What Moving Requires
Feb. 24th, 2006 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiPacking, and also, selling. I've put a bunch of things up on eBay - fifty percent of whatever comes in from the items' sale will go to FictionAlley's Katie O'Brien Scholarship Fund - we're also taking applications for the scholarships now, too, through the next two months, so we're working on funding the scholarships for 2009 and beyond.
a-ha, Genesis, Journey & Julian Lennon concert programs, Live Aid stuff, old Rolling Stone issues, and some cool 1984 Olympic stuff, as well as a few Les Miz promo photos from 1991. I'm wondering how the sales are going to go - I've only ever sold I think one thing on eBay - a 1994 Humphrey the Camel which I sold back during the craze in 1998 for over seven hundred dollars - it basically was the down payment on a car. Of course, now, they're going for at most, $250. I am so amused by the marketplace sometimes.
In related news, I was devestated when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jlh told me that Smash Hits wasn't going to be published anymore. As I told her yesterday, whippersnappers these days don't know how good they have it. Why, in MY day, we had to *purchase* Star Hits at a newsstand, then find the Record Runner ad, and SEND them a CHECK through the POSTAL MAIL, and if we were LUCKY, three to five weeks later, our copy of the new DURAN DURAN or WHAM or NIK KERSHAW album would arrive, and they were a RECORD store so you couldn't even get them to send you a CASSETTE of Now That's What I Call Music 4! And if you could DRIVE, you'd have to drive eighteen miles or so, UPHILL BOTH WAYS (a bit) to find an import record store where you MIGHT be able to buy a very early CD of the PET SHOP BOYS but more likely you'd end up with yet another WET WET WET single.
I was, however, very pleased to see that Record Runner, at least, is still around, and still selling the Adam Ant and Spandau Ballet and Swing Out Sister necessities that one really needs.
Now, I have to go through my collection of 45s...
a-ha, Genesis, Journey & Julian Lennon concert programs, Live Aid stuff, old Rolling Stone issues, and some cool 1984 Olympic stuff, as well as a few Les Miz promo photos from 1991. I'm wondering how the sales are going to go - I've only ever sold I think one thing on eBay - a 1994 Humphrey the Camel which I sold back during the craze in 1998 for over seven hundred dollars - it basically was the down payment on a car. Of course, now, they're going for at most, $250. I am so amused by the marketplace sometimes.
In related news, I was devestated when
jlh told me that Smash Hits wasn't going to be published anymore. As I told her yesterday, whippersnappers these days don't know how good they have it. Why, in MY day, we had to *purchase* Star Hits at a newsstand, then find the Record Runner ad, and SEND them a CHECK through the POSTAL MAIL, and if we were LUCKY, three to five weeks later, our copy of the new DURAN DURAN or WHAM or NIK KERSHAW album would arrive, and they were a RECORD store so you couldn't even get them to send you a CASSETTE of Now That's What I Call Music 4! And if you could DRIVE, you'd have to drive eighteen miles or so, UPHILL BOTH WAYS (a bit) to find an import record store where you MIGHT be able to buy a very early CD of the PET SHOP BOYS but more likely you'd end up with yet another WET WET WET single. I was, however, very pleased to see that Record Runner, at least, is still around, and still selling the Adam Ant and Spandau Ballet and Swing Out Sister necessities that one really needs.
Now, I have to go through my collection of 45s...
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Date: 2006-02-24 09:08 pm (UTC)We'd only be ungrateful if we knew. Or laugh while we download music on our computers.
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Date: 2006-02-24 09:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-24 09:33 pm (UTC)*raises eyebrows* Are we telling fibs? Now, if you had said you had to fight your way through dementors...both ways...I might have believed that. ;)
And I remember walking a canal...under the highway...and then five miles on a busy road...to get to a RECORD store...to get the latest ELO album...
And who are these... "Duran Duran" is it? Is that some rap group???
*Listening to anything after 1974 is uncool!* ;)
45s? Do you just play your 78s at a slower speed? Unfortunately, my Victrola doesn't play even 78s. Waaaaaaaaaaaaa! ;)
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Date: 2006-02-24 09:40 pm (UTC)Oh I loved that magazine so much... Bold Type was my favorite.
*happy memories of teenybopping*
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Date: 2006-02-24 10:35 pm (UTC)My favorite were the sarcastic little comments from the "editors" like, [lipstick color ed.] etc. The little comments on TWOP from Wing Chun and Sars remind me of that.
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Date: 2006-02-25 07:03 am (UTC)Oh, the memories....
love, lore
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