 3 little helpers against her. Then, with the help of the rest of the kids, they completely obliterated the old tart, all of that while singing and sync dancing. Very boss performance. It was Taiyo’s second time as he did the last year’s musical as well so he’s now almost a pro but for Kokoro chan it was a stage debut!! So, Tazuko-san mailed us the tickets along with an awesome letter from Kokoro-chan. She wrote me that she practiced really hard and even though she has no speaking part she will be dancing a lot so I should come to see her. So cute!!
After the musical we hung out at the big shopping center in Minami Osawa. Lots of summer sale discounts. I snatched a shirt and one of those knitted ties. Very cool. This one goes out to Boardman and his wife :) I hung out with my friend Yuyu the other day. She’s from Peking aka Beijing. She’s also a real punk. With mohawk, spiderwebs, studs, Doc Martens and all. I was injecting myself with my daily dosage of the google reader to catch up on what’s up with my mates and here’s what I found. Murakami? Yes. Stockings? Yes.
I read all of these books.. London days… I don’t know about the USA but in Europe, back when FLOORPUNCH were still around, there was this big “controversy” that they are this and that, that they eat meat, that they gamble, that Porter has an IQ of a monkey and whatever the fuck else all of them politically minded “scensters” were saying. Oh, well.. who gives a fuck. Bottom line is Zusi and Zev have got to be one of the illest dudes on the planet and not all the bands have to be all about Freedom for Palestine.. Goal Line Stand Demo Tape Nobody knows how many were made Division One Champs 1st press, gold vinyl #44/88 1st press, black vinyl / 900 2nd press, red vinyl #177/200 2nd press, blue vinyl / 800 3rd press, black vinyl, yellow labels, green lettering sleeve / 925 After the 3rd pressing all of the subsequent presses came with this JUDGE rip off cover 3rd press, black vinyl, yellow labels, JUDGE rip off sleeve #41/75 4th press, Euro Tour, JUDGE rip off sleeve #292/300 5th and final pressing, white vinyl, JUDGE rip off sleeve #9/100 Twin Killing Test press / 10 Clear vinyl / 300 Black vinyl Fast Times At The Jersey Shore White vinyl / 98 Green vinyl / 300 Black vinyl New Jersey Double LP Test press #7/16 Pre-release. and some aren’t You can only tell if you look at the back of the cover. Most of the numbered copies were sold in Europe. The remaining, unnumbered copies were sold at gigs in the US. The actual pressing was released a long while after the Euro tour Tiger stripe vinyl / 303 Vegas gold vinyl / 599 Clear vinyl / 1009 BONUS 1* Final Mosh shirt, size M BONUS 2* Poster bonanza! Here’s my #36/88 2 years on and dudes are screening posters like crazy!! Stelton Church Dec 19 2009 silkscreened poster green #62/120 Stelton Church Jan 16 2010 silkscreened poster red #24/46 Stelton Church Jan 16 2010 silkscreened poster blue #147/150 Our best friends Seba and Ania who came to hang with us in Tokyo and who we later visited in Taiwan are now living back in the motherland and are expecting a baby boy (due to arrive in Oct!). Believe it or not but when I first heard the JUDGE NYC EP it took me a long while to get used to Mike’s version of the Warriors. After listening to the original track for so many years the “new” version seemed like an utter fucking rubbish. Fast forward, close to 20 years later and I still love and listen to regularly to both records (Blitz and Judge) but each time I play the original version of that song now it seems slow, bland and weak when compared with Ferraro’s powerful delivery. Anyway, what I really am trying to say here that next to The Partisans LP, Voice of a Generations is definitely the best record to ever come out on the NO FUTURE. Possibly one of the best records to ever come out of the UK in the 80s. BLITZ BLITZ Promo version. These came with white SAMPLE COPY/NOT FOR SALE labels. VAP sent them out to the radio stations and magazines for review prior to the general release. Regular pressing came with the normal VAP green labels: I found this at Disk Union today. Funny enough I sold this record TWICE in the past 3 weeks. 1st time on eBay but the guy said he wanted to return it because he expected Zack/Vic Inside Out and got something he never heard of. So I gave him a refund and sold it again on my limited pressing page The one I found just now looks as if it was brand new and some genius at Disk Union marked it with the following comment: Funny enough there were only 2 pressings of this and the 2nd one was marked with words NY on the cover to distinguish from Zack’s Inside Out. This makes it 1st press on one of the two limited colours (the other one was blue). Great score for very little money. This record must love me because each time I get rid of it it keeps coming back.
Or so I expected. The Japanese have just lost to the Dutch and one would expect tragedy and occasional violence. Strangely enough loosing at football is just another reason to cheer and have a good time. If I didn’t know I would have thought they’d won!
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