Eight track collector, Bucks Burnett

DALLAS—Last fall, more than 200 people crammed into one of this city’s premier contemporary art galleries for a three-day show. The white walls, accustomed to paintings that sell for thousands of dollars, were home to less rarified fare.

The show? Eight Track Tapes: The Bucks Burnett Collection. “It was packed,” says gallery owner Barry Whistler.

Presiding over the affair was James “Bucks” Burnett, a portly fellow with long gray hair and a white beard. He wore a tailored brown suit covered with images from the album cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1973 Houses of the Holy. Strangers showed up offering boxes of eight tracks, which Mr. Burnett happily pawed through, plucking out dusty rarities and putting them on display.

The positive response “led me to think maybe I’m not insane,” says Mr. Burnett. But it also helped him realize that a brief gallery show simply can’t contain his vision for the hard plastic tapes, one of the clunkiest and most short-lived music formats of all time.

He wants to open an eight-track museum. “There are only two choices. A world with an eight-track museum and a world without an eight-track museum,” he says. “I choose with.”

Shortly after the show, the planners of a music conference in Denton, a music-loving college town about 40 miles north of Dallas, made Mr. Burnett an offer. They would find him a vacant space and pay $4,000 to build a temporary museum for a one-month run beginning Friday.

The Man Behind the (Eight-Track) Music Brandon Thibodeaux for The Wall Street Journal

James “Bucks” Burnett has amassed a collection of about 2,000 eight-track cartridges.

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Listen to some song clips from Mr. Burnett’s collection.

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Mr. Burnett accepted and is readying his collection for another display, this time in a former lingerie factory in Denton. He plans to showcase and play a few hundred tapes, including a baby-blue copy of The Who’s “Tommy,” a copy of the “Easy Rider” soundtrack with sun-bleached cover art signed by Peter Fonda and a rare copy of Lou Reed’s 1975 avant-garde homage to noise called “Metal Machine Music.”

This isn’t the first time that Mr. Burnett, a long-time record-store owner, decided to venerate something the world was ready to forget. He edited the now-defunct Mr. Ed Fan Club newsletter for a decade. He managed the ukulele playing vibrato singer Tiny Tim and produced his final album.

At 51, he hopes to find a permanent home for his beloved eight-track collection. He has assembled a board of directors and is preparing to incorporate a nonprofit organization. “There are certainly lesser topics that have museums,” Mr. Burnett says.

Peaking in popularity in the mid-1970s, eight-track tapes—about five by four inches—were made to be stuck in a back pocket and carelessly flung onto the vinyl seat of an AMC Pacer. They are the music version of cockroaches, hard to destroy. A 40-year-old tape can still sound rich and full.

Eight tracks were also revolutionary. They were the first truly portable music format, able to be played in a car, and therefore the forerunner of the Walkman, the boom box and even the iPod.

William Lear, better known for his eponymous jet, invented them in the early 1960s in part to provide music in the air. The format never quite took off above the clouds, but it did on the ground. In the 1960s, the eight track was a breakthrough in automobile music. It provided a much fuller sound than the sonically limited AM radio signal.

But the eight track’s time atop the music-format food chain was brief. Its downfall was the cassette, which was smaller and ran longer, but was initially dogged by poor sound quality.

Companies poured research into cassettes, developing new coatings and tape material. In 1972, the famous “Is it live or is it Memorex?” advertising campaign began the process of convincing the music-buying public to give up their eight tracks.

When a cassette recording of Ella Fitzgerald, in a famous commercial, smashed a wine glass, the slow decline of the eight track had begun, says Jim Anderson, a professor at New York University’s Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music.

Of course, the cassette was soon overtaken by the compact disc, which had superior sound quality. And today, the CD is giving way to digital downloading. Last year, Americans purchased 301 million compact discs and downloaded 78 million albums. They also downloaded 1.2 billion songs. Vinyl records sold 2.5 million. Only 34,000 albums were sold on cassette, according to Nielsen SoundScan, down from 105 million a decade ago. Nielson doesn’t track eight-track sales.

Some brand new eight tracks are still made and sold. From her house in Arlington, Texas, Kathy Gibson, owner of KTS Productions, can crank out 10 an hour by hand, if the splicing machine isn’t acting up and friends don’t call on the phone to chat.

Last year, Cheap Trick, an American rock band that still performs but had its heyday in the late 1970s, placed a small order for its new album. It was popular enough that they asked for a second—and third—batch, she says. They are currently on back order, says the band’s manager.

