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went to the thrift store and it was slim pickings (picked up a cool indian tape and some other weird slavic tape) and they were playing bob marley and it made me want to shoot myself. bob just sounded soooooo tired and when he got to the part about free yerself from mental slavery i really really wished it was half-price revolver day THEN the cd started skipping and that bummed me out even more cuz the very thought of a marley cd that has been played so much that it skips is depressing and then they took it off and put on friggin' bonnie raitt and i almost cried and everyone in the store looked so ugly and furtive and bored and bonnie sang "turn out the lights..." and it was the tired dirge to end all tired dirges and i wanted to take everyone out and then me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

but think of the children

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

i fucking love when cds skip at stores. it's usually a sound 10,000x cooler than what was playing

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

okay, the "weird slavic" tape is hardcore DIY xian devotional music with drumming from Haiti. I didn't look at it that close when i bought it. sounds great.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

my brother will remember where this was. there was this diner we used to go to somewhere in danbury and the jukebox at this one table had jive bunny's in the mood on it and it skipped! so we would play it before we left and it was a cool sound to exit to.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

your musical tastes must be so exquisitely honed that a bonnie raitt cd will make you want to cry with its triteness. OH NOES THRIFT STORE PLAYS ADULT CONTEMP MUSIC. dickmouth.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

bonnie raitt doesn't always make me wanna cry. same with bob marley. it was the moment. the store, the people in the store, i was hungry, i kept looking over the same books and records that i have been looking over ALL WINTER, it has been a long winter, it was hot in there, i haven't left the island since thanksgiving, etc. all of these things combined added up to death and more death.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

why's someone getting so testy over bonnie raitt?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

get a blog xpost

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

did scott scratch yr bonnie raitt cd or something?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

"get a blog xpost"

I have two! sorta. I never have time to post on them. anyway, i don't know who you are, elmo, but i'm betting that i'm a little older than you are, and i swear i'm not exaggarating when i say that i have probably heard THAT marley cd and THAT raitt cd at least 3000 times in public settings and they have NEVER (as far as i can remember) filled me with such dread before. i swear that "turn out the lights..." hit me like a ton of bricks. it was the absence of all life. i was really hungry though. once i got a meatball sub and some boston creme pie i was as right as rain.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

just giving you something to talk about. xpost.

didn't mean to sound like a cunt before, but i can't understand how lite rock could make someone so despondent -- i usually just tune it out. low blood-sugar could explain it. my crankiness, too.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

to quote a wise man, "just a bit of fun, let's all be cool"

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:32 (twenty years ago)

so i went over to my pal beth parker's house for dinner tonight (homemade chicken pot pie, kale, and squash with ginger and garlic), and she had the EXACT SAME experience at the thrift store today! The people, the music, just the general "air" of the joint was really off for her too. In her case they were playing James Taylor though and before she left they put on the Bob Marley cd that I stumbled into. See, I'm not crazy! She even brought it up before I did, so it wasn't some sympathetic agree-with-your-friends-about-how-awful-a-place-can-be sorta thing. and usually i enjoy my weekly visit to the thrift store, so there must have been some sorta paranormal behaviour going on. maybe some dead old lady was mad that their tea-set was selling so cheap and they were haunting the joint. there was an ill wind wafting thru, i tell you...

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 04:34 (twenty years ago)

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