due to popular demand ; photos of the semi-complete mms office ::

in order ::

1) the picking cart
2) upgraded listening / transcription station
3) vietnamese shaker-table
4) visitor donations (the ploy is working !!!)
5) view from the couch … 

the remainder of the shelving has finally arrived ::

ten different seven-foot-tall unfinished wood beasts custom-built by the fine folks over @ boston wood. now i can finally get to filing the rest of cds (seen in images below housed in $5 plastic tubs stored on metro-shelving) - it’s been a strange few weeks ; cds with catalogue numbers starting with # - p have been easy to find, but locating anything starting with r - z has involved a hunt-and-peck scenario … also, recently i put together this little beauty ::

that’s the new stereo bench ; just enough room for the receiver / cd player and the turnable. the laptop on the stand gets a feed from the stereo, very usefuly for lp-transcription purposes … 

yesterday & today were the first real tests of the new setup; i must say things are considerably more streamlined now that all of the records & cds are finally up on shelves and accessible/findable again … i’ve gotten everyone’s orders sorted out & will be packing the remaining outstanding orders from before/during the move tomorrow morning…

… and the move is going well, i’d think. about half of the cds are over in the new space, waiting for their shelving units (which are being built as i type by the fine folks over @ boston wood) - everything’s currently living in tubs either on the floor or on some cheap & quite durable metro shelving (procured at the local branch of french mega-mart targét) : 

the shipping station arrives tomorrow, but the internet won’t until the 6th of february. refrigeration unit has been sourced, as has comfy sitting couch (thanks brian & kelly !!!) - still looking for a brushed-metal industrial grade garbage can, but i imagine these can be found locally …

today, for the first time i was there during the morning/early afternoon & i must say the sunlight coming in was quite lovely; as was the intermittent rumble of the commuter rail (the fitchburg line runs right behind the building, with a stop about 500 feet away in porter square … )

this afternoon i’ll be packing the remaining orders placed up until sunday @ midnight & shipping everything tomorrow morning. i imagine the space will be work-in-able by next monday, even w/o internet, so we’re pretty much on schedule for the resumption of activity on the 4th. exciting !!!

… figured it was about time to add one of these to the site; at the very least to announce forthcoming titles, tour dates for relevant artists, and post clips from zonked bollywood films :