At long, long last

Our shelves, as A has noted, have been installed at last - in a marathon 6 hour frenzy of grunting, drilling, wakening the neighbors with an air compressor, shifting, sweating and, overall, smiling. Dave, who built the things, did most of the heavy lifting, and the went into place beautifully. Pictures of the assembled mass will follow

The great thing about it - for the first time since we moved to Chicago, something like 7 years ago - is that all my vinyl is out of the boxes, and up on shelves where I can refer to it. So I can pull out gems like an early Vulgar Boatmen album (about whose central songwriting you must read Mike this week, and consider going to the record release at Schuba's). Or a Rough Trade promo of Youssou N'Dour covering Rubber Band Man.

And for the first time since I left Parlano's self-managed and controlled office space, my O'Reilly titles are out and gathered together for ready reference. Still need to reorganize the Beat/Punk/Situ works (so I can threaten A with them....), but that shall come with use and time.

Life is indeed good.

Next: The Comfy Chair!

Posted by esinclai at July 15, 2003 09:25 PM |