Today's Purchases (Non-classical)

[karlhenning]

Which actually came in the same carton as this:



And I think there's a cosmic rightness in play there 

[George]

Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet SACD digipac 

[mn dave]

To mark my CD-Rs. I have heard that Sharpies can damage CDs over time. If there is any truth to it, I don't want my CDs ruined.

Hm. I wonder what I use. Will have to check later.

Great. All those back-up discs and they may be worthless. 

[George]

Hm. I wonder what I use. Will have to check later.

Great. All those back-up discs and they may be worthless. 

Let's hope not, but I just want to be on the safe side.

[mn dave]

Let's hope not, but I just want to be on the safe side.

I just read somewhere Sharpies are okay. Solvent vs. Non-solvent, blah blah blah.

I also read that slowly over the years, CDRs lose their data until eventually you're listening to silence! Oy, how to backup all these downloads? They said factory CDs slowly lose data as well...

Nothing's forever, I guess.

[rockerreds]

Love-Forever Changes(Collector's Edition)

[George]

I just read somewhere Sharpies are okay. Solvent vs. Non-solvent, blah blah blah.

Yeah, I just read somewhere that Elvis is alive and pregnant with Jimi Hendrix's baby. 

I also read that slowly over the years, CDRs lose their data until eventually you're listening to silence! Oy, how to backup all these downloads? They said factory CDs slowly lose data as well...

Sorry, you're fading out....

[mn dave]

Yeah, I just read somewhere that Elvis is alive and pregnant with Jimi Hendrix's baby. 

Sorry, you're fading out....

[George]

[DavidRoss]

Which actually came in the same carton as this:



And I think there's a cosmic rightness in play there 

Well, the Marx brothers certainly crafted better theatrical works, and their understanding of human nature was much more profound, but their movies tend to be so full of frenetic action and non-stop one-liners that they're not nearly such effective sleep aids.

[karlhenning]

The Marxes also had the humility and good sense to realize that they could improve their shows by factoring in the reactions of audiences in live performance.  (Many of their movies were toured around as stage acts first.)  In a parallel universe, Wagner's written a pamphlet on how Groucho could have been a really brilliant comic, if only he hadn't suffered the automatic inferiority of Jewry . . . .

[rockerreds]

John Anderson-Greatest Hits
Mott The Hoople-Greatest Hits
Donna Summer-Bad Girls

[Kullervo]

Pär Lagerkvist - The Sybil

One of the very few times I've bought a book without knowing anything about the author or their reputation. The Neo-Hellenic 60s cover caught my eye.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - House of Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter, etc.

I've ignored the literary heritage of my own country for too long, so I am doing penance with this nice old leatherbound edition from the 30s.

[karlhenning]

Hawthorne is one of the Quiet Greats.

[George]

My very first Muddy Waters CD:

[Kullervo]

Hawthorne is one of the Quiet Greats.

Yes, I am enjoying him very much.

[karlhenning]

It wasn't until I was in my 30s that I read The House of the Seven Gables;  and although in different ways to (say) Melville or Dostoyevsky, I wouldn't have gotten nearly so much out of Hawthorne, if I had read more of his work while I was back in high school.

The Blithedale Romance is one of my all-time favorites.

[Kullervo]

It wasn't until I was in my 30s that I read The House of the Seven Gables;  and although in different ways to (say) Melville or Dostoyevsky, I wouldn't have gotten nearly so much out of Hawthorne, if I had read more of his work while I was back in high school.

The Blithedale Romance is one of my all-time favorites.

It sometimes seems that anything education touches turns to mold. I remember reading about him in school but was never made to read anything by him, thankfully — I think he would have suffered the same fate as George Eliot (I will probably give her another chance sooner or later).

[karlhenning]

The only Hawthorne we had to read (10th or 11th grade? I forget, for it was indeed years ago) was The Scarlet Letter. That was actually one of a very few books which, although I read it as a requirement for high school English, I enjoyed nonetheless.  In later life, that would have inspired me to read other books of his . . . for reasons mysterious to me at this remove, it didn't much work that way for me as a high school pupil . . . .

[ezodisy]

it is indeed tempting and I'm hoping that this book will thoroughly dissuade me.

cats, really smart animals