The Big Green House

Thursday, January 01, 2004

 

Terms of psychic warfare

Nothing is ever simple. Due to a language gap/mix-up in communications, the landlord at The Big Green House thought that we had A) skipped on our last month’s rent and B) completely vacated and cleaned the place. The truth, in turn, is that A) we did in fact pay first and last when we signed the original lease, and B) we will have the last of our things out by the end of the weekend, depending on the snow situation; clean-up should be done by the end of next week, I think. This will give him plenty of time to rent it out again before our tenancy officially ends on January 26.

*sigh*

We thought that this would be a trouble-free, painless move. We should have known better. Soon, however, our days of dealing with landlords will be at an end. Yay.

On the other hand, if we hadn’t been moving I probably wouldn’t have come across my beloved cassette of Husker Du’s New Day Rising today. It’s a pre-recorded job from back in the day, so the sound quality leaves a lot to be desired. Then again, with a band like Husker Du pristine sound quality isn’t really necessary. Some of the tunes are seemingly undifferentiated walls of very loud guitar frenzy. That’s what attracted me to the band in the first place.

I’m glad to have the cassette again, although it may not be long for this world. I suspect that the tape itself is worn fairly thin by now. Back when I was still acting, I used to throw it on my walkman while applying my makeup as a sort of sonic energy booster. Side one was especially good in this respect - “New Day Rising” into “The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill” into “I Apologize” got my mind going, just as my vocal warm-ups did for my voice. I don’t know if it did anything for the quality of my acting, but I always felt better for listening to it.

bmarkey 1/01/2004 08:59:00 PM