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Headed Off To Cinema Wasteland

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It’s been a very busy week so far preparing for Cinema Wasteland just outside Cleveland Ohio. Turntabling will get back into the swing of regular updates next week after the dust settles; we know it’s been a bit sparse round here lately with all the traveling and record selling, but our work resumes in earnest after the show.

We’ve got The Turntabling Collection for sale at Cinema Wasteland once again–our growing pile of rare, awesome, hard-to-find, and unusual vinyl is for sale and every title you buy directly supports this site, for which we thank you.

There are many people to thank for helping out at the Turntabling booth recently; first and foremost Jennifer Kilzer without whom so much of the Turntabling experience would be much less interesting and fun–her taste in music alone makes her irreplaceable on those long drives.

Jeff Runokivi has also been a mainstay–his help and company at Cinema Wastelands and Horrorhound has been invaluable, and it also great to have Mike Riley along for our first-ever Days of the Dead in Atlanta (not to mention our friends Eliesha and Geoff Huitt who were awesome hosts and tour guides).

And I can’t thank a group of people without mentioning Jon Kitley, head ghoul at Kitley’s Krypt, who got me started in this whole convention record selling stuff in the first place. He took me to my first horror con ever four years ago and I’ve been in big trouble ever since. The Kitley’s Krypt bunch is a family affair, so additional thanks to Nick and Dawn Kitley for being all-around awesome.

See you at Cinema Wasteland?

–Joe Wallace

Turntabling at Capricon 32 February 9-12, 2012

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Join Turntabling at Capricon 32, which runs Thursday, February 9 through Sunday February 12, 2012 at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel, 601 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Wheeling, Illinois.

We’ll be posting updates from the show on the Turntabling Facebook page, so if you can’t be there in person, join Turntabling on Facebook.

The Turntabling Collection will be there, featuring hundreds of rare, hard-to-find, and just plain cool vinyl records and CDs from literally all over the world; Italy, Japan, Germany, France, and of course the usual USA-based suspects we all know and love.

Looking for rare Doctor Who vinyl? Star Wars soundtracks? Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy vinyl? The Johnny YesNo soundtrack by Cabaret Voltaire? It’s all in the Turntabling collection and all for sale. All proceeds from the record sales go toward supporting Turntabling.net, and your support is definitely appreciated.

Turntabling also sponsors an after-convention party on Saturday night, February 11. DJ Paisley Babylon spins the most insane mix of tunes ever, and more importantly there is FREE ALCOHOL.

Did we mention the free alcohol?

There are plenty of really rare and obscure CD and vinyl titles on sale this time…do NOT miss the Turntabling booth at Capricon 32!

 

Al Jazeera on Vinyl Records

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by Joe Wallace

I was pleasantly startled to find this video clip posted by Al Jazeera on vinyl records. Having never seen anything of the network at all, I don’t know what I was expecting, but since the majority of the exposure to Al Jazeera in the USA has a lot to do with political, war, and terrorism coverage, I suppose I had an impression that Al Jazeera is more of a breaking news service along the lines of HLN.

But they do features, too. This one is pretty interesting but it’s a bummer that it’s all from an American perspective. I’d love to get a glimpse at the record industries of other countries and what its like to buy or sell vinyl in places Al Jazeera bureaus call home.

The central conceit of this 2011 clip is a bit misguided–it’s really late in the game to say vinyl is making a “comeback”–but overall this is pretty interesting and well-done.



My one question–who is the Jeanne Moos of Al Jazeera? I’d love to see some of those quirky culture style pieces in a completely different cultural context.

Vintage Vinyl Show and Sale

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With a little over a month before the Vintage Vinyl Show and Sale held at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake, Illinois, I wanted to remind vinyl junkies about the show. There’s still time to get a dealer, table too–tell them you spotted the info here at Turntabling!

The show is August 13 and 14 and has the added bonus of a 60s and 70s retro car show, so there is plenty to photograph as well as purchase at the show. (I’m a shutterbug on the side, so this would appeal to both my photographic obsessions and my retro ones).

The Saturday hours are 10AM to 4PM, with Sunday hours running from 8AM to 3PM, and yes, there’s an ad for the show to the right of this post. Print that ad and bring it with you to the show to get two-for-one admission to the show.

Vinyl junkies like me can’t resist a good local show, but I was already committed to running the Turntabling booth at Flashback Weekend during the same time, so I am going to miss all the good buys on this one. Which means more good stuff for YOU since you won’t have ME prowling around looking for the rare vinyl.

And while I’m on the subject, if you’d like to advertise your next record show on Turntabling, by all means get in touch and I’ll give you a rate quote, tech specs, etc. Contact me via e-mail at jwallace (at) turntabling (dot net).

Support your local record shows! Dealers work hard to find the good vinyl, and there’s nothing better than a well-attended record show to give a little love for the hard work.