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..is the boy going to get from the Friend Zone to the End Zone? :)
Follow Ups:
Thanks, everyone, for reading the column. I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am. I've shared this thread with the girls, and Natalie felt inspired to offer a response. I've posted her response, along with some of my own thoughts, at my Stereophile blog. Please check it out, if you're interested.
Stephen:
I think your post and the great link to your blog got overlooked here on AA as it was buried in the mix as they say.
I would suggest posting it as a new thread. I think many would enjoy reading it.
I look at it in an entirely differently way; my stereo directly connects me to the greatest musicians. It's all about communication of beauty! I'm NEVER lonely listening to my great vinyl records. I am listening to the classic Miles Davis' "Round About Midnight' (Miles, Coltrane, Garland, Chambers, and Jones) record over my fantastic classical system (AR SP 8, AR D 70, Counterpoint SA 2 prepreamp, VPI Super Scoutmaster, Benz Ruby 3, and, yes, the fantastic Fulton J speakers) as i post this. Miles and Coltrane are IN MY ROOM!!!
Stephen:
A fine and classy blog entry. Thank you for putting together.
I am very glad you took the thread for what it was, a lighthearted jab.
Truthfully, your column brought me back about 15 years ago when I was in my 20s and I had a small bachelor pad with an NAD integrated, some nice bookshelf speakers, a Sony 5 disc carousel, and Radio Shack cables.
I have been waiting for Stereophile to bring into the fold some diversity. Reading equipment reviews and editorials by old guys gets a little stale. Your column is a true breath of fresh air.
And, you are a better man than I! When I was single and surrounded by such a bevy of beauties, in my greed and lecherousness, I could never have kept them as such long term quality friends as you have.
Keep up the great work!
Pretty good summing up,RN.I just cant recover from Roger's and Maria's losses.
Cheers
Bill
Bill:
Maria is a one dimensional basher who can't move, has no volley, or transition game. Glad she lost!
Roger simply did not have to deal with the level of play that Tsonga, Djokovic, Nadal, and Murray are displaying today back in 2005 or 2006.
He has stuck to his 90 sq in racket, which is a silly move, and he has not tried to finish more points inside the service line consistently. His second server is also very attackable now.
I was devastated when Borg lost to McEnroe in 81. Still have not recovered!
:-)
I enjoy his column because of the fine style of writing and the jealousy that is invoked thru the subtle shades of the good life.Great music,meat loaf,lovely friends,late night parties,spicy tinge of pain of an old relationship,its all there.Perhaps I look forward to his column more for certain nostalgic memories than for the quality of budget audio.
Let me add some more Vindaloo sauce into my meatloaf.
Bill
Yikes, that Vindaloo sauce burns on the way in and on the way out!
Perks you up when you have good company.Mejias could perhaps try it next time.
Bill
You don't think they actually exist do you? They are there to give the column structure and something besides audio to write about. More or less for colour.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. ~ Bernard Bailey
Sure they do. Too many gory details to be made up.
clearly we fall outside the pale; we are out of step with - and do not - sufficiently appreciate - the new stereophile personal journalism.
can you spell d-e-m-o-g-r-a-p-h-i-c-s. ah, to be young again and make meatloaf for single women 'friends'.
la
I'm a great cook, but I prefer women to cook for me, at least 50% of the time. BTW, I doubt SM's meatloaf comes close to my wife's.
Please post the wife's Meatloaf recipie.Want to compare with Mejias'.
Cheers
Bill
Here is my wife's meatloaf: Glaze: 1/2 cup ketchup; 1/4 cup brown sugar; 4 teaspoons vinegar.
