Listening To Records Pillows

"I love the popping sounds on old vinyl LPs..."

"Midtown Vinyl. Vintage albums + EPs. Midtown Ink. Vintage books + newspapers."

At the Goldilocks Music Store albums are labeled: 'Too Many Notes,' 'Too Few Notes,' 'Too loud,' 'Too Soft,' and 'Just Right.'

"Sorry sir, if you take the record player, you must take the dog."

"Thank you for letting me listen to my oldies. Let's start with some Jimi Hendrix."

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

Audio Books

"I only like their bad albums – the good ones are too commercial."

Gramophone dreams of mp3 player.

Junk art/ food/ tv/ music/ amusements/ novels/ views/ life.

I can hear a podcast of yesterday's sea.

"Still Undecided Political Blocs"

"New studies show that the so-called 'lucky man' made popular by the prog-rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer was, in fact, just very well-connected."

Musical genres

"Just play the hit single, then you can do the experimental track."

Listening to Coldplay.

'Teenage Beethoven.'

Couple sharing earbuds.

An amplified harp

"Brat"

Easy & Hard Listening Rock Radio.

'And I say he makes us look bad when he rides around listening to those books.'

'Howard can't come to the phone now. He's standing by for a major concert announcement.'

Not-so-easy listening...

"I've been invited to two different thanksgivings...One with family, one with friends, which one do I go to?"

"You're close, but you're not the record. The record for one family in one booth—all from out of state, each ordering a complete breakfast—was set in 1978, with fifteen."

'There you go again - trying to solve my problems. I am not asking you to do that. I just want you to listen to me.'

"Go ahead. Tell me your troubles. I promise to say 'Awww' in all the right places."

"Bah! in my day bands knew how to play their computers properly. Like Kraftwerk"

Psychiatrist with bartending diploma

Gramaphone Man.

David Lynch

"I feel like my emotional baggage is permanently stuck on the luggage carousel."

"Virginia Woolf meets 'Car Talk.'"

'He's revisiting his childhood.'