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So today my heart broke a little. But then it got all fixed again. I visited my high school art teacher today, and she had out a record player and a stack of vinyls. As I was about to stick one on a girl from the club that was going on in the classroom asks what "a-side B-side" meant on the records. So I explain that it is the same as on a cassette, simply the next set of songs.

and then she answers with a question that lead into an entire conversation that through me into the darkest depths of despair at the realizationt hat I, am getting old. She asks:

"What is a cassette?"

"It's like a vhs but for music and it is double sided."

"VHS?"

*points to vhs in classroom"

"OH! The chunky things! OH WAIT Cassettes I have heard of those! Those are reaally oold. but what are these?"

insert the continued slow crashing of glass to represent my heart

"v-vinyls. Records"

This went on for a little while, ansd I came to wonder how she could possibly not know these things. Being in highschool and growing up in the nineties, you'd think that there would be enough time to be introduced to these things via the media. Photos, movies, friggin, EVERYTHING references these wonderful inventions at some point.

And it occurred to me she was only three years younger than me.

And then it occured to me that I have never heard a record player.

I spent the rest of my visit playing Beatles, The Who, No Doubt, and some random current band. Adhesive applied. Love reaquired. Band-aid effective. Mind. Blown.

I want one.

Desperatelty.




(in her defense she was a really nice and creative girl. Just ...misinformed)
  • Listening to: I think my grandparetns are watching Chuck
  • Reading: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Watching: time fly by
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:iconmelodicmadness:
~MelodicMadness Nov 30, 2010  Student General Artist
...I feel really old now. I have about a hundred records... and I still have all my Disney and cartoon VHS.

But, still. That's so sad. How does she not know any of those?
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~fly-tiger Dec 1, 2010   General Artist
magic. Magic and wonder.
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~SteamPunk-Anime Nov 30, 2010  Student Filmographer
WAIT WAIT WAIT I'M ONLY TWO YEARS YOUNGER THAN YOU AND I KNOW WHAT THOSE ARE!..... what even..... I have a cabinet full of VHS and cassettes
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~Karurie Nov 30, 2010  Professional Filmographer
No offense but she sounds like a 'tard. I'm the same age as you and I use vinyl and occasionally I use VHS

COME TO MY HOUSE AND YOU CAN LISTEN TO MIIIIIIIIIIIINE

I love record players but I hate getting up to flip the damn thing and it sucks when you have to buy a new needle but besides that they're AWESOME. Idk where you'd get one though, go to some old guy's estate sale or something.
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:icontwitchiness:
woooow, that sucks

...i feel old now -flop-, oh btw i think i found something that seems like your humor |D [link] and this....this is just cuuuuuute [link]
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