How you doing? I am a Russki young guy who came to America looking for better life. Back in Russia I have never been wealthy, not even close to middle class, I was dirt poor. Not mepersonally, per-say, but my loved ones. In Russia young adults did not require money back when I was growing up, and therefore we needed to find ways to earn money. Different schemes, mostly something much like alcoholics asking neighbors for a few dollars for their communal vodka bottle. That is almost the same, we would go around looking for ways to earn a few quick bucks to go buy a loaf of bread. We're always hungry. .
And so I made it to America, been here for a while, seen most of the East Coast from Boston all the way down to Miami and Key West and all the way into the middle states. But is nowhere like New York, Brooklyn, Brighton Beach. That place really reminds me of home. It's loud, it's dirty, it is filled with Russian language, people are rude, well, just a normal Russian city bliss. I have spend quite a bunch of money there, mostly seeing Russian restaurants and music and books stores.
I love music, and I really like to read books. However, as it happens recently it is simple to find Russian literature on Kindle. And so I stopped buying hard copy books, and I don't actually have much room in my home, my wife is almost a hoarder, so I do everything possible to not contribute to this, including avoiding buying new stuff that I don't really need laying around the house, as I have nowhere to put it... Stacks of books seems intelligent first few months, then they only looked sad, until I put them into garage, where there is still some space left for my own things. .
But music, - music is different. My job involves a lot of driving, so I listen to tons of music. And as an old Russian immigrant, I haven't learned to like any new music I discovered here in the USA. . I simply don't like rap, hip hop, rock, pop and metal. And all of the new age things that kids like to dance to. . I truly love old Russian songs, and the prison type tunes that are very unique to Russian music world. They are still popular there after 20 years I have been away, and they aren't something that gets on CDs, - mostly tapes in cars, and Youtube videos. And so I spend hours using Youtube playing music when I am back home on day off or just after work.
And so after some time I have created a nice long playlist of over 300 songs I really love. Having this treasure on repeat night and day, I don't have any problem getting used to music, since there's 300 songs, that is a lot. But then when I wish to hear them in my car, I don't have any world wide web to spare, I want it for driving, for navigation. So I do the preparation at home. I've in the middle of the list now, I list a few songs from Youtube into mp3 files, and then I burn those mp3s on a CD with my notebook, and then I bring CD to the car and listen. This site I foundit can take Youtube playlist and print out all of the tunes in it, and every song can be subsequently converted to mp3 and saved to my home computer. Then it's easy to move it to audio CD. Occasionally I make mistake and just make data CD, that will not play in my old car stereo. But when audio is recorded - it's amazing how technology works, I don't need to be online, I don't require any gadgets to play mp3, I simply insert CD into my car stereo slot and here the audio from Russia is booming in the middle of Manhattan, when I get there while driving around.
It's easy and cheap to copy videos from Youtube as mp3 and you can put them on your Smartphone. I saw a friend of mine attached his telephone to car stereo, and it had been playing very good quality sound, just in two seconds. He was also able to flow Pandora radio and Spotify, so it is not even needing too quickly of Internet for this. . But of course I will be careful to use free wifi.
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