Heeeeeeeeeeeere's Jenny! during the Man in Gray show at the C-Note a few nights ago. Damn, she's a bombshell.
Jenny and I taking a break from being loyal fans of the band. It's hard work, but somebody's gotta do it.
Yeah, that's right.
Can I tell you how excellent of a book The Bonfire of the Vanities is? I'm about halfway through, and absolutely impressed with Tom Wolfe's depiction of materialistic Manhattanites in the 1980s. I haven't seen the film adaptation, although I heard some negative things about it ... I'm waiting until I finish the book to rent the movie.
There's a record store next door to where I work, Academy Records, that is one of the best at which I've shopped in a long time. The staff is helpful (which stands in opposition to an article in The Onion from last year about record store clerks...good stuff!), the CDs are cheap, and they have a great variety. I was especially impressed when my month-old query about a Berlin CD from the 1980s was solved -- "Did you say you were looking for this?" -- one of the workers remembered I had asked, tracked it down, and put it aside for me. I've bought over twenty albums there this month, a notion that normally would give me the shakes, but they were all inexpensive at Academy. In any event, I very highly recommend checking the place out. Or else I will make you buy me everything on my evergrowing Amazon wishlist. Muhahahahahahar!
Duran Duran, Pop Trash
Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle
Cyndi Lauper, She's So Unusual
Alphaville, Forever Young
The Vaselines, The Way of the Vaselines
Juliana Hatfield, Only Everything
P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire?
The Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks
Frente, Marvin the Album
Destiny's Child, The Writing's on the Wall
The Cars, The Cars
The B-52s, Cosmic Thing
Duran Duran, Arena
The Doors, The Soft Parade Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
L7, Hungry for Stink
The Dandy Warhols, The Dandy Warhols
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Ace of Base, The Sign
The Waitresses, The Best of the Waitresses
Belle & Sebastian, Lazy Line Painter Jane
The Fad, The Fad The New Wave: Pop Music of the Early '80s
Goodbye Girl Friday, Mr. & Mrs.
Naked Highway, Hyperbollocks
Duran Duran, Pop Trash Classic Alternatives: '80s 12" Extended Rare Mixes
Phil Collins, Hits
Genesis, Turn It On Again: The Hits
Ladytron, Light & Magic
Ladytron, 604
The Go-Betweens, Before Hollywood
Beck, Midnight Vultures
Duran Duran, Seven & the Ragged Tiger
Abba, Arrival
The Cardigans, Long Gone Before Daylight
The Psychedelic Furs, All of This & Nothing
Air, Moon Safari
The Knack, Round Trip
Blondie, Parallel Lines
The Psychedelic Furs, Forever Now
The Donnas, Spend the Night
Nancy Sinatra, California Girl
Tatu, 200 KMH in the Wrong Lane
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation
John-Manuel Andriote, Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco
Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Jean Kilbourne, Deadly Persuasion
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
