Baby got B-E-A-T

I guess this is growing up... When I was leaving Texas for my future in California, my mother made me buy a car! The best form of revenge I could come up with for her imposition of practicality on my life was to buy ridiculous after-market audio equipment. We got rid of the sports car I drove in high school in order to haul everything I could in my new wheels across the desert to my new digs. I had to quickly put a stop to that rationality!

I bought a huge sub woofer and speaker box and put it smack in the middle of my luxurious trunk. Then I added the necessary power for the monster sub by installing an amplifier that needed a foot of airspace on all sides...trunk...getting...smaller. AND, in order to run power to it, I made the mistake of letting my darling older brother help me and we ended of cannibalizing the appropriate cables and connectors, only to blow fuses and have to rig makeshift parts in their places. So I have a Frankenstein cable running from my battery through a HOLE that I helped drill through my firewall! I doubt she ever knew what all I did to the poor new car that she was paying for. Aw, Mom.

However, 7 years and many miles later with my cute lil' Elantra, I am reaching the point in my life to regenerate my transportation, for some of the same reasons I did in '02 and some opposite ones. I have worked very hard to succeed in my field, I have scrimped and saved through hard times and good, and saved up a pretty purse to put down on a toy car. That blog should follow, but this one is about the jams!

So I have spent the last two weeks kicking out the jams, busting up some funk and trying to give tribute to an audio oasis that I have often escaped to in the brutal traffic of LA freeways. I am taking out the sub and player, stripping power cables and attempting to yield some cash for the many dollars I spent many moons ago. The inspiration for the system itself stemmed from my love for a certain Sublime song that just wasn't sounding right in Emma before the upgrade, and now I shall refer again...I am waiting for my ruca.