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Jimmy Cauty is one of the more fascinating artists I’ve come across (originally through The KLF), and I’ve always been curious what he’s been up to. Somewhere, deep down, I hold a hope that someday he and Bill Drummond will finish and release The Black Room.
(via Daring Fireball)
I know spring is here because I heard Meatloaf’s “Paradise By The Dashboard Light” on the radio
The really isn’t any other song that says ‘springtime’ better than that.
I have a mental list of albums that I’m trying to find cheaply.
Earlier this year, I went to a used CD store here in Worcester (Jelly’s Discs, for those keeping score at home) and found two – Rave Til Dawn including Apotheosis’ “O Fortuna,” and Boris Grebenshikov’s “Radio Silence” – both were staples of my college days. I had them on cassette but couldn’t get CD copies before they disappeared from the market.
Today I walked in to Newbury Comics in the Solomon Pond Mall and found something new – Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend. One of my absolutel favorite albums. However, this was the new “Legacy Edition” which included a second disc of… “Good Frend: Another Take on ‘Girlfriend’.” We had this in our college station and someone stole it before I got a chance to. Basically, I’ve spent over 10 years looking for a copy, and now I have it.
Sure, it’s not the promo version from 1992. And sure, I could have picked any of these up on eBay. That’s not the point. I’d rather spend the time rooting through CD stores (used and new) and seeing what I can find, because sometimes I’ll find something else that’s really cool.
And for those who care, the rest of my list that I’m consciously looking for includes:
Pete Townsend, “The Iron Man”
The Bears, “The Bears”
The Bears, “Rise and Shine”
The Travelling Wilburys, “Volume 1″
The Travelling Wilburys, “Volume 3″
Update: Finally, the Travelling Wilburys discs were re-released and I picked them up.
Every once in a while, I’ll find a perfect combination of song and road. Today I had one – Pet Shop Boys “Somewhere” came on just as I was getting onto I-290 as it starts in Hudson and it just seemed right. THe song picked up just as I went under the 495 ramp and… well, it was just right.
For those keeping score, the other spots I’ve had this that I can remember are:
I-84 westbound just before exit 8, Abba’s “Dancing Queen”
I-390 north over a hill just before I-90, Depeche Mode’s “Get Right With Me”
I-87 north through Saratoga Springs, Prodigy’s “Voodoo People”
Anyone else have anything?
This may be the ability of the human brain to recognize patterns where no pattern exists (see The Illuminatus Trilogy’s “Rule of 5″ for another example), but I’ve noticed that sometimes my iPod acts smarter than it has any right to be. As an example, yesterday it played a bunch of songs in a row that were exactly what I was looking for at that time. Other times, it’ll choose a song which makes me think of another… which is the next song it plays. And then still other times, it’ll play a song but I’ll skip it because that isn’t the version I particularly wanted – so it plays another version next.
I know I’m not the only one to have noticed this.