in_the_blue | Well! So there!

I'm sure everybody's sick to pieces about cats and trauma, so I'll talk about something else. Hannah has discovered (gasp!) our record player. For those of you who are too young, a 'record' is a device that Muggles used to use a long time ago whereby a round flat piece of vinyl--into which had been pressed grooves of varying depths and widths--was used to make music. These antiques are hard to come by; they required the use of something called a 'needle' or 'stylus' to interpret the grooves and turn them into music.

It was almost like magic, but the product was flawed. It was easily damaged by heat and exposure to other elements, and had to be used in concert with an eckeltronic device called a 'record player' that was hooked up to a 'stereo.' Survivng specimens of records in good shape are very rare, but we happen to have several boxes containing these ancient artefacts.

Please don't tell the archaeologists.

So, like, the bummer about LPs (another term for 'records') is, like, the needle jumps around on them and makes the song skip. So it's hard to dance when they're on. CDs and MP3s are a lot more foolproof. But there's nothing like the sound of a needle skipping over vinyl to bring back memories of big hair, skinny black jeans, disco, and those party days.