Eight tracks still show up on eBay and can command a premium. A quadraphonic eight track tribute album to the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin recently fetched $152. Mr. Burnett says finding some tapes—anything by trumpeter Miles Davis for instance—is really tough.

Mr. Burnett, who got his first job at a now-defunct Dallas record store in 1974 after winning an Alice Cooper-look-alike contest, didn’t start collecting eight tracks until 1988, when he found an odd looking copy of the Beatles’ White Album at a flea market. He decided to build a complete eight-track collection of the Fab Four, an endeavor that took more than two decades.

Along the way, he started selling eight tracks at his record store—by accident. He displayed a tape of the British punk band the Sex Pistols that he had bought for a dime on the wall near the cash register of his store.

“To ward off potential purchases and because I didn’t want to sell it,” he put a $100 price tag on it. “Then one day this girl came in and pulled a c-note out of her purse and bought it.”

He recently sold off a good chunk of his CD collection to raise money to buy a few hard-to-find eight tracks for the gallery show. He hopes the permanent museum, whenever and wherever that might be, will be self supporting. He plans to charge a $5 admission fee.

Until that day, he continues working part-time jobs as a cashier at a local bakery and record store. His love of music—mostly classic rock—is keeping him going while he tries to turn his dream of a museum into a reality.

A couple nights a week, after his wife goes to sleep, he unwinds by listening to an album on headphones.

He doesn’t own a working eight-track player. “Collectors buy things, they don’t use things,” he says. Instead, Bucks Burnett listens to his music on compact disc.

One-Track Mind About Eight Tracks

Omaha’s City Council has made its recommendation regarding an adult store’s application to sell alcohol. And it doesn’t bode well for Basic Tease Boutique, 13th & Howard.



The store sells grown-up novelties and offers pole dance exercise classes. The owner wanted to offer grown-up drinks, too.


 
 

But in a unanimous vote Tuesday, the City Council denied license approval. They will send their recommendation to the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission, which will ultimately decide.



Basic tease has been in business for five years, When it moved downtown seven months months ago, owner Tamara Heasler-Webster brought in a stripper’s pole. “It’s an exercise class, and it’s just good fun,” she said.



She thought her customers could have more fun if they could buy alcohol. Heasler-Webster wanted a liquor license so she could offer drinks at special events, like bachelorette parties. She said those events could potentially include strippers.



“It would get people interested in what was going on in the store,” she said. “The ladies are down here anyway. They’re usually staying in a hotel, they’re being responsible.” Heasler-Webster said she didn’t wan to run a bar, but provide customers with a pre-bar crawl activity.



Some question just how responsible liquor sales at her establishment would be. Neighbor and county commissioner Mike Boyle has been the most vocal. “Right across the street, if they start having trouble making money, they’re going to have strippers. There’s no question about it. What’s to stop them?”



Another neighbor also objected Tuesday, before the Council vote. “The old market is key to revitalizing downtown,” said Marsha Congdon. “I think if the city council votes to approve this, we’ve just started a slippery slope to have the Old Market turn into the kind of place that’s not going to attract families.”



District 3 Councilman Chris Jerram said his mind had not changed since the issue was laid over two weeks ago. “I think the type of establishment, if you are concerned with events. You have another option available to you,” he told Heasler-Webster. “You can hire a caterer.”



Of the unanimous vote to deny the license, Heasler-Webster said, “It’s a little surprising. I thought at least one council member would approve.”



She added, “I wish that people were a little bit more open-minded. I’m not selling anything that isn’t easily accessible at the mall.”



Boyle said he thinks the Council’s decision will weigh heavily as liquor control commissioners decide the fate of her license request.



Either way, Heasler-Webster has said she will continue to host bachelorette parties and the like, and she will continue her pole dance exercise classes.


 
 
 

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Many women tend to buy/wear red underwear. Hell, it’s the color of the season! But, how red do men want us to be?

A research has shown that men hardly care for the red. As the matter of fact, most of them find it non attractive! What is it that they want then? Black! More than half men (from the research) said that red is not their fantasy color…they prefer black laundry!

For many years, red underwear was “the sexiest” thing to wear. But the newest research said that most man don’t fancy red that much. More than 50% men said that red is the worst underwear color. Second is pink and the third on the list is skin-like.

Women, however, buy red underwear when they want to impress and seduce their man. But, men are quite simple! Most of them like black underwear while the following group says white is the sexiest!

Now that you’ve seen the statistics, don’t suffer. Maybe you outta buy something that suits you best – white cotton (remember Bridget Jones!)

Or maybe some black lace? Anyhow, happy Valentine’s!

