[Jukebox-list] RE: Mechanical Music!!!

[Wesley Dean]

    I will not go into our warehouse in the middle of the night in darkness. You can hear weird noises and we do not have mice. We even have one with bullet holes. It must be dead because it will not tell us how it happened. Wes
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From: "Oregon Jukebox" <oregonjukebox at comcast.net>
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Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 2:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] RE: Mechanical Music!!!


> Kyle, you're a man after my own heart.....
> 
> Machines do have a soul, in a simple, all or nothing, loyal, brave, and not
> quite understandable way.
> More than once, I have asked engines to do the impossible, to literally
> exceed the laws of physics in order to achieve my own ends. Almost always in
> situations where I was in fear of my life. Much like a good dog or a good
> horse, if you talk to them, and they know you feel love for them... they
> will destroy themselves for you if need be. I am always humbled by this when
> I think of it.
> 
> Of course, jukeboxes are inhabited by sprites, elves, faeries, leprechauns,
> and gremlins... all laughing at us!
> 
> Lanway
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mechanical Music of S.F." <mechanicalmusic at hotmail.com>
> To: <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 6:36 PM
> Subject: [Jukebox-list] RE: Mechanical Music!!!
> 
> 
>> I would think the Wes Collection would be different. I suspect they are
> well
>> organised parts boxes in various states.
>> However, there's beauty in that. Most will never function again, but they
>> stand dry and protected to donate to their siblings that have managed to
>> stay in circulation. There's dignity in that.
>>
>> I like walking amongst the ruins as much or more than among the restored.
>> In my mind, I make an inventory of what it would take to get each one
>> running again, or if they're too far gone.
>>
>> Automobile junkyards are like that.  Sometimes, no matter the condition, a
>> wreck will sit there just beaming with life. Others are dead.  There was a
>> junkyard I went to once that managed to have about a '37 or '38 Plymouth
> in
>> it among the much newer 1960's and 1970's models.  Long as it had been
>> there, you could tell  there was still a spark of life left in it and I
>> wouldn't have been suprised if  it had been dragged from the mud and
>> properly oiled, gassed, and batteried, it would have fired up.
>> I remember talking to it and said, "I can't take you home, but don't give
>> up. Smile at everyone who passes by. Someone with more resources than I
> have
>> will notice and take you home. Don't let go."
>>
>> 18 months later, I went back for something else I needed, and wouldn't you
>> know it, someone had taken it out of there. The owner of the yard said it
>> had been there at least 40 years. When they went to dig it out, even on 2
>> flat rotten tires (2 still held air) two of them were able to push it
> free.
>> The guy actually said they had really just leaned on the trunk and pushed,
>> and 5 second later, it was out of it's hole as if the car had lept out.
>> This from someone NOT sentimental about the vehicles on the propery at
> all.
>>
>> I remember EXACTLY what words went through my mind. "Well, son of a
> bitch!"
>>
>> I managed to choke them back until I got back to my car, but I left there
>> crying a full-on river of tears of joy that day.
>>
>> Kyle ~
>> Mechanical Music of San Francisco
> 
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