Record Theatre

[dragonlady7]

Dave was filled, today, with a hankerin' to go to the record store and buy music.
This is unusual. This is not an unknown thing, but it has not been done in quite some time. Years, perhaps. I used to hike down to my local Record Archive (local Rochester chain, two stores, $5 Used CD Saturdays) and browse the used bin. The guy behind the register got to know me as a punk and gave me some cool exclusive Rancid freebie posters, which I gave to Ann of course. (Huge Rancid fan. Has moved on now, to brighter things. Still has the posters.)

Anyhoo. Dave had a craving to purchase Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers.
So we combed through the entirety of Record Theatre's Main St. location (they're like Record Archive, but near UB instead of UR. So, Buffalo).

I got 6 CD's (all used, listed below).
Dave got none. They didn't have any Peacemakers.
We had to then go to Media Play. (He had the hankering, see?)
They didn't have the albums he wanted either. But they did have the new one, Americano!, so Dave contented himself (a little grudgingly) with that.

But me? I got:

Hildegard Von Bingen, Symphoniae Sequentia, by the Deutscha Harmonia Mundi (? I think? Unclear labeling.)

Shannon Curfman, Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions. A solid album I've heard many times in Darius's car stereo. I have pirate mp3s of a couple of her songs, but none of the ones on this album, and I really like "I Don't Make Promises (I Can't Break)". Most notably, Shannon is a blues guitarist who released her first album at fifteen.

Purcell, O Solitude, by Gerard Lesne, Il Seminario Musicale. I don't know; it just really seemed compelling. O Solitude!

Yo-Yo Ma, Obrigado Brazil. I heard good things about this. I make strange decisions when confronted with the used CD bin.

Cake, Prolonging the Magic. Cake is yummy. I like their whitebread music and crunchy basslines, and sarcastic lyrics always push my buttons. I have only pirate music from them and wanted to have something pseudo-legitimate (used CDs aren't really truly kosher, I don't think, but...)

And, finally, an impulse $3 purchase:
Rachmaninov, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18. London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Wyn Morris. Piano: David Golub.

I likes Russian Romantics, what can I say?

So that'll get me happily writing.

Downside? Have to clean off the iTunes library to get it under 27 GB so I can fit it on the iPod. Bleah! I have a bunch of mislabeled techno from an ill-advised session with an ex-boyfriend abusing my fast ethernet collection to get himself more beatz, while his connection was hosed after 9/11 (he lived in TriBeCa).
Well, i suppose he wasn't really a boyfriend. I should be precise in the semantics, I suppose; he is on the flist and may correct me. ;)
Anyhow. I should clean that stuff off. The stuff I don't listen to. But that would require effort.

[added: Holy crap. I'm way over 28 GB. I gots to do me some deletin'.]

Comments

[reverend-dave.livejournal.com]

I have that Shannon Curfman album too. And I do believe that's not only her first album, but her only album to date.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

really?
hm.

Lessee... what other stuff do I have by her?

I have an mp3 of a song called Real Bad Feeling, which claims to be on that album, but is not. Likewise, a song called Musta Been Love, likewise claiming to be from LGBS.

Shrug.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the Hildegard von Bingen (why do I always think of Ricochet Rabbit when I hear that name?) disc is probably by an early music group called Sequentia. They're very cool. I've seen them at the Boston Early Music Festival a couple of times, and I have a recording they did of her music, called "Canticles of Ecstasy". DHM is just the record label.

Just a lil' FYI from your local early music fiend, qwerty.

qwerty!

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'd no idea you were around. Do you stop by often? I gave up on TTtWD because the email notifications for it just wouldn't work, and I started getting so lost.

local? I suppose 'local' means different things on the Internet. :)

Ahhh... I think that makes sense now. I have trouble puzzling through the labeling on these CDs when there's so much information on them. Sequentia... I see.

It's confusing because von Bingen wrote a sequence of music and I was unsure whether that was what they were referring to....

It's good stuff!

Re: qwerty!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in here a few times a week, I'd say. What can I say? I like your writing, and as you no longer contribute in the place where I first got to know your work, I come here.

Get this -- I met a bunch of the folks from HR and cre8 last night at a brewpub in Flaming Ham. They had one of their seminars, so I went out just to say hi.

Re: qwerty!

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm touched. (In the head.) (Get out of my subconscious, Animaniacs!)

Yeah, I just don't do SEO now. I still hang around cre8asite and keep spammers out of the Writing forum, but that's about it. I want to be more active, but I have nothing to say about marketing or copywriting or any of that stuff. I don't think I'm a marketer at heart.

Who'd you meet? Where the heck is Flaming Ham and where do I get some?

Re: qwerty!

[(Anonymous)]

Lessee... Kim and Bill from cre8 (I think stock/Grumpus was there, but I didn't meet him), and Jill, Scottie, Karon, Christine, Deb, Matt, Cline and Don1 from HR.

Flaming Ham is one of Mass' many "ham" towns. We've also got Dead Ham, Need Ham, Stone Ham...