Deconstructing my day as manifest by my stereo

(a photo essay of sorts)

so a couple of weeks ago my mini stereo unit stopped letting me play, access, use, take out, put in, or listen to cds. So after a couple of weeks of listening to the radio and realizing that i can't stand the Smashing Pumpkins, I had had enough. It also had a cassette player but that had broken years ago.

so i decided today to go get a new stereo. On my way to the subway, i saw this innovative attachment to a fire hydrant. Most time, people just open up the fire hydrant to act as a super lawn sprinkler except it sprinkles on the street and by sprinkles i mean deluges. But this nice attachment makes it so much less water cannon and much more water spritzer.

it even created pools for the pigeons to play. I hate pigeons though.









so i bought a new stereo and set it up. It has only one cd slot. My old one had five. It doesn't have a cassette player and yes i still listen to my old mix tapes - well i would if i had a working tape player. I love tapes and now officially don't have any way to listen to them. Just 100's of tapes in a drawer. But now i can plug my mp3 player into the stereo.

I realized, though, that i still had five cds locked in the old one. So i began to take it apart.










and i succeeded - yippee. Crap, but i still had a cassette tape (every 6 months or so in a fit of optimism i would try to see if it would again). so the eject no longer worked so i had to take that apart too.


but i succeeded. and these are the fruits of my efforts.









The End.

My deconstructed day as seen through a deconstructed stereo.

ps. i am pretty sure i have a mouse in the house and it makes me not want to go to bed. That and it being Sunday.