Hit Play on your Home Improvement; Simple steps to make your home gorgeous
Mark offers hardware in the form of Heavy Metal and Pscyadelic Rock.
By Tom Peterson
The Dalles, Ore, Sept. 4, 2024 — Home improvement, the bane of every household.
You know when you’re done working on your house? When you’re dead.
But what if I told you you were going about it all wrong?
Well, you are.
We just got some advice from Mark Thomas here in The Dalles, and he has a very simple solution that requires no paint, no busted knuckles, and no clean-up.
And that goes for all housework from doing the dishes to cleaning the gutters.
“Housework, I could really just leave it,” he said. “I’m not a skilled craftsman.”
But Mark said he can improve his home anytime he wants with some simple steps.
Take the CD, Album, or Cassette from the shelf.
Put said music into your stereo system.
Hit play and turn the volume to 7.
Music, it just so happens, can quickly turn a dated room into a mecca of beautiful sound and joy.
Who cares how old the carpet is when Kacey Musgraves is in the Same Trailer Different Park.
Above - a whole starter kit of improvement items to make your house a home.
So while others are replacing countertops or adding cabinetry to the laundry room, Mark contemplates the sound of Wings’ One Hand Clapping.
The album began as a rockumentary starring Paul McCartney and his then-band, Wings, and directed by David Litchfield. It was recorded over four days in August 1974 at Abbey Road Studios in London.
And who needs a nail gun when you can blast the Sex Pistols?
The raw energy and cultural force of the band's seminal and only album from 1977 is sure to provide some jarring and timeless guitar tapestry that will hang in your living room raw and primal. So, yeah - Never Mind the Bullocks.
Or perhaps you’re looking for a No Name product to re-rock the fireplace.
Jack White’s nameless release will light a fire under that project.
White gets back to his White Stripe roots on this album with some fun rock-n-roll. The DIY album is Rough on Rats and finishes with a Terminal Archemeny Endling.
And don’t forget the curb appeal. Look to the classic stylings of Abby Road for inspiration.
Open your front door as you overheat your amplifier as Maxwell’s Silver Hammer swings through your neighborhood.
They’ll thank you for it.
And they’ll give you a pass on the overgrown lawn.
You can Find Mark Thomas at Yesterday & Today New and Used Music at 414 E. Second St., The Dalles, Monday through Saturday.