Meatloaf: 2 teaspoons oil; 1 onion. chopped; 2 garlic cloves minced; 2 eggs; 1/2 teaspoon thyme; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper; 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard; 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce; 1/2 cup milk; 2 pounds meat loaf mix, 1/3 ground chuck, 1/3 ground pork, 1/3 ground veal; 1/2 pound low fat bacon.
cook at 375 degrees. Saute onion and garlic 5 minutes over medium heat; mix eggs, thyme, pepper, mustard, Worerstershire sauce, and milk; add egg mixture to meat and onion and garlic; put in to a loaf pan (9 by 5 inches); brush with 1/2 glaze; put bacon over loaf; bake 1 hour; serve with rest of glaze.
Wine? Cote du rhone or Zin.
almost the same as what we cook at home.We add a little Chinese hot sauce and capsicum.Spicy.I have requested my wife to add some vodka but she has turned a deaf ear to it.
All the best
Bill
Bill, I love hot sauce, but it doesn't love me back!
.
No Sir.If lonely in Jersey City, can always skip over to Hoboken.
Cheers
Bill
But has anyone besides me noticed that in this thread, Stephen comes off a thoroughly decent young man, and the rest come off as horny old men?
Like I said, no disrespect. ;-)
Let me see if I understand, this guy writes about his girl friends in reviews, including his success of lack of in the romantic department, and because a few members comment on such, poking a little fun, you charactrerize them as horny old men, adding, "no disrespect" intended!
Austin you are a pathetic clown! ... disrespect fully intended (just in case you miss that)
LOL
Dr. Who, A Christmas Carol, "Like I say, Lucky"
Why do people say things to one-another online that they very likely wouldn't do face-to-face? I'm guessing Stephen M. would make a great friend but he does seem to need a little more confidence with women.This is just an observation based on reading his column.I'm not certain that an audio magazine is the place to profess lonliness though without taking a little good-natured heat for it.Then again,I'm frequently wrong.
I don't know why you're directing that at me, after all I said much the same about the reviewer, and it was Austin that got his nose all out of joint over the predictable "good-natured heat".
As for things people wouldn't say face-to-face I shall assume that would include not saying "no disrespect" after delivering a overt insult. However in Austin's case I have my doubts.
Dr. Who, A Christmas Carol, "Like I say, Lucky"
I apologize.I wasn't directing that at you. I'm just laptop stupid.I think "the old school: said it better than I can.No disrespect intended
I like Stepehen's column, but I really think this young man should find a divorced cougar who'll give his plugs a cleaning that he'll fondly remember the rest of his life. Probably change his whole outlook on life. I know it did mine.
Regards, Sam
...to convert discerning inmates into gossip columnists. Duh. :^)
BTW, prostitution is not a panacea.
Soulfood:
Your posts are becoming more bizarre with each day. Are you
skipping your meds?
On reflection, two divorced cougars. At the same time. That's the ticket!!! If I'm a horny old man, I may as well be a perverted horny old man.
Regards, Sam
A boy cannot survive on LPs alone. My dad used to tell me Have Gun, Will Travel.
The most cringe worth moment was when he got uncomfortably intimate with
one of his records a few columns ago. It bordered on Paraphilia.
tsk. tsk. regor give the boy a break. he just wants to have fun. you want to deny him his jollies? :)
If he wants to have fun he should stop thinking and just make a move. If you don't make a real move, women will think you don't find them sexually attractive (or don't find women in general attractive).
Your'e parenthetical comment may have some truth.
Stereophile's most popular blogger has teen-(okay, twenty-something-) angst, and is brand new to audio. I am clearly not their intended target audience but if it brings new readers into the hobby, kudos to Stereophile.
Larry
SM's passion for music comes through in his column. Audio gear is a distant second, as it should be IMO. As for SM being decent, women don't fall in love with decent men (though they may marry one). Yes, in my experience. If you want to score, be a bad boy.
Well based upon this thread alone (I haven't read the reviews) one could be forgiven for suspecting that Audio Gear, the supposed subject of such reviews, might rank even further down (than second) in his list interests.
:)
Dr. Who, A Christmas Carol, "Like I say, Lucky"
but that is hardly surprising.
