seattle's saltiest camera

those of you that know the Ave, and have been inside Jim's Camera, used camera cum junk shop, know the proprieter's signature disdain and general air of condescension and irritable indolence. So i was trying to track down a specific camera part for my trip to nyc


This is the voicemail message he had going. Note: this message was still playing monday at 10:47am when I recorded it - favorite new word: "taco-smoke"


by the way, the u-district street fair was for me great, after working indoors saturday, we walked the ave and checked out seattle's best andean flute band playing in 11 man formation in the twilight as the festival was dying down. - reminded me of living in Tokyo and hanging out listening to peruvian music echo through Oimachi train station. My all-time hero, Beat Takeshi's prod. company's movie Ikinai features Andean music over shots of the Okinawan countryside. I wonder if Takeshi got into them through hearing them outside of train stations