He has some good points. On a somewhat related note, anyone familiar with the phenomenon of Out of Phase Stereo (OOPS)? I discovered it by accident years ago when my Walkman headphones used to short out. It amounts to rearranging the 4 wires of the left and right speaker channels so that any audio elements that were mixed to be only heard on the left or right channel are heard very prominently. Like if a piano was mixed to only come out the left speaker you would hear it very clearly when listening to the song with OOPS. It usually results in a dull mono mix of most songs with the vocals way off in the background but occasionally you will hear an instrument track that you never really noticed was there. I can achieve this effect by pulling my iPod headphones partway. Google "out of phase stereo" for a website that talks more about it.

The only good thing to come out of Japan since the Walkman.

wow.
give me the bud drivers name so i can go kick him in the balls.
this story brought back memories of a personal nature.
my first day of kindergarten.exciting and new and not a tad bit intimidating but i got on the wrong bus going home from school.
i remember trying so hard to see a recognizable landmark and the more kids got off the bus the higher my anxiety.
needless to say,by the time i was the last kid i was producing some pretty impressive snot bubbles because by then i was petrified that i was never gonna make it home and i was so scared.
and do you know what that bus driver did?
sat me right behind her and drove to every ray street in my area.even gave me a lolipop and got me to smile.she made it ok..she was gonna get me home.when i finally recognized my street this bus driver took it one step further and drove me right to my driveway.

you know,maybe in this day an age kids have cell phones and can memorize their address and phone number,whip out an ipod and check google maps but when it all comes down to it...its about community.what this bus driver did was fucking WRONG.i dont care about procedure,rules or regulations..you dont push a scared 5 yr old off your bus because he is unsure where he is at...EVER.what you DO is do whatever you can to get that kid home and rules be damned.so what if you get reprimanded?who cares if you have to listen to a lecture about "waste" and "productivity time".you did what was RIGHT.
i have watched too many people,parents mainly,who have been scared into boogeyman syndrome.that somehow there is a pedophile in every other house just waitin to bugger their child and every other house has a rapist/burglar watching your every move.the fact of the matter is:most people are decent and are not looking to bugger little johnny nor do they covet your "vintage" sony walkman,they are people just like you and i.which one of us would see a hysterical little kid lost and afraid and NOT try to help?
conclusion:the bus driver is a righteous FUCK.may he be raped with a razor blade dildo.

In my young and geeky days I found a love for electronic music. First with Vangelis and Tangerine Dream.. then one day a girl from school handed me a walkman playing skinny puppy's assimilate and it was all uphill from there... upvote.

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>> ^always:
I purchased The Downward Spiral for the first time in the summer of 1996, when I was thirteen. It was on audio cassette. I would listen to it on my Sony Walkman headphones in the dark after bedtime. Sometimes I would get so scared I'd have to turn it off without making it through both sides all the way to "Hurt." I hadn't ever taken church that seriously, and hearing Trent snarl "god is dead" just seemed to affirm my growing suspicions. I discovered a darkness in myself that summer, a darkness that remains with me to this day. I've since purchased it over a dozen times to give as a gift to friends or to replace my copy which had worn out

There it is. Fan boy gush gush. Hate if you want.


I can relate to your story, except that I was listening to Emperor's "In the Nightside Eclipse" during a bloodletting orgy with a blindfold on.

I purchased The Downward Spiral for the first time in the summer of 1996, when I was thirteen. It was on audio cassette. I would listen to it on my Sony Walkman headphones in the dark after bedtime. Sometimes I would get so scared I'd have to turn it off without making it through both sides all the way to "Hurt." I hadn't ever taken church that seriously, and hearing Trent snarl "god is dead" just seemed to affirm my growing suspicions. I discovered a darkness in myself that summer, a darkness that remains with me to this day. I've since purchased it over a dozen times to give as a gift to friends or to replace my copy which had worn out



There it is. Fan boy gush gush. Hate if you want.

When I was young I thought the Walkman was a vibrator, having never seen one at the time. It seems a lot less edgy now.

My father listened to CCR religously in the car and on boating/hunting trips. He would bring a walkman and little portable battery-powered speakers, and I would experience the haunting beauty of listening to CCR on the arctic tundra with nary another soul within 100 kilometers.

I would have saved my powerpoint for some deserving probie, but I couldn't resist. Hunky Dory was my favorite cassette during the Walkman years.

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Thanks and happy easter

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*promote

Man - a few years back i had a real thing against apple so instead of the Sony equivalent of an ipod.

