i went CD shopping with emilia at Cheapo today. this was my biggest music splurge of the summer. here it is:
OutKast - ATLiens. part of my ongoing pursuit to own actual copies of music that i download. also in the same vein is...
Actionslacks - The Scene's Out of Sight. OK so i actually own it now! huzzah.
Actionslacks - Too Bright, Just Right, Goodnight. it was four dollars, so why not?
The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk. sustained my craving for new wave!
Groove Armada - Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub). this is a good electronic album. i would totally play it at a party. it would get things going GOOD.
The Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free. i couldn't pass up a $10.00 Frank Zappa/Mothers CD that i didn't own.
Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething. yes i own it for real now.
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream. worth $7.00 for sure. they had Gish too, but i'm in no rush.
so, that was 8 CDs at a total price tag of $63.77. that comes out to about $7.90 per CD. not bad at all.
after purchasing these discs, emilia and i adventured our way into downtown MPLS to find the downtown Pizza Luce. after finding reasonable parking and navigating the treacherous waters of 1st avenue, we arrived there. i had lemonade (free refills).
***TANGENT***
good conversation right here.
Me: "I'm gonna get lemonade! They give free refills!"
Emilia: "You just spent sixty dollars, and you're worrying about refills?"
***TANGENT
we ordered a margherita pizza, which was good and i told her the story of my year. it took maybe 45 minutes, i'd say. we then drove around south MPLS while i listened to stories of her year. emilia does a lot of details and her story took the better part of 2 and 1/2 hours. at some point during the night, some really annoying parkway police trailed us. wtf was that about?
emilia is a good person. she and i are different in many ways, but similar in others. it felt nice to be able to talk to someone in complete stories and to be a listener for someone else. i think sometimes when you explain things out loud for someone who isn't you, you start to understand what you're saying more.
so to emilia, thanks for spending time with me today talking and listening. it was really good. you're a good friend, and i love you, even if we have a tendancy to bicker and try to out-music-elitist the other person to DEATH A LOT OF THE TIME.
it is sort of sad though. due to either some configuration problem with emilia's Safari browser, or some incompatibility/bad code/whatever with my website, she can't comment on my site right now, but i'm sure she'd say something particularly befitting of her character. i'll try to fix that up emilia, if i figure out how.
Posted by john guari at August 15, 2004 02:44 AM