Yeah I am a little afraid to look too closely at the news from the Altadena fire - my best childhood friend just lost his mom, and his dad still lives in Altadena in the house I last saw them in. It'd

In 2024 I bought way less records to keep. Going through my photos from the past year I saw maybe 6 records I was excited about keeping. It ebbs and flows from year to year. Some years I'm hyper focus

I’ll be going again to Tokyo for work.in February. I don’t buy a whole lotta records these days. 

A lot of Australian record stores for the last few years have been taking advantage of the Yen's weakness and been going over there to source records. I'm not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand

I’m around 1500 - 2000 records of various formats. I was buying 10-20 records a month between 2014 - 2018 when I had a weekly gig, which died with COVID. 

Kyoto had only a few shops but I had a good time at Jet Set.

I'm probably around 1500 LPs right now, plus a few hundred Brazilian 7"s. At this point adding a lot more would require either adding a ton of shelves to the living room or moving to another place wit

I went for an X-mas haircut in the city and ended up with these. There is a 2nd hand / antique store that has a room of records and comics and I was instantly greeted by the Issue of Big Daddy I neede

Lego set in like 77 or so and loved Lego even into my early teens… but music and graffiti took over my life in my early 20’s and so my Mom gave all that shit away.. ugh 1st Gen Transformers and OG Le

On my last time there (out of two trips in my life, no balleur) Nagasaki was cool, and we drove up the west coast to Hagi. All that shit ruled. Coastal walks, weird rest stops, not much else. A lot of

Kyoto had only a few shops but I had a good time at Jet Set.

and think about 5 bottles a week in terms of records.  

and think about 5 bottles a week in terms of records.  

Hey Soul Strut, been a long time.  Really glad this place still has it's doors open - and my login still worked!

I found this in a clearance bin over the weekend. It is listed as "hard rock" on Discogs. It goes all over the place. I feel like the band didn't know which direction they wanted to focus on and recor

i can't think of anything i seriously collect anymore (outside of records), but I will still add a movie to my collection if I see something incredible.  mostly down to a lack of time because family a

Graf books are my main other hoarding affliction. Just ordered the new Phase 2 in Italy as an Xmas present to myself. 

It's still growing despite half hearted attempts to purge. Slowed down but the jones never leaves. 

Hi. Been a while. So I stopped digging for rekkids. Yeah, I know, but I moved to a small regional town in Australia, and there ain't none here. But that damn magpie gene runs deep, so I still dig but

Bandcamp has mixtapes! You can filter by format if you're just browsing. I have like four from Bay Area underground mainstay Luke Sick with 12 Man Rambo, series called Mobbulator. I get some of Weapon