My own challenge -- 50€ in a month HOW IT ENDED

Remember my My own challenge -- 50€ in a month?

It's the fourth of February, and I'm telling you how it ended.

I managed to save the incredible amount of (snare rolls)..

61 Euros!!

It was really a challenge as I tried to buy only what I really needed -- and I've learnt I need a few things.

I used to buy 3-4 CD a month, and end up listening once to each one.. I didn't buy any CD in January and instead listened to a couple of ones I already had. I discovered some great things!

Desiré, Abraxas and Spirits Having Flown. 

I also managed to eat better at school; I was used to drink a Coke and a trashy snack each morning, now I buy an orange juice with a healty croissant. I also save about 0.2€

All in all, this month i learnt how to save money and how to organize my financees -- let's hope to do it the right way in the future!

By the way, the aim of all of this was to buy a Sony RH1, the last Hi-MD device ever built.. in the previous post you canr ead why I love this.

So you may be thinkin' ''When you gonna buy it?''.

I am askin' myself the same question and can't get no satisfiyng reply.

Probably I won't buy it. 

Why?

Well, I already have a nice recorder, the Sony NH900 and I'm not in the need of another recorder. I'm planning to record a gig in April and two in May, so..

I also have bought a new mobile phone, a Nokia 5230, and I use it as an mp3 player when I get the bus on my way home Iy's an excellent phone, I don't kind of the camera (''only'' 2 megapixels) or not having Wi-Fi (there are no spots here!!), it has GPS and it's touch-screen.. I was very sceptic about this, but at the end it's a great thing and now I can text long and difficult messages with ease. Next step is to subscrive to a mobile Internet connection.

So you can see I have no reasons to buy the RH1.. 

Instead I'll use the money in one of those 3 ways:

1. continue to save (which I'll do for sure) money to add to those 61€

2. put them on a PC I'm buying

3. save for a Line6 Pod XT

At the moment I'm favouring the last option.. man, the Pod XT is fabolous!! I can get a lot of great tones.. I'll keep you updated of my choice.

In the meantime, let's have a smokin' 10 minutes break with Ahmad Jamal:

51 anni fa

Era il 3 Febbraio del lontano, freddo e fumoso 1959 quando verso le prime ore del giorno un aereo, appena decollato, si schiantò al suolo. Tutti morti i 4 passeggeri, tra cui Buddy Holly, una speranza, la promessa della musica rock and roll, l' Elvis Presley di molti (me incluso).
Quel giorno, come disse Don McLean, la musica morì, ed è difficile dargli torto.
Difficile biasimare Buddy o trovare in lui delle ombre, difficile trovare un motivo per non reputarlo un dio, un profeta, un apostolo del rock and roll, quella musica che stava scoppiando tra la gente come il tappo di uno spumante troppo agitato.
Non sono il suo biografo, non ho la sua discografia nè potrei tenere un discorso coerente sulla sua figura; mi limito a scrivere un commento in suo onore, mettere sul giradischi una compilation della DeAgostini e ascoltare in religioso silenzio quella musica che probabilmente allora era davvero qualcosa di nuovo, qualcosa di mai visto prima in un' America che mi piace ricordarla come l' America di Fonzie, Ricky Cunnigham e Happy Days.








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