Sunday, October 24, 2010

Batteries Not Included

Sony will no longer manufacture the Walkman.

Here's to that portable, shiny, anodized-metal battery-devouring monster and to the summer of 1983; a summer spent hiding from adults instructing me not to play it "so loud". (Pretty sure that a bigger part of the summer was spent begging for money or stealing loose change lying around the house to buy batteries and cassettes. Can music save my mortal soul?)

2 comments:

rushi said...

Totally! I remember going to bed early and hiding under the blanket with the walkman and a mix-tape! Sigh!

So what do you use these days - IPod? Do you listen online and download MP3s (iTunes, etc.)? Do you have a home stereo system as well? (Ouch, too many silly questions. Just curious... or rather being nosy!)

Psst: did you hear about the Moog Guitar? http://www.moogmusic.com/moogguitar/

km said...

So Moog makes guitars now? Didn't know that. Thanks for that link!