Jim, I worry you are just being overly sensitive after JA called you one of them there skeptics.
;D
(All of this is just goofing off, Jim.)
What Jim said .
Or are you suggesting the audio equipment makes them horny?
...that you seem to have no idea what men of all ages tease each other about.
No disrespect intended.
Did you actually think we find Stephen at fault for not taking his column in a scatologic direction? Corey Greenberg already tried the horny young guy schtick.
Mr. Austin, sometimes guys tease each other...it's part of camaraderie. It actually means we like Stephen.
If you want disrespect, tell us what you think of Roy Hall's opinion on this matter.
:)
> > ...that you seem to have no idea what men of all ages tease each other about. < <
Sure -- when they're friends.
> > Did you actually think we find Stephen at fault for not taking his column in a scatologic direction? < <
Do I think you're mad at Stephen for not writing about poo? No. Whatever gave you that idea?
> > Mr. Austin, sometimes guys tease each other...it's part of camaraderie. It actually means we like Stephen. < <
Fine. But I still think it makes you (plural) sound like horny old men. No disrespect.
> > If you want disrespect, tell us what you think of Roy Hall's opinion on this matter. < <
Don't know. Didn't read it.
Jim
Do I need to set up some form of identification?
Also, we sound more like teenage boys.
;D
Let me further assist with certain use of terms...
decency is not at issue.no doubt he is fine young man; perhaps a prince; perhaps a mature reviewer as he grows up. likewise, the postings are true to form.
a tad more serious, for the moment: reread his columns and suss-out his chronic single young boy point of view: his continual babbling on about his various friends, who happen to be girls and his lack of a significant relationships with the other sex, if, indeed, that really interests him. it was only a matter of time before questions were raised by the forum crowd; those "horney old men".
Yep.
Lord:
As usual, you are astute.
Our decent young man in question is the only reviewer, or columnist, who incorporates his circle of female friends, notions of longing and loneliness, AND audio equipment into a running narrative.
..and there were A LOT of nice pictures of his nubile co-worker from the Munich reports.
Actually, his latest column about the NAD integrated brings back memories..I rolled with an NAD for a number of years with some Rogers LS35a's. Wish I had not sold that NAD.
i think many of us started with nad equipment (for me the mid'80s ). the column is a fine, worthy idea. the equipment elements 'work'; and no doubt those elements will continue to improve. honestly, for me, some solid editing from ja to clean up the obsessive boy magazine 'tendencies' would strengthen the column.
hey, wtf do i know, maybe there is a claque out there that is enamored with the whole kit and kaboodle.
take care "regor". i'll catch up with you down the road.
la
(a nyc outer borough boy, too long ensconced in boston)
In my case it is totally different ... I never again wish to see, let alone hear, the Adcom stuff I started with. No it's not junk, but better makes you acutely aware of shortcomming, and my trajectory has been firmly on the path of improvement, perhaps served well by having no particular attachment to equipment.
Dr. Who, A Christmas Carol, "Like I say, Lucky"
...it could be, like a lot of audiophiles, that he's one of these Nietzscheans, who 'loves one's desires, not what is desired'.
In fact, I think that whole attitude accounts for a lot of the appeal of the softcoreporn audio press.
Sharks have no patience. :^)
"He who hesitates, masterbates."
Stop playing with yourself and get back on topic. Are you saying Stepehen Mejias is someone you'd like see review equipment that interests you?
^$^$
Then, take your time. Whenever you're finish.
;)He's letting his meat loaf, you say?
I wonder if closing the deal will be part of the column?
He's already done some heavy lifting.
I'm pulling for Natalie, I think.
I wonder if his ears are ringing?
Edits: 06/19/11
LOL. Yes, let's see where the column leads.
Those platonic, sanitized hugs goodbye make me cringe....
I think Roy Hall had some pretty blunt advice for our boy.
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