This Is Your Brain on Music

Sean and I went to "The Power Center" in T-Bay to look for some stereo equipment.  We have a relatively decent turntable, but we needed speakers and a receiver in order to use said turntable.  And we needed to figure out how to get the friggin weiner dog off it!  Nothing a little windex couldn't take care of.

The moment we walked in the door, Sean was pounced upon by a salesman who spoke some form of audiophile language that left us both stunned and perplexed.  Well, he left Sean stunned and perplexed - I feigned the bored-girlfriend-who-is-mad-we're-spending-time-in-a-stereo-store-when-we-could-be-shopping-at-le-chateau role so that he could use me as an excuse to make a quick escape. 



The receivers he showed Sean were way too complicated for what we were trying to do - seriously - some of the units had a 10x40 grid of holes and nightmares on the back.  What fresh hell is that?

After our failed attempt at The Power Center, we went to our favourite store, Jim & Crystal's Basement Giveaway Factory, and picked up a working receiver and some speakers from the in-laws.  The system works perfectly and it has only 5 holes on the back.  Ahhhh - the good old days.

Our vinyl collection is weighted heavily with Fleetwood Mac and Elvis Costello albums, but we also have Feargul Sharkey and Huey Lewis and The News in there to shitty it up.

Who am I kidding?  I love Huey Lewis and The News and anyone who disagrees with me can go listen to The Captain & Tenille (which we also have in our collection).



Check out "The Captain"s eyes in this photo!  Either he just came back from the optometrist with dialated eyes or the Captain has been smoking too much rope on his ship, if you know what I mean!  And what I mean is smoking weed in case you didn't get my hemp rope reference.