feeling hunky dory

Back from Ohio, slowly getting back into the world of NYC and yes, yes, still looking for somewhere to live for 2/1. I had a quiet, sort of wonderful xmas that involved ice-skating, roller skating and sled riding as well as shots on xmas day, lekvar pierogies, buckeyes and as Caleb said, cheese of every type in the natural and processed world. Setting by Gummo, culture by the Deer Hunter, this is my Ohio.

I finished my paper on disco-polo a few hours short of deadline, but am terribly interested in getting more sources together to perhaps do my EMP thingie on it...What are some good books/pieces on the history of Euro-house, Erasure-style new wave and generally more 'approachable' European electronic dance music styles? I'm thinking about turbo-folk in particular, as written about in the book Guerrilla Radio.

Am trying to get into a class called "Recording Angels," like the Evan Eisenberg book - and realized that I'm becoming sort of a early recording junkie, aka, when I finally break the 'burg and become a retired yuppie somewhere, I'm going to have a huge victrola collection, then Caruso will be my main squeeze. It's all part of my elaborate retirement plan involving opening an antique store on Magazine Street, hours 10:30-1pm, 2-3:45pm, Czech and Nepali speaking only, then retiring to my house in the lower garden district where i shall sit with friends on rocking chairs on my veranda whittling gnomes. Space is limited, reserve in advance!