shrinkboy
08-06-2007, 07:25 AM
i've been trying to decide whether i'd do this or not, and i guess i have. was reluctant at first.
i followed a path familiar to many of you to AK. about 6 years ago, my wife almost sold all my old records in a garage sale, a lot of Blue Note, Chess, Prestige stuff that had followed me around since the 70's. i nipped that just in time, but then decided i'd explore them again after decades of disuse. this meant getting out the technics sl-1700 TT and getting it going, which necessitated a web search for some guidance on its rejuvenation, which necessitated a phone call to joel at the Turntable factory (RIP, joel).
while searching info on the technics, i found a ton of cool stuff on the web about audio, and decided to use what i had on hand to remount a phono based stereo system. this included a dreadful, and i do mean DREADFUL Realistic receiver, a pair of Minimus 12's (larger, 5 1/4" woof, cone tweet Minimus 7's) that i'd had forever.
by this time, i'd discovered Home Audio on ebay, and was trying to decide to make the leap and buy from there. on a trip to Phoenix in fall 2001 to visit my brother, we visited a place called Buzz Jensen's which sold new audio, but had a trade-in/resale room. we walked around hypnotized by the wealth of great, mind bending legendary audio. i found a Yamaha cr-450 receiver in wood that brought back the early 70s like a punch to the jaw, bought it for $70, and from that point, i was off and running on the vintage audio obsession.
stumbled around like a drunk sailor on the web, and made some bad decisions (how about a pair of beaten but good sounding AR 2ax's from Oak Tree for...ahem...$300?) <i've never admitted that anywhere before. anyway, finally started getting my bearings and understanding of what to look for and what to stay away from. i came to AK when looking for some help with some tube amps in 2003. i quickly realized i am way too much of a liberal arts major to really do much technical stuff, although i have rehabbed some crossovers and stuff like that.
with a handle like 'shrinkboy' it should be obvious what i do for a living, having been in private practice since 1983, and in the field since 1978. undergrad here in dallas at a small liberal arts catholic school called university of dallas, and then to duquesne university, pittsburgh pa for grad work. back to dallas and into 'the field'....my work now is married couples, individuals, late teens. a strong presence in my office is survivors of sexual abuse/molestation/rape. this is a mind boggling presence in our society, and enough said there. i also do what is called 'coaching' with professionals, lawyers and doctors, helping them with personal marketing (one to one), business communications, leadership, internal relations.
for about 10 years, i have also been involved in film acting, have gotten involved on a whim, took classes, got an agent. i've done some commercials, did some improv comedy (what a BLAST!!), but have really decided that because of my more lucrative commitments, i would focus on independant film (although i did have a tiny part in the nick nolte film The Beautiful World, 2004). i've done about 7 or 8 of them. just finished shooting a part in a horror film where in my first scene i establish that i am enough of an asshole that i deserve to die, and then in my next scene, i die a horrible, gruesome, agonizing death.
i also write screenplays, have one in progress right now. also do poetry, and have won a national contest (the real thing, not the 'Poets Wanted' kind). contests are common in the 'real poetry' world, and are a typical way for people make their work known. i also got 2nd place in an international haiku contest way back in the 90's ....
another passion of mine is swimming, having come to it from marathoning/10k'ing in the 70s, early 80s, triathloning, then USCF bike racing in the 80s. running out of time in the mid 80s for bike racing, and after a horrible fall at the end of a big road race, i started looking for something else and found it with masters swimming. i had been a kid swimmer, and the masters coach i found was a famous peer of mine named jerry heidenreich, also from dallas. he went to the 72 olympics, where he touched silver in the 100 free half an arm length behind mr. spitz' gold, and then bronze in 100 fly. jerry was a legend around dallas, a colorful and self destructive human being who taught me everything he knew about swimming, and helped me attain high levels of master's success with a number of wins and top threes in my events of 50, 100, 200 freestyle. he killed himself in 2002, god rest his soul.
i've been married 33 years, have two more or less grown kids, an old grayhound named paloma and a youngish dachsund with one silver eye named ziggy. i have way too much gear, way way way too many records, but that' never enough. its more about the music for me, but i love good gear. i hope soon to be rehabbing a lenco TT i bought a while ago with a linn basik arm, and have contacted mopic5 for his help.
my avatar recently changed from the girl diver (i am near the peak of happiness when i'm 100 feet underwater on a wall in the caribbean) to my one of my deepest inspirations, carl jung.
gosh, i said a lot more than i intended to.
oh, the name: Jim Dolan, or, sometimes it appears on the web as James Dolan. you can go here: www.lotuseaters.net to see a bunch of stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with audio. or here: www.coach4lawyers.net for a little bit of my coaching work.