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Wine is a cultivated taste of a delicately cultivated product, a source of savored satisfaction and nuance, a living liquid that rewards reflection and restraint. The haute-trash Ed Hardy brand — as near as I can parse it — represents getting wasted in Las Vegas and leaving your $50 trucker hat in the cab on the way to the airport.

And yet, of course, I am wrong. The Audigier empire is pillared on a single brilliant concept, which is the ecumenical emptiness of branding itself.

A little background: Audigier, who is from Avignon, France, but lives in Los Angeles, began his career as a designer of pret-a-porte jeans and other clothing. He made his branding bones as the tastemaker behind Von Dutch, based on the graphical work of L.A. pin-striping artist Kenny Howard. Audigier is, in fact, the fashion criminal behind the Von Dutch trucker hat (worn by the likes of Ashton Kutcher, Britney Spears, Madonna and a billion loutish wannabes).

In 2004, Audigier scored a licensing agreement with tattoo and graphics artist Don Ed Hardy, a Bay Area legend in ink, and soon Ed Hardy graphic designs began appearing on, well, everything: T-shirts, hoodies, purses and perfume, socks and sunglasses, barware and bedding, swimwear and underwear. The brand has pretty much exploded.

Audigier’s conglomerate now comprises eight global brands — including the modestly titled Christian Audigier imprint — and more than 75 licensees. Las Vegas nightclub, Beverly Hills boutique . . . you feel me, dog? There is, apparently, no shark Audigier dare not jump. In March, Audigier announced a licensing agreement with Beverly Hills “celebrity” dentist Eric Fugier to create a line of Ed Hardy branded toothbrushes, dental floss and mouthwash. Ay ay ay.

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In addition, it’s much easier to comparison shop online, and you could wind up paying significantly less than the sticker price if you visit coupon websites like Retail Me Not before purchasing. Just in keep in mind that most retailers will not accept stockings returns once the package is open, so make sure you want what you’re buying.

2) International Brands. If you’re a European lingerie fanatic (like me!) , then you know that lots of fantastic lingerie brands simply aren’t available in the US. In this case, online shopping is a godsend.

Before buying anything, though, you need to know your measurements, your converted lingerie size for that particular country or label, and the shipping & return policies for the retailer. It’s also a good idea to do a quick web search and see if anyone has had complaints with the store. As always, you can contact me; I’ve bought from more websites than I can write about.

3) Vintage. E-bay is one of the great online resources for vintage lingerie addicts. I’ve seen some of the most extraordinary pieces at the most extraordinary prices over there. I’ll do a more detailed post on how to buy lingerie from E-bay in the next couple of weeks, but, for now the most important things to remember are that you need to check the seller’s feedback, shipping & return policies, and to always pay via Paypal.

What kind of lingerie do you like to buy online? Tell me in the comments!

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Council funds rumpus rocks Darwin

Posted in Bootnotes, 13th July 2007 13:13 GMT

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The lord mayor of Darwin remains defiant after being found guilty of stealing council funds to buy “a fridge, underwear and a Darth Vader voice distorter”, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Peter Adamson, 47, was convicted on four charges, including “stealing and making a false statement in declaration”. The court heard he’d gone on a “spending spree” with council cash “less than 24 hours before the end of the 2005/06 financial year”, in the process buying “a $910 fridge and $1,800 worth of gift vouchers”.

The gift vouchers were in turn used to buy “women’s underwear, the Star Wars character voice distorter, and a punching bag” – all later recovered from his home or office. The fridge eventually turned up in an East Timorese thrift store*, despite Adamson’s signed declaration he’d given it to a needy family. The gift vouchers, he also declared, were handed out to “various organisations for the purpose of fundraising”.

It’s the fridge scandal which has particularly incensed the locals. Adamson, who’s been on leave since December, further fuelled the controversy when he and his missus “attended a New Year’s Eve party dressed as the offending white good and a police officer”.

In the end, and despite his lawyer’s assertion that Adamson was “the victim of internal council backstabbing, likening him to a sacrificial lamb and his work environment to ‘a pool of sharks with blood in the water’”, magistrate Vince Luppino decided the defendant had “lied on a number of occasions” and duly rejected his defence.

Luppino said in his judgement: “I find that the defendant had the intention to deceive. The defendant did not intend to donate the fridge or the vouchers and instead he has used both as if they were his own property.”

Emerging from court, Adamson maintained his innocence and refused to resign, declaring to reporters: “I know, myself, that I at no stage stole or have been dishonest.”

He confirmed he was considering an appeal, describing it as “a very serious option”. He continued: “I need to consider all those things, but the reality is at the moment I have done everything up until now in the best interests of the city.

