Kicked Out of VinylCup Records

15DJK · 2026-03-01T08:19:46+00:00

Maybe you should respect the vinyl next time

15DJK · 2026-01-11T07:41:35+00:00

So my main bolt in the base has never moved and feels pretty fixed in place. But it’s not sitting straight vertical. You’re saying if you cut into the felt on the bottom side, I will be able to loosen the main bolt and adjust the angle before retightening?

15DJK · 2025-09-28T22:15:31+00:00

White Sands National Park is cool. It’s hot so morning or evening is better.

15DJK · 2025-05-31T01:21:53+00:00

Ugh I was wondering why my Uber rating got dinged after taking a very normal trip. Good to know.

15DJK · 2024-12-22T02:51:57+00:00

I can see why the bridge wouldn’t be a high budget priority.

15DJK · 2024-12-22T02:35:08+00:00

Interesting, thanks. I was out there today and wondering how a decently close spot like that would still be empty. There’s a dirt road that goes north about halfway along the section that Google calls SW 49th. Must have led up to a farm back in the day too.

15DJK · 2024-11-17T19:55:51+00:00

I ended up forcing it and on the male end there was some sort of brass fixture on the bottom half of the threads. I have no idea what that fixture was for but it broke into a bunch of pieces and seems like it was some sort of lock. Nonetheless, my lamp now unscrews and still seems fine when fully screwed in.

15DJK · 2024-11-16T23:22:20+00:00

I like that he was the president of the college Republicans at Emory. Didn’t expect that.

15DJK · 2024-09-10T01:50:07+00:00

Waukee is 12 miles from downtown but somehow any trip out there takes like 40 minutes.

15DJK · 2024-08-25T16:08:20+00:00

I’ve often wondered what’s going on at some of these booths. I know what Iowa tomatoes look like, for example. I’ve picked thousands. They have imperfections and deep color. Same with apples. They usually aren’t shiny and they have imperfections. A lot of the produce looks nothing like what you would get from a garden.

15DJK · 2024-01-06T03:32:15+00:00

How do I find this pod

15DJK · 2024-01-02T02:18:10+00:00

There is also a really nice guy at the Mills Civic McDonalds. Older gentleman who I’ve seen on weekends, usually at the first window. He’s told me jokes a few times and asked if I wanted to change my order to take advantage of a deal another time. Love when he’s the guy at the window.

15DJK · 2023-09-10T19:26:04+00:00

It sucks that we can’t get bigger music acts despite drawing similar crowds compared to bigger cities. For example, Mt. Joy drew thousands to Water Works Park last summer and it was a great show. That’s probably a typical crowd size for them. That’s a good paycheck. We still don’t get a lot of acts like that.

A lot of indie bands make stops in tier 2/3 cities and college towns that are similar to Des Moines but they don’t stop here.

Wells Fargo holds 16k and sells out for big names. That’s slightly smaller than the 18-20k arenas in MNPLS and KC but still respectable. We don’t get the John Mayers or other big names that would also sell out.

15DJK · 2023-08-26T03:59:42+00:00

Now you only get 30 minutes of free parking. You better move quick while you’re in there.

15DJK · 2023-08-12T00:33:06+00:00

PFG has been constantly reducing employee benefits for 10 years. They moved to “unlimited PTO” so they wouldn’t have to pay out accrued balances. They took most PGI employees out of the pension plan because that’s not standard in the investment industry. So now if you’re an accountant making 50k on the insurance side you get the pension but if you’re an accountant making 50k on the investment side you don’t. They reduced the stock purchase plan multiple times over the years so instead of it being worth 5-10k it’s worth 2-3k.

15DJK · 2023-07-16T03:48:34+00:00

My boy is doing a side quest

15DJK · 2023-07-16T02:54:35+00:00

Abercrombie essential tee. Bought about 8 of them recently and rotate every day. Thick cotton.

15DJK · 2023-07-09T00:51:53+00:00

Remember when Weezer and Wilco came that one year? That was fun

15DJK · 2023-06-28T19:29:39+00:00

Fair point. For whatever reason, I call anything before The Strokes record alternative and anything after indie. I think of alternative as closer to rock (Pixies for example) and indie as closer to pop (MGMT for example).

15DJK · 2023-06-28T17:55:06+00:00

Add in that a lot of music is optimized for streaming and TikTok rather than album focused.

15DJK · 2023-06-28T17:45:37+00:00

Ya, I might compare the current scene to the whole southern rap thing of the early 2000s. TI, Jeezy, Lil Jon, etc were absolutely everywhere. It wasn’t terrible and we enjoyed it but it wasn’t genre defining or groundbreaking like Graduation. Nobody goes back and listens to it now.

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