Ooooooooooooh shit.....Well life is grand and I will say this at the risk of falling from favor from those of you who have appointed yourselves to expect me to say something darker...
The whole life is grand motif of this entry stems not from some magical Valentine's Day miracle of me having someone to actually share it with....nay, the real reason for my joyousness is that I went a-shopping today. I found a copy of Federico Felini's La Dolce Vita for $25 brand new which is about $10-15 less than I had ever seen it for sale. But, that is not the true cause either....the thing that has me amazingly happy is that I stumbled across a particular CD for sale...See, many years ago I sifted through a dollar bin of tapes at the local record store. I dropped a shitload of money on tapes, some were good, some were awful...a couple of them were amazing. Now, I haven't listened to casettes in awhile and I have been trying to transfer most everything to CD. There was one amazingly outstanding album that eluded me. I had never seen it for sale. Well, kids, today I found it. I am now the proud owner of one of my all-time favorite albums: The Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville...it's every bit as great as I remember it. I also placed an order for two Dead Milkmen ones that I don't have on CD yet: Chaos Rules: Live at the Trocadero and Beelzebubba (I know, I should already own Beelzebubba, but I just hadn't gotten around to getting it on CD yet; I can still sing most every song though from memory!).
Other than that, I went and got an oil change. I went thrift store shopping, but couldn't find anything really good. Oh, and last night I ordered an assload of movies from Oldies.com; they were $5.95 per or 5/$25, so I found 10 that I wanted. The best include The Trial (Orson Welles directing Kafka and starring Anthony perkins....top that, bitches), The General (So I can finally see what all this Buster Keaton hype is aboot), As You Like It (Sir Laurence Olivier playing the lead in a better than average Shakespeare comedy) and Foolish Wives (a 1922 silent movie directed by Erich von Stroheim who would go on to play director-turned-butler Max von Mayerling in Sunset Blvd.)
The whole life is grand motif of this entry stems not from some magical Valentine's Day miracle of me having someone to actually share it with....nay, the real reason for my joyousness is that I went a-shopping today. I found a copy of Federico Felini's La Dolce Vita for $25 brand new which is about $10-15 less than I had ever seen it for sale. But, that is not the true cause either....the thing that has me amazingly happy is that I stumbled across a particular CD for sale...See, many years ago I sifted through a dollar bin of tapes at the local record store. I dropped a shitload of money on tapes, some were good, some were awful...a couple of them were amazing. Now, I haven't listened to casettes in awhile and I have been trying to transfer most everything to CD. There was one amazingly outstanding album that eluded me. I had never seen it for sale. Well, kids, today I found it. I am now the proud owner of one of my all-time favorite albums: The Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville...it's every bit as great as I remember it. I also placed an order for two Dead Milkmen ones that I don't have on CD yet: Chaos Rules: Live at the Trocadero and Beelzebubba (I know, I should already own Beelzebubba, but I just hadn't gotten around to getting it on CD yet; I can still sing most every song though from memory!).
Other than that, I went and got an oil change. I went thrift store shopping, but couldn't find anything really good. Oh, and last night I ordered an assload of movies from Oldies.com; they were $5.95 per or 5/$25, so I found 10 that I wanted. The best include The Trial (Orson Welles directing Kafka and starring Anthony perkins....top that, bitches), The General (So I can finally see what all this Buster Keaton hype is aboot), As You Like It (Sir Laurence Olivier playing the lead in a better than average Shakespeare comedy) and Foolish Wives (a 1922 silent movie directed by Erich von Stroheim who would go on to play director-turned-butler Max von Mayerling in Sunset Blvd.)
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If i were up there i probably would hate snow, too. i would be scared to try and drive it and everything, but i bet it is gorgeous and i would love to go do those really cheesy snow things.. snowmen, etc.