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Wow. I've worked, taken deliveries, taken the recycling, bought groceries, taken Dom to Borders, taken Tony to Conrad's, made spaghetti sauce, let Deron steal music from my hard drive, and played catch.

I am now ripping Shang-A-Lang's Sad Magic LP to MP3, because it is a vinyl-only release, and Fast Crowd doesn't believe in download codes. Woo! ( Read more... )

The annual Audio Reader benefit record sale, For Your Ears Only, is this Friday evening ( Read more... )

While looking for records at the League, I made the find of the fucking century. I've lucked out and found some cool exotica records here and there for cheap or free that go for some coin, but this takes the cake.

There was this 3 disc 78 collection entitled Music Out of the Moon that looked intriguing. When I saw it was A) Theremin music and B) ( Read more... )

Well, I braved the scrum of folks in front of Arensbergs this morning to get a good deal on shoes. I've been lacking in winter footwear lately, and have been foiled by cheap shoes that continually run a half size too small for my feet. Seriously - Timberlands, Rockports, Docs... all at or around five bucks, and perfectly broken in, and all just a ( Read more... )

Well, more like I win. Just got an e-mail from Vinyl Collective informing me that I just won a test pressing of Wardogs' Spread the Disease. When you buy new records that they're distributing, they usually enter you in a contest to win a test press of that album ( Read more... )

I pre-ordered a coupla records from Vinyl Collective a month back, and didn't read close enough. Basically, the Teenage Bottlerocket / Broadway Calls split came out a week or two ago, but the Dillinger Four repress of More Songs About Girlfriends and Bubblegum doesn't come out until next week ( Read more... )

Dammit. I know my copy of the Broadway Calls / Teenage Bottlerocket split is on its way. The waiting is fucking killing me, tho'. I also don't want it to get stuck in the mailbox for five hours and turn into warped, unplayable (but pretty) crap ( Read more... )

Whew. The station has been cleaned and organized like crazy.

I discovered that cream cheese and bacon pizza is delicious agony.

The bakery is doing well.

Sunflower Bike still doesn't have any cable locks for my bike ( Read more... )

the_lucky_nun and I blew off a night of watching the Spook Lights and hanging out with folks we like so Tony could maintain the tenuous friendship he has left. Being as how he's managed to alienate and / or offend pretty much every other kid who's deigned to hang out with him, it seems important to make sure that he doesn't lose the one kid who doesn't fear him ( Read more... )