“I was voted in by the people of Darwin and I have tried to show that leadership. Obviously, I have been very disappointed with the behaviour of many of my colleagues, anyway… I’ve had my day in court and we’ll go from there.” ®

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*We assume the SMH means a thrift store in Darwin run by East Timorese, rather than a thrift shop run by East Timorese in East Timor. Mind you, stranger things have happened…

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The world could see that beneath the surface, Tibetans are human beings like everyone else, the only difference being our full gamut of emotions was on display on the global political stage to a greater extent than ever before.



We showed that we too want freedom, justice, democracy and to be able to live with dignity. Many non-Tibetan Buddhists were despondent – their imagined Tibet was shattered. One image resonates with me from 2008: CCP merchandise piled in a heap and burned by Tibetans. A stark symbol of how frustrated they were with being dehumanised and treated as second-class citizens in their own country. Their action demanded an end to 50 years of colonial rule, despite being born in a Tibet “liberated” from the darkest feudal system by “peaceful” CCP machineries.



Those fires triggered a memory of a campaign I heard as a school kid during the early 90s in India. It involved some exiled Tibetans in Dharamsala burning and destroying second-hand drinking thermoses- cheap Chinese products. I remember being inspired.



Fast-forward to 2010 in Australia. It is a different story. From frozen food to clothing, toys, electronic appliances, stationery, anti-virus software, prison officers’ and inmates’ clothing – even garlic comes from China. The whole world is a market where consumers have little choice but to buy “Made in China” products.



Here’s a grim irony: unbeknownst to me, during the 2008 March 10th and Olympic torch protests, I was kitted out in “Made in China” (MIC) clothing while I shouted my lungs out at the doorstep of the Chinese embassy in Australia’s capital city, Canberra, with other Tibetans who had bussed down from many states, without any pay (unlike thousands of CCP supporters paid a stipend to travel down and display the dragon’s fury – reportedly $300 a head).



Apart from my “Free Tibet” t-shirt, which was made in India, I was cloaked in CCP products. My pants, undies, socks and shoes were all manufactured in China. Little did I know that, inadvertently, I (and many others) am complicit in supporting the CCP. My money helps fund the CCP when it goes shopping for the best torture products money can buy on the international market – the products used to violate the private parts of political prisoners in Tibet. But this is just a glimpse.



Some of the CCP junkies in the embassy must have been laughing, seeing us outside crying with our MIC clothing, banners, microphone, sunglasses and placards. Apparently, even they prefer not to use their country’s home-made products. A little bird once told me that even the Politburo Standing Committee gangs and their families are more inclined to use non-CCP goods to be sure they are toxin-free. So, enough excuses …



I pledge, on March 10, 2010, I will follow in the footsteps of the Politburo member’s consumer choice – at least for one day outside the Chinese embassy. It is a pledge to all the brave men and women of Tibet inside CCP prisons. I will no longer bear my name on the electronic cattle-prods, batons or other torture products that suck the blood out of you. I pledge to you that I will be China-free this March 10th.



My preparations began during Christmas 2009. I went on a hunting spree for a t-shirt, pants, socks and underwear. I already had a pair of shoes not made in China.



Mission 1: Finding jeans



It took two hours (made in Pakistan) and this is all I could find within my budget. Hallelujah for Levis! Maybe on my next pilgrimage I can visit the Levis company headquarters and do a prostration? For the time being, I would like to thank them for saving me from potential nudity on March 10!



China-free, March 10



The ‘fashion fast’ kicked off last September 1 with 20 Americans, and has since grown to over 100 members from the United States, Denmark, Germany, Croatia, Serbia, Canada, Italy and Britain.



In this unconventional diet, participants can devour as much as they like – so long as it is existing clothes in their closets. So they will have to rummage through their wardrobes and make do with what they have. They cannot purchase new clothing, save for underwear, footwear and accessories (like jewellery and scarves, which can help refresh the wardrobe) until Sept 1, 2010. They are, however, allowed to swap clothes with friends and accept gifts of new clothes from friends and family. But fasters cannot specifically request new clothes as gifts.



The woman who mooted the movement is Sally Bjornsen, 46, of Seattle, in the United States. Realising that she was wearing mostly jeans and T-shirts, yet has a closet full of clothes and was giving away clothes which she had never or hardly wore, she decided to examine why she was driven to shop.



Out of that exploration, The Great American Apparel Diet was born.



“I want to see what life is like when women just say no to the new apparel pick-me-up,” writes Bjorsen in the group’s website.



