Went to Amoeba Records on Haight Street with a local friend last night.
Wow. It was pretty cool on lots of levels. I mean, just the shear number
of artists was impressive. But it was also fun to flip through the used
Pet Shop
Boys
section and realize that I’ve managed to collect most of the rare
releases (Very/Relentless) and limited editions (the lego case for Very
— not exactly limited, but a complete relic of a more interesting time
in music packaging) over the years. I picked up three items — two used,
one new:
- “The Creek Drank The Cradle”, Iron & Wine (new)
- “30° everywhere”, Promise Ring (used)
- “Hopes and Dreams”, Keane
I bought the Promise Ring disc mostly for completeness — it’s been on my
Amazon.com wishlist for months. My friend was playing Keane in the car;
I guess it as Travis, and he commented “well, close; they’re the new
Travis”. Sort of, although perhaps more consistently bright. Overall
very very good. And then the Iron & Wine disc, well, it was a total
impulse. I’ve been really digging his joint EP with Calexico, “In The
Reins”, so decided to take a chance. Listening to the soft, lilting
sounds now, what an amazing album.
G gave me guitar lessons for Christmas. Its a long story, but I was
already excited, and listening to the stripped down, spare guitar and
vocals of Iron & Wine raises the expectations. My first lesson is the
Monday after I return from San Francisco, January 9.
Finally, I’m listening to all of this amazing music using
Banshee, a music management application
for Gnome. I hadn’t used it much before this, but since I can’t sync my
iPod with my laptop (it’s tied to my iMac right now), this was a good
excuse to try it out. And I really, really like it. It has iPod support
so maybe I’ll try to move my music over and sync to Linux. That’d be
cool. And since I really like it, maybe this is finally an excuse to
look at C# and see what all the fuss is about.
But really, who cares what the fuss is about when you have music like this?
date: | 2006-01-04 01:42:48 |
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