I tried to lose myself in labour

[vovat]

Happy Labor Day! I guess this is the secular end of summer, which isn't that happy in and of itself, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the day.

When I vacuumed my car this morning, I accidentally destroyed my tape of Frank Black's Teenager of the Year. It was just a tape that I had made myself from the CD, so it's no big deal, but I still wish it hadn't happened. I guess next time I vacuum, I'll remember to take all the cassettes off the floor first.

I wish I could get some way to listen to non-radio music in my car other than a cassette player. I guess the ideal would be an iPod, but they're kind of expensive. How do you hook those up in your car, anyway?

In the near future, I need to call the Tin Angel about what time they think the Kelly Hogan show on Friday will end. I'm not sure how I should get there. I don't really want to drive, but I might not have any other viable options. I also need to apply for an absentee ballot, since I'll probably be away from home on Election Day.

Speaking of elections, what's wrong with Rebublicans? I mean, really. I'm thinking mostly of Bush supporters here, but just the general "only rich people are worthy of consideration" attitude bugs me as well. Of course, I'm not rich myself, so that might have something to do how I feel, but I hope that if I ever do get rich (yeah, right), I won't just totally be out for my own interests. I'm also sick of people supporting Bush because he's a Christian. It's not like he's a GOOD one or anything.

Comments

[revme.livejournal.com]

I don't have an iPod here or anything, but my guess would be that you'd get one of those Cassette Tape Adapter Things for a portable CD player, and just plug it in to the headphone jack of the iPod and pop it in. I wonder if the iPod has one of those converter things that plugs into your cigarette lighter thing. That'd be pretty cool.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I once had a portable CD player hooked up that way (to the cassette player and the cigarette lighter), but the cord that ran to the lighter kept breaking, which is why I don't do that anymore.

[onib.livejournal.com]

Like revme said, you can use a tape adapter plugged into the headphone jack of the player. Alternately, you can use an FM transmitter. You can find them on sale for about $20, and I've started to use one since one of my cars keeps trying to eject every tape adapter I've tried. I still haven't gotten an ipod, but I have a CD player that reads mp3s, so I ended up consolidating my collection onto a few mp3-CDs and playing them with the FM transmitter.

The down side is that it looks like they only broadcast on 88.1 - 88.7 FM and I sometimes have a hard time finding an empty signal on one of those when I'm in Philly.