The 2014 GMG Discovery Awards!

[ibanezmonster]

Seconded for all GMGers (except amw, who dislikes it as I recall).

Dislikes...

Atterberg symphonies? 

(dramatically faints)

[RJR]

"Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain . . . "

A blizzard and a downpour on the same honeymoon? Where did they go?

Oh - and I've forgotten a few dozen more movies I've just encountered for the first time (such as Mallick's Tree of Life and Days of Heaven, Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eat Soul, Ray's The Music Room, Bergman's The Magician, and almost all of Wes Anderson, of whose work I most enjoyed Grant Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom.) And for every one I've seen, there are half a dozen on my list to discover. I have to thank Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list for doing much to point me in fruitful directions.

Read Vernon Young. If you can find him. 'Unpopular essays on a popular art'.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Read Vernon Young. If you can find him. 'Unpopular essays on a popular art'.

Thanks. It was a tough choice on Amazon between the used copy for $.40 and the new one for $509.79, but either way I'll see what he has to say.

[Ken B]

Thanks. It was a tough choice on Amazon between the used copy for $.40 and the new one for $509.79, but either way I'll see what he has to say.

I see stuff like that all the time. You have to wonder how a price like  $509.79 ever seemed plausible to the seller.

Well, I guess you only have to sell a couple hundred copies and you can retire, so it has its logic.

[not edward]

I see stuff like that all the time. You have to wonder how a price like  $509.79 ever seemed plausible to the seller.

It's probably a price set by software that attempts to undercut all other sellers by 1c, but doesn't have a reasonable default price set for when other sellers are no longer offering them. It's calmed down a bit now, but it used to be quite easy to find items whose prices were dropping 1c every minute or two as two or more sellers had software that was being used to undercut each other. Then the price would suddenly jump up after one of the sellers dropped out of the race to the bottom, and the other seller pushed the price back up as high as it would go.

You see silly prices a lot more often north of the border; one CD on my wishlist has gradually dropped from $800 to $80 over the last month.