This morning I hopped on a SkTrain bound for the Main Street / Science World SkyTrain Station. My destination was Long & McQuade on Terminal Street in Vancouver. They are Canadian dealers for musical equipment and had one of the few, tiny, remaining Roland S-1 Synthesizers available in all of BC, I think. The Surrey branch would've been closer but the item was out of stock.
It was of no matter because going to that part of downtown Vancouver takes exactly 25 minutes by SkyTrain from New West. I walked five minutes from the station, bought the synth, and returned home in under an hour.
Oh my. The picture doesn't do the retail section of the store justice. It felt cavernous but fully packed with musical equipment. It was the first time I'd ever been in their doors. The day started off a bit rainy but had pretty much cleared up by 10:15 am.
Now I have a new little toy to play with. The tiny 'synth' and the software I loaded on my computer for manipulation of sound and midi files should keep me learning new things for quite a stretch. I love finding out about new things. Accidently discovering more about the topic of electronic music last week seemed like prying the curtains back on a secret little club that nobody had ever mentioned to me. Earlier today, I wrote to friends in Whatsapp (using a perfectly acceptable double negative and ending with a preposition):
"There's nothing that I don't want to learn, at least, a little bit about."