The Word I Was Looking For

in stinct n. 1. An inner pattern of behavior that is not learned and results in complex animal responses such as building of nests and nursing of young. 2. A powerful motivation or impulse. 3. A natural capability or aptitude.

It sometimes takes a brother to illuminate the obvious; Jim Teacher writes in:

Wouldn't the opposite of convention be instinct? In that it's not taught.

Instinct can't be eclipsed.

Thanks, brother. Instinct is the word I was looking for.

I've been presented with many awesome and thoughtful e-mails concerning the last couple of blog entries. E-mails dripping with purple prose, e-mails dropping hits of perspective, e-mails tracing lines and fondling titties, e-mails filled with poetry and enthusiasm. I'll see about sharing them with you. I'd like to make poets of you all. In the meantime, I'll let you know that today is my last day on the antibiotics and my first day on the therapy. I'm feeling pretty good. Let's keep it that way.

Today I expect the fuses for my Moscode to arrive. The generous George Kaye is sending them my way.

Today I received an invitation to fashionably booze it up. It went like this:

From: Steve Silberman
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 5:47 PM
To: Mejias, Stephen
Subject: Ayre

Hi.
I'm sending a reminder that I will be coming to see you on Tuesday the 18th with kit in hand.

Do you like gin?

Best regards,
Steve Silberman

From: Mejias, Stephen
To: Silberman, Steve
Subject: RE: Ayre
Date sent: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 18:10:19 -0500

It's totally on my calendar; looking forward to it.

Do I like gin? Shrug of shoulders: sure, I like gin.
SM

From: Steve Silberman
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 6:16 PM
To: Mejias, Stephen
Subject: RE: Ayre

Great. I'll bring a bottle of Hendrick's... ;)

From: Mejias, Stephen
To: Silberman, Steve
Subject: RE: Ayre
Date sent: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:07:46 -0500

Yo Steve.
I want to blog this e-mail exchange.

From: Steve Silberman
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 2:14 PM
To: Mejias, Stephen
Subject: RE: Ayre

I think that would be fun, starting with the gin question. Some readers are going to think that I’m going to pry you with booze. If so, we can have some fun with them.

I laugh Sam Tellig's evil laugh.

Finally, today is a day of meetings. The editors are holding hands with the sales team, sitting around a big shiny table, working things out. Voices are chiming in from across the country. Perhaps there is much head-banging and sweat, perhaps it's all smiles and pizza. I'll join them in a little bit, with limericks of gin, singing songs about crimson birds, arab straps, and all I haven't been taught.

COMMENTS
Buddha's picture

This is a great hobby.

If only carrying around our systems and their sound were as easy as carrying a bottle of good gin.

Then what?

You know," this hobby is a little on the solipsistic side. Maybe that's one of the reasons chicks don't seem to dig hi-fi as much as men.

Maybe hi fi has a big vein of ""I am a rock"," I am an island"" running through it", as your astute, yet dysthymic, fellow Manhattanite is want to sing.

I think I need a group listening session.

WonkoTheSane's picture

Free amps, free speakers, free gin, my goodness, I'm begining to think your job is cooler than mine. I get a free bus pass though.

Christian's picture

Hendrick's gin eh? I have become partial to the Plymouth gin but I will have to look that one up.The group listening is always fun. A friend of mine and I would get together from time to time, but it was difficult to get many people together. Certainly with the same interest in music, but more importantly the same interest in hi-fi.

Stephen Mejias's picture

Tuesday, April 18th, will be a fun time, indeed. What is great, and strange, is that I hardly know Steve Silberman, but I'm very much looking forward to his visit. I know him just well enough to know that he's extremely passionate about music and this hobby, and to be in the presence of that kind of enthusiasm is always a real pleasure. This hobby is full of that kind of thing, and it's exactly what we should share.Gin helps, too.

Stephen Mejias's picture

PS
I wish all of you could join us. Primedia probably wouldn't expense it, though.

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