i followed a path familiar to many of you to AK. about 6 years ago, my wife almost sold all my old records in a garage sale, a lot of Blue Note, Chess, Prestige stuff that had followed me around since the 70's. i nipped that just in time, but then decided i'd explore them again after decades of disuse. this meant getting out the technics sl-1700 TT and getting it going, which necessitated a web search for some guidance on its rejuvenation, which necessitated a phone call to joel at the Turntable factory (RIP, joel).
while searching info on the technics, i found a ton of cool stuff on the web about audio, and decided to use what i had on hand to remount a phono based stereo system. this included a dreadful, and i do mean DREADFUL Realistic receiver, a pair of Minimus 12's (larger, 5 1/4" woof, cone tweet Minimus 7's) that i'd had forever.
by this time, i'd discovered Home Audio on ebay, and was trying to decide to make the leap and buy from there. on a trip to Phoenix in fall 2001 to visit my brother, we visited a place called Buzz Jensen's which sold new audio, but had a trade-in/resale room. we walked around hypnotized by the wealth of great, mind bending legendary audio. i found a Yamaha cr-450 receiver in wood that brought back the early 70s like a punch to the jaw, bought it for $70, and from that point, i was off and running on the vintage audio obsession.
stumbled around like a drunk sailor on the web, and made some bad decisions (how about a pair of beaten but good sounding AR 2ax's from Oak Tree for...ahem...$300?) <i've never admitted that anywhere before. anyway, finally started getting my bearings and understanding of what to look for and what to stay away from. i came to AK when looking for some help with some tube amps in 2003. i quickly realized i am way too much of a liberal arts major to really do much technical stuff, although i have rehabbed some crossovers and stuff like that.
with a handle like 'shrinkboy' it should be obvious what i do for a living, having been in private practice since 1983, and in the field since 1978. undergrad here in dallas at a small liberal arts catholic school called university of dallas, and then to duquesne university, pittsburgh pa for grad work. back to dallas and into 'the field'....my work now is married couples, individuals, late teens. a strong presence in my office is survivors of sexual abuse/molestation/rape. this is a mind boggling presence in our society, and enough said there. i also do what is called 'coaching' with professionals, lawyers and doctors, helping them with personal marketing (one to one), business communications, leadership, internal relations.
for about 10 years, i have also been involved in film acting, have gotten involved on a whim, took classes, got an agent. i've done some commercials, did some improv comedy (what a BLAST!!), but have really decided that because of my more lucrative commitments, i would focus on independant film (although i did have a tiny part in the nick nolte film The Beautiful World, 2004). i've done about 7 or 8 of them. just finished shooting a part in a horror film where in my first scene i establish that i am enough of an asshole that i deserve to die, and then in my next scene, i die a horrible, gruesome, agonizing death.
i also write screenplays, have one in progress right now. also do poetry, and have won a national contest (the real thing, not the 'Poets Wanted' kind). contests are common in the 'real poetry' world, and are a typical way for people make their work known. i also got 2nd place in an international haiku contest way back in the 90's ....
another passion of mine is swimming, having come to it from marathoning/10k'ing in the 70s, early 80s, triathloning, then USCF bike racing in the 80s. running out of time in the mid 80s for bike racing, and after a horrible fall at the end of a big road race, i started looking for something else and found it with masters swimming. i had been a kid swimmer, and the masters coach i found was a famous peer of mine named jerry heidenreich, also from dallas. he went to the 72 olympics, where he touched silver in the 100 free half an arm length behind mr. spitz' gold, and then bronze in 100 fly. jerry was a legend around dallas, a colorful and self destructive human being who taught me everything he knew about swimming, and helped me attain high levels of master's success with a number of wins and top threes in my events of 50, 100, 200 freestyle. he killed himself in 2002, god rest his soul.
i've been married 33 years, have two more or less grown kids, an old grayhound named paloma and a youngish dachsund with one silver eye named ziggy. i have way too much gear, way way way too many records, but that' never enough. its more about the music for me, but i love good gear. i hope soon to be rehabbing a lenco TT i bought a while ago with a linn basik arm, and have contacted mopic5 for his help.
my avatar recently changed from the girl diver (i am near the peak of happiness when i'm 100 feet underwater on a wall in the caribbean) to my one of my deepest inspirations, carl jung.
gosh, i said a lot more than i intended to.
oh, the name: Jim Dolan, or, sometimes it appears on the web as James Dolan. you can go here: www.lotuseaters.net to see a bunch of stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with audio. or here: www.coach4lawyers.net for a little bit of my coaching work.