Ta da! New video. Sorry I took a week. Oh, this one was filmed last night. And edited last night. God I hate the whole editing part… ah, well. I’ll get used to it in time.

By Dylan on 12.28.04 9:36 am

plz can you ad me on msn? im a 12 years old boy from sweden! my msn is filipajax@hotmail.com

By Filip on 12.28.04 12:26 pm

Hi Dylan,
I wish I got a record player for Christmas.

I enjoyed you video.

Back in the olden days we called that arm thing a tone arm: The arm of a phonograph turntable that holds the cartridge, and we called the place where the records go, a turntable: The circular horizontal rotating platform of a phonograph on which the record is placed.

By Steve Garfield on 12.28.04 2:44 pm

You’ve got some cool records in your garage. I can see why your mom and dad were so excited to pull them out!

By Joshua on 12.28.04 5:49 pm

Editing isn’t easy, but you’ve done a very good job of it; you work with the material availiable very well. I, for one, am very impressed.

By Michael Tandy on 12.28.04 7:19 pm

That was The Cure’s first ablum it is called Three Imaginary Boys. Keep up the good blog.

By Anonymous on 12.28.04 11:33 pm

Your blog is awesome! I added you to my “Blogs I Read”, though my blog is in swedish so you probably wont get that much out from visiting it. Anyways, the URL is http://blog.joacim.net

Keep up teh good work!

By Anonymous on 12.29.04 6:57 am

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By Anonymous on 12.29.04 8:51 am

Anonymous,

I am being nice and not shouting every insult in Japanese I know.

Which is a heck of alot, mind you.

By Dylan on 12.29.04 9:36 am

You rock Dylan! Keep up the video blogging - it’s very cool. I’m adding this blog to my list.

By Anonymous on 12.29.04 11:39 am

Dylan - have fun with the player.

Enjoy exploring the records to find music you
like - and buy more Albums for next to nothing
at garage sales.

FYI - the space between tracks on an Album is called a ‘black hole’, no joke

By Anonymous on 12.29.04 1:56 pm

Hey Anonymous,
Don’t be posting something like that to the young lady,you know who you are.if you don’t like her work,then go else where to make comments like that.That was sick to say something like that.she’s an 11 yr old,leave her alone!

By Anonymous on 12.29.04 7:04 pm

Hey Dylan,

Your vlog entries are great. Could you please make an entry one day on how you found j-pop/j-rock and what you like about the music?

Have fun!

By rmk on 12.30.04 2:05 am

J-Rock and J-Pop? Hai, okay. ^__^

By Dylan on 12.30.04 10:42 am

hi dylan!

my husband and i got a record player for christmas as well! we call it a turntable though, lol. my nine year old niece fell on it and broke it though, so hopefully we can return it!

you have some awesome records! keep up the cool vid blogging. its really interesting and fun.

By malia on 12.30.04 1:21 pm

If you like the Sex Pistols you might also like the Misfits another 70’s punk band. They were an influence on Metallica and other “speed” metal bands.

Legacy of Brutality is a good Misfits album. Check it out !

By Ricky on 12.30.04 6:28 pm

excellent! You might like the Dead Milkmen
-a fan of music : )

By Anonymous on 12.30.04 6:34 pm

There’s a great j-rock/pop-punk group in Japan called ELLEGARDEN that does half their songs in english.

http://wiki.theppn.org/ELLEGARDEN

They’re the gateway band that I recommended a lot. lol. The reactions are usually *wow, this is good* (after first few all-english songs) then when the all japanese songs come on they’re like *i can’t understand a damn world but this sounds cool too*. (muhaha). After that, I get them hooked onto others like Do As Infinity when they’re begging for more.

http://wiki.theppn.org/Do_As_Infinity

By Anonymous on 12.30.04 6:34 pm

girlie, you must make videoblogs forever… you so rock.

“10:15 saturday night” is THE best cure song. and if you ike that, you MUST hear “i dig you” by cult hero - its robert smith from the cure & one of the guys from souxie and the banshees, with their mailman as the lead singer… outrageously awesome. youll love it!

By Anonymous on 12.31.04 12:43 am

lol….

Dylan, just saw your record player blog and i loved it..
it was kinda funny seeing you danceing around and into the music.I’m sure you’ll have hours of fun listening to music your parents loved listening to when they were younger.makes me wish i could hear my old albums of motley crue,judist priest,led zepplin to take me back to yesta years again..
Enjoy the record player and shoot another blog with the whole family enjoying the sounds from your record player plz..

By Anonymous on 12.31.04 1:53 pm

I’m posting anonymously because I’m way too lazy to register! (so I’m Glenn. There, I’m not anonymous anymore…).

First, very good video(s!). I reckon 90% of 11 year olds who try to make a video blog will give up halfway through, or will end up with a video full of nothing more than giggling and a waste of disk-space. Yours are funny, interesting, and kept me watching from start to finish!

Good to see you aren’t following “the crowd” over what music you should like. Instead you are going out and exploring what you like. Good going. Nice one with the record player too!

I hope when my little girl (currently 2 months old!) is 11 she will have the kind of intelligence and personality you do.

Don’t take any notice of the insults from the odd freak (as you’ve had above). They are just trying to make up for their own inadiquacies!

Whereas someday I reckon you might just become a Star…! (and in some ways you already have!!)