“A lot of women in the programme currently spend a fair amount of time planning, pondering and preparing their wardrobes. This preoccupation is usually motivated by what they want at that moment rather than what they actually need. As a result, a lot of us end up with a bunch of weird things in our closets. All that time and energy could be re-focused towards other creative endeavours. Who knows how much time, money and energy will be saved on the diet.”



Bjorsen admits that the experiment is a stretch for many of the fashion “dieters” as they are, after all, women who used to buy, buy, buy. Ranging in age from 19 to 60, they come from all walks of life and many are self-confessed shopaholics. One admits to having over 70 pairs of jeans and over 100 dresses, while another has to buy something new every day. And one does not wear her clothes more than two times.



Yup, these women desperately need help to wean them off their addiction. They blog about their efforts and support each other at TheGreatAmericanApparel Diet.com. Their reasons for joining the movement vary; and it is not just to save money. For some, it was simply a personal choice to re-evaluate their shopping habits. Some just wanted to clear closet clutter while others wanted to consume less and be friendlier to the environment. Some just wanted a challenge.



“I have enough clothes to last a lifetime. I’ve realised with age that I will always have enough and I will always feel like I never have enough. And I need to learn to live with that. Period,” writes designer Stephanie Greco, 49.



Laura Zielinski, 42, a Malaysian technology executive and online shopping aficionado, hopes that with less time spent shopping, she can pursue her other passions, such as cooking and gardening. “I spend too much time thinking and talking with people about clothes. I want to dedicate brain space to other things,” she writes.



Many participants have found the apparel diet “do-able”, since most have way too much stuff in their closets anyway. Says one woman: “There are people living in abject poverty all over the world, people who never wear anything new, and I can’t manage a year?”



One dieter says it is easy to forego shopping if you already have a pretty well-stocked closet in the first place. All you need to do is to accessorise to update the look. For some, however, the diet is proving hard to stick to than initially thought. Quite a few have crashed their diet and bought clothing that they felt they just had to have or which were on sale.



Six months into the diet, some dieters found that foregoing shopping has a host of benefits. Stephanie Greco says in an interview with Time: “I’ve learned that I need very little. I may want a lot more, but I certainly don’t need it. I’ve learned that we are used to so much excess we can’t even see it. In terms of my shopping habits, I’ve learned that I like not having it as an option to pass time. It’s one less thing to think about and I find it kind of liberating.”



Tricia Young realised a few weeks into the diet that she could have a new wardrobe if she put different things together. “I’m loving wearing things I have owned for years and never wore. I’m also discovering new hobbies instead of shopping during my free time. I’m saving money in other areas as well because I’m avoiding shopping areas.”



And for Bjornsen, the woman who started it all and whose clothing expenditures used to touch US$5,000 annually, the diet has transformed her into a responsible consumer.



“I am no longer beholden or hypnotised by the idea that fashion isn’t good unless it is brand new. Fashion is about personal style and how you wear things. I have become interested in creative ways to be fashionable without being so ‘consumptive’. I am now more interested in where apparel is made and how it is made. I definitely think that at the end of the year, I will shop differently,” she told Time.



Come Sept 1, 2010, the women will be allowed back into malls, department stores and online websites. But, will they want to?



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Koichi Wakata models J-Ware socks. Credit: NASA. Inset: J-Space/JAXA, via collectSPACE

Remember the “long duration underwear” tested out by Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata on board the ISS last year? Now you can buy your very own. The specially designed undies and other clothing called “J-ware” are on sale now for 10,500 yen or about $115 USD. J-ware is treated with antibacterial and deodorizing materials, so they can be worn for long periods of and are resistant to odors. “(For) two months I was wearing these underwear and there was no smell and nobody complained,” said Wakata. “I think that new J-ware underwear is very good for myself and my colleagues.”

Hurry, sizes and quantities are limited.

Here’s the English translation of the J-ware website,
and the original Japanese version.

In addition to odor control, the clothes are designed to absorb water, insulate the body and dry quickly. They also are flame-resistant and anti-static.

Typically, clothes can only be worn for a few days in space, and especially the clothing worn by astronauts as they exercise. Since there’s no laundromat in space, the clothing is discarded as garbage.

Astronaut Takao Doi, who flew with a shuttle crew in early 2009 to deliver Japan’s Kibo laboratory to the station, exercised as much as his crewmates, but his clothes stayed dry.

Wakata’s clothes include long- and short-sleeved shirts, pants, shorts and underwear. Special socks have a separate pouch for the big toes (see top image) so the astronauts can use their feet like an extra pair of hands, helpful for anchoring themselves on the floor while doing work on the station.

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