Dashboard Mary
May. 3rd, 2005 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I've had a tape for almost 20 years that the Hula Rat put together for me, back when she was oh-so-keen on Wall of Voodoo & Stan Ridgway. It's called 'The Dashboard Mary Collection' from an independent literary magazine she tried to run for awhile. Ah, the days of our youth - Dashboard Mary, freeway shootings, TCBY's frozen yogurt, the Glendora Library. Yup, we were living dangerously, I tell ya. So anyway, since I bought this computer I've been trying to figure out how to tape music from my stereo onto my computer so I could burn a CD from it, specifically for that tape. I nagged & nagged Ann soooo bad for a copy after listening to hers every time we went out together. I think it was 'Leroy' by the Fibonaccis that did it for me. I know eventually it's going to break or something, and I will be devastated, especially since I can't seem to rip like, 5 or 6 songs online from any source, and getting the actual CD's are nigh impossible anymore. Especially trying to find 'Paintwork' by The Fall. I had to leave it off for now because it's pretty much non-existant & I taped over that part of the tape because 20 years ago, the song really annoyed me. Anyway, now I can play the CD's over & over again & not worry about a frail piece of plastic that will get eaten by a ravenous tape deck somewhere along the line.
After arguing w/Rob for a good 2 hrs. I finally obtained the correct splitter to hook the stereo to the 'Line-In' hole in the computer, downloaded a program called Music Match, and voila - a whole new world of possibilities. I can finally get rid of all these recorded-from-radio tapes I've been hauling around for years & years. Supposedly, MusicMatch will recognize the track-breaks on a commercial music tape & will split the tracks on the computer, but I had to manually sit there w/Dashboard Mary, just like trying to record tape-to-tape w/out including all the pauses. The music is relatively clear for a 20-year old tape.
And now that I've figured out how to hook a stereo to my computer & actually get it to play music through my computer, a VCR shouldn't be so scary. As long as Rob unhooks the VCR for me, because we've got this house wired up like NASA w/the TV, VCR, DVD player, my computer, all the surround-sound speakers, etc. It's kind of intimidating.
In other news, Miranda popped a boy out tonight. She sounded pretty lively when I talked to her on the phone - I don't think the drugs have worn off yet.
After arguing w/Rob for a good 2 hrs. I finally obtained the correct splitter to hook the stereo to the 'Line-In' hole in the computer, downloaded a program called Music Match, and voila - a whole new world of possibilities. I can finally get rid of all these recorded-from-radio tapes I've been hauling around for years & years. Supposedly, MusicMatch will recognize the track-breaks on a commercial music tape & will split the tracks on the computer, but I had to manually sit there w/Dashboard Mary, just like trying to record tape-to-tape w/out including all the pauses. The music is relatively clear for a 20-year old tape.
And now that I've figured out how to hook a stereo to my computer & actually get it to play music through my computer, a VCR shouldn't be so scary. As long as Rob unhooks the VCR for me, because we've got this house wired up like NASA w/the TV, VCR, DVD player, my computer, all the surround-sound speakers, etc. It's kind of intimidating.
In other news, Miranda popped a boy out tonight. She sounded pretty lively when I talked to her on the phone - I don't think the drugs have worn off yet.