By Anonymous on 01.01.05 2:49 pm

Wow Dylan! remember last time i talked to you in WAM and i asked for the URL cause your dad’s site was down and you were surprised i read your blog at all and you said you thought the only people who read it were your parents! now look at you! you’re famous! good job.

By Sarah on 01.02.05 1:15 am

Hi Dylan, the vids are great keep it up.

No idea what make the record player is, so don’t know if the one you have has this, I’m guessing not as you didn’t use it. But many players have a little leaver near the base of the arm. It lifts the arm and needle directly up (and down) from the record, so no nasty risky scratches while picking it up, or trying to drop in on a 3rd or 4th track.

Looking forward to more installments.

By Modesty B Catt on 01.03.05 4:55 am

Well, it seems that the power of the Internet still strikes again

Hello from the UK, you’re more famous than you realise I think Picked up on your ABC article online from the Firefox Latest Headlines button. Very cool.

Yeah, anyways - you like Japanese music a lot, I hope you’ve heard of Melt Banana. They’re a VERY cool jrock band. This dude called John Peel (he died in December, a very sad loss to the entire world) used to play a lot of their stuff; it’s sometimes quite hard to get hold of their music, but I think it’s great. Check em out if you’ve not already.

It’s also very good to see that the young’ins of this world haven’t lost touch completely with what I think is the BEST music medium. Ever. There’s something about vinyl, the smell of it, the feel of having a big disc where you can actually see the grooves on the disc… It’s something so much more substantial than a little shiny disc which you might as well use as a mirror. I hope that you continue to enjoy listening to vinyl as much as a lot of us do!

(I say young’ins, but I’m only 19 myself guess I feel like I’m older than I really am =/

Anyways. Congratulations again from this side of The Pond for your triumphant takeover of American news TV, and long may the videoblogs continue!

Christopher

By Christopher on 01.03.05 9:59 am

this is awesome and you are awesome. congratulations on the new found fame.

d.

By Anonymous on 01.03.05 11:00 pm

Hey Dylan, I found your blog through boingboing.net. Neato! I just wanted to say that I got a record player for Christmas, too! It looks like yours except for no black stripe on the lid. It’s a Crosley CR-49 and I love it. (note to the other other poster — mine has no lever to raise the tonearm, and it takes some getting used to! I made a wire hook so I can raise and lower the neelde without jiggling it) Now I can listen to all the cool records I had when I was a kid. I only have one Zeppelin LP though — III. So I need to hit the thrift stores!

Happy new year,
Kara (http://kayray.org/)

By kayray on 01.04.05 12:03 pm

I have some old LPs, and one of them I liked was by a group called “Sigue Sigue Sputnik.” The album was called “Flaunt it,” and it’s very much like J-Rock in a 1980s kind of way. Lots of synth, heavy beats, big robot on the cover.

I am so happy to see someone as you as you are rediscovering some of the greats when I was a kid. Did anyone explain what, “Never Mind the Bollocks” meant? It’s rude Brit slang for the time, meaning, “Skip the stupid stuff everyone is saying,” although it’s a little more like swear words. Don’t say “bollocks” in England, it’s considered a very harsh street word. Unless you’re in a street fight, and just got punched in the face by a drunk. THEN you have earned the right…

But I hope that never happens to you. I feel you are destined for great things, and have a bright future ahead of you.

By Anonymous on 01.04.05 10:56 pm

Adorable!
I love your parent’s taste in music - you are enjoying some great classic groups from the 80’s and late 70’s. Enjoy rockin’ Keep bloggin’

By Lynn on 01.05.05 9:21 am

Dylan! Vinyl rules! Your folks have done you a big favor by turning you on to those LPs. Now that you have been initiated, you need to have a better turntable, and some advice on cleaning and caring for those precious slabs of vinyl. Also, LPs are still being made and are more popular than they have been for decades. Bands like NoFX, Converge and many other of the most hippest punk and alternative rock bands still make their new albums available on vinyl! For the most fanatical LP cleaning article ever, visit my website: www.musicangle.com. And keep spinning that vinyl (on a better turntable—they still make them..and good ones!)

Michael Fremer
www.musicangle.com

By Anonymous on 01.11.05 1:42 pm

Posting two comments to the same blog in one day? You know what that means? Your blog is GOOD.

I was a huge cure fanatic. I recently collected TONS of unreleased stuff. I had 2-days worth of cure recordings — just bootlegs, b-sides, movie sound-track stuff, cuts and demos that didn’t make it to their albums, etc… Loads of gems in that bunch!

My favorite cure song is “Fear of Ghosts”. It was a B-side, and the original is long out of print and hard to find, but it’s on Join The Dots - 2004
B-Sides and Rarities. Disc 2.

These days I help electronic music artists get exposure on my free music download blog. I also make my own electronic music on my computer. It’s actually not very difficult. You should try your hand at it.

The first step to being a good musician is to have good taste in music — and you’ve got that in spades!

- Eric

By Eric on 01.14.05 7:33 pm

Hi, me again. Not sure if you’ll see this post way down here, but anywho.
There is very little more odd for me to sit here and watch a person your age putting the needle on a vinyl copy of The Sex Pistols. If you were a boy, it could be a replay of a moment in my life. Right down to the age. I am darn-near 40 now lol.

I have a feeling your parents and me would be fast friends, based on the albums you are refering to. I would like to think that if I had fathered a child, they would be something like you.

Keep it up!

By Tim on 01.25.05 8:02 pm