From the 'inventors' of the walkman - the apt named Sony "NW-HD5"

What a fucking piece of shit. Hard to use and most importantly totally reliant on "Sony Sonic Stage" software. The most buggy shit software i've ever had the sufferance to use. Try to load more than 5 songs - it crashes.

Damn you Sony! you deserve every billion dollar profit loss you are suffering.

Funny story: My little brother, my girlfriend and I have a RockBand group (he drums, she guitars, I sings) and it's a lot of fun. The day the Nirvana pack came out, he asked if he could print out some tab on my CPU and it turned out to be the bass tab for this song (he also plays real guitar and bass). I was like, "Oh, trying to learn the new RockBand DLC?" and he had no idea that the nirvana pack was out, just cosmic coincidence.

This song means a lot to me, at about 11 or 12 this album was on permanent rotation on my Walkman, notably during a camping trip our family took. I still remember proudly wearing my Batman Returns hat with it's holographic tag still attached, trying to impress my old role model: my cousin; and my new role model, my new step-brother. I doubt I impressed anyone, but the three of us roamed the campgrounds, kings of the world. And for that one weekend in the woods I felt like I was on the same level as they were. Blasting Nevermind across the campgrounds, pissing off anyone within earshot. Male bonding at its finest.

This song was my realization that I would forever be showing my non-conformity by conforming.

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Truth - covered in security
I can't let you smother me
I'd Like to, but it couldn't work
Trading off, taking turns
Don't regret a thing
And I've got this friend, you see
Who makes me feel and I
Wanted more than I could steal
I'll arrest myself, I'll wear a shield
I'll go outta my way to prove I still
Smell her on you

Don't - tell me what I wanna hear
Afraid of never knowing fear
Experience anything you need
I'll keep fighting jealousy
'til it's fucking gone

And I've got this friend, you see
Who makes me feel and I
Wanted more than I could steal
I'll arrest myself, I'll wear a shield
I'll go outta my way to prove I still
Smell her on you

Truth - covered in security
I can't let you smother me
Like to but it couldn't work
Trading off, taking turns
Don't regret a thing
And I've got this friend, you see
Who makes me feel and I
Wanted more than I could steal
I'll arrest myself, I'll wear a shield
I'll go outta my way to make you a deal
We've made a pact to learn from who
And ever we want without new rules
We'll share what's lost and what we grew
They'll go out of their way
To prove they still

Smell her on you
They still, Smell her on you
Smell her on you
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Longest post I'll ever post, promise.

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Takes me back to my series one Walkman - man nostalgia's a sticky trap.

>> ^xgabex:
Am I the only one who uses a good number of the functions on my cell phone? Amongst other things, it serves as a quick and dirty camera, mp3 player (it's one of those Walkman-branded Sony Ericsson ones, so that's kind of its purpose, but I digress), alarm, calendar, I use text messages as well as the occasional picture message, and so on.


You've probably named the most commonly used aspects of mobile phones, but there are just so many more that are crammed on nowadays that I would doubt 5% of consumers use.

I find the issue is, people inevitably assume that a multi-faceted electronics device is as good as the individual components bought seperately, which is really just not the case. Camera on phones are far better nowadays, mostly due to the fall in price of digital cameras, but when they initially appeared they were truly absymal. Nowadays you see every Nokia/Motorola/S-E and their dog pushing their integrated digital audio players, but compared to dedicated units they again sound pretty deplorable. I mean, try using anything other than earbuds with them, or slightly less efficient higher ohm rated headphones, they'll just sound crippled.

Not to mention much of the time they'll charge you more for all the features combined as opposed to buying seperately, mostly due to the looks premium. I mean you could probably argue that some would prefer a compact unit, but when the additionally functionality crammed on is sub-standard, that's a bit rich.

Then again, mobile phones are after all fashion accessories anyway, much of what I say above is pretty negligence but I just hate to see this insidious up-selling. It's kind of like department stores pedalling off 2,000/3,000 dollar desktop PCs to consumers for word processing and basic internet/email use. Hell, I'm sure I could easily track down new individual components and a monitor that would perfectly capable for that job at $500 or less.

Anyway /rant off.

Am I the only one who uses a good number of the functions on my cell phone? Amongst other things, it serves as a quick and dirty camera, mp3 player (it's one of those Walkman-branded Sony Ericsson ones, so that's kind of its purpose, but I digress), alarm, calendar, I use text messages as well as the occasional picture message, and so on.