the second time my parents, sister and i went to visit relatives in australia, “thriller” had just come out. sis and i had it on cassette tape and would play it loud on our sony walkman. i remember greasy chips on the corso at manly, the shark bells down at the beaches, hot hot summer nights, and lots of travels and adventures up and down the east coast of australia with harbord, nsw as the start and end point. how did manly change my life? that was the first summer i started actively collecting music. all of eleven years old, i was finally over my barry manilow record collection and headfirst into cassette tapes – especially recording songs from the radio (set giant sony walkman next to radio, press record, press pause a moment after announcer comes on) analong editing at its finest.