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In Reply to: RE: the "anti-hero?" posted by Green Lantern on January 29, 2016 at 05:44:21
I have been a music lover since 5, and used audio to enhance that love all my life.
When I first moved out, I had a very nice system (see below), which I liked to play very loud, indeed. But I was raised to be a mensch, not a schmuck, and so I always had the neighbors in mind, not allowing selfishness to overtake the requirement of consideration of the feelings of others.
My solution was quite sweet, indeed: bribery, via "See's Candies". Worked like a charm, every time.
I would talk with the local See's manager and arrange a discount for a large buy of pound box assortments, and would go to each neighbor in my building (ALWAYS choosing single or two story places to live, for obvious economics), and would let them know that I listened to music very loudly (mostly classical and jazz), would never do so before 10 am or after 9 pm, and would always turn it down upon any request to do so. I would then present them with the chocolate assortment as my way of making anticipatory peace and saying, "Thanks!" Big smiles and warm, "Thank you!"s would invariably result. No problem, ever.
The manager always got even better treatment, usually a two pound box and then a periodic carrot cake (my specialty, swimming in cream cheese frosting), as an undisputed continuing bribe.
Not only did the approach work like a charm, I would actually get the neighbors and the manager complimenting me on the music I blared whenever I was home. And it wasn't too dear, as I always spent many weeks scouting numerous potential rental pads for sonics and interior layout (seriously, here), so once decided, I rarely, if ever, moved. In fact, I only needed to do that bribery gig twice, which was expensive enough, believe me! But, man, did it WORK!
And here's the funny part. Understand that I'm talking about BLASTING the sound so loudly, that a visiting new friend told me, "Dude, did you know that you can hear your music as you drive up along Brand Boulevard?" (in Glendale, California.) I went with him out into the street and realized, "Hol-eee shit! You ain't kidding!" And from then on I moderated it a bit, as I am not a complete asshole (only partial), and further, I simply could not afford to give everybody in Glendale a box of chocolates.
(And all with no hearing damage, I am glad to report, at least according to my audiologist who I periodically saw, to be safe. I think classical and most jazz are likely the easiest on the ears when listened to at life-like volumes.)
Bribery works wonders. (Just ask our fearless leaders in Washington DC........ )
[FYI- The original system was: Thorens TD-126 TT with Denon 103D into a Hitachi(?) head amp, feeding a Hafler preamp into a Yamaha B-1 amplifier, powering a pair of stock Dahlquist DQ-10s. Later, to really 'harass and annoy', I sold the Yamaha and Dollies, and went with the thunderous Electron Kinetics Eagle 7A amplifier (serial #20, btw) into a completely tricked out new pair of DQ-10s, both of which (Eagle and Dollies) were completely modified by Randy McCarter of Randall Research. THAT was the system that was blasting Mahler's 1st down Brand Boulevard that day, btw.]
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There's NOTHING like a See's chocolate.
Had (and made) some very fine chocolates
over the decades, but when you need a See's,
nothing else will do.
So, great bribery choice (obviously)!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
in Buffalo, New York, there are chocolate shops in numerous places in the city where they used to actually make the chocolates in the front window. after eating THOSE, you would say that the See's were about half as good as the ones you could see being made.
as with lots of things, the level of quality may have diminished or disappeared as time has progressed. i visited a couple of years ago and tried the 'beef on weck' sandwiches which were a real delicacy there and they had deteriorated to an average beef sandwich that can be had anywhere.
...regards...tr
in various exotic flavors, had fine handmade artisanal truffles and chocolates from
the finest purveyors in The San Francisco Bay Area and New Orleans... blah x 3...
There just ain't nothing like a See's, if that's what you want.
Still.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
They have worked their way into our childhood memories, that absolutely overwhelmingly wonderful smell when you walk in, and Grandma See staring at you, like some benevolent old Big Sister of Sweets, with the motto:"Big Sister is Tempting You"
(Indeed, Julia and I would eat a box at the Chestnut Tree Cafe, whilst sipping Victory Gin. Ahhhhhhh, but that was way back in 1984, so long ago.....)
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by some granddaughterly types around here.
The stores remain fragrant, spotless and some now feature eye candy to rival that in the display cases.
We know someone that works in the main office; See's gift certificates always seem to arrive at
the right time.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
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... are major contributors to the problem of female obesity.
Men who confuse women with candy will lose an awful lot of weight (and make themselves, and their women, a hole lot happier.)
Spelling pun very much intended..... :-)
to have eaten more than my share of see's, especially the maple fudge ones that are rectangular and not too large.
...regards...tr
Those are DEEEEE-LISHUS! Love those.......
See's candies have a buttery quality that you don't find anywhere else. I used to make artisan truffles too, thousands actually.
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