My Experience at Record Store Day

I've always wanted to go to Record Store Day, but never have. Erie really never had record stores and last year I just didn't do it. So this year, instead of doing chores and going to the store, I said to myself in a monologue my neighbors may have heard: "Britt, fuck it. We're going. Part of life is about the experiences we have anyway." So I bought a bus pass and I WENT.

This post is brought to you by Liv Tyler's midriff.

According to the folks at Fuse, Jack White was the national ambassador for the day. Of course he was: Jack is a noted sound-quality snob!

Part of the appeal of Record Store Day are the new releases various artists come out with for it. Like MGMT, Garbage, Tegan and Sara, and David Bowie among others. I didn't see this- I just saw a lot of vinyl that would have been useless for me to buy because I have no turntable (shhhhhh).

I saw this and I ended up staring at it entranced for several moments. Alex Chilton still haunts me.

I tried to go see Wavves in a Scottsdale record store, but guess what? I got lost on mass transit as happens. :/

So here's a play-by-play of my Record Store Day in my corner of the world:
2:00 - walk around, consider redoing my style so I become a Victoria Legrand clone

no one I see on a regular basis would notice.

2:01- oh my god! "Lincoln" is out

2:03- wonder what I'd look like with a sweet beard

2:05- a Nick Drake record! I'm really in record snob heaven right now, golly!

2:06- where is this new Xx recording at?

2:10- watch metalhead in horror "rock out" at listening station. Walk away FAST

2:13- comb through records like I'm going to buy one

2:15- exclaim aloud "oh my goodness, Beach House!" Realize I have no idea what Beach House album it is.

2:16- find John Denver tribute album. Consider sending it to my mom; make mental note.

2:19- Vashti Bunyan! I've been transported back to the '60s. No a wait, there are hipsters still here. Dammit time travel isn't possible yet (only in Iran). 2:20- overhear "you should see my Hoobastanks!"
2:22- look for Jeff Buckley album. Can't find "Grace" FUCK THIS SHIT
2:24- have to reroute walking course because three hipsters are waddling through an aisle. Awkward!
2:25- text friend.
2:26- wish I wasn't alone here.
2:27- wish I had Instagram- something I feel sad about often.
2:29- hear a girl not know who the Smashing Pumpkins are. Laughter ensues!
2:30- in my dreams:

In my heart, I am:

2:30 - 2:45- stare at things.

"Chang-E" - Emmy the Great (new album out 10/9)

Emmy the Great drops her new album tomorrow on Bella Union - the fastest album she says she's ever created. "April /月音" was completed after a trip to to her birth city Hong Kong in 2017. In early 2018, Emmy the Great made "April /月音" in a two-week period in Brooklyn - which was delayed for release until now because of her maternity leave. After recording this album, Emmy moved (for good) back to Hong Kong. Since her original trip to Hong Kong, things have become quite tumultuous there. Said Emmy. "I’ll never know why the city called me back, but I know what it gave me. In return, I want to give it this album. That Mid-Autumn, nobody could have predicted what was to come, neither the atomization that began with the anti-Extradition Law protests in June 2019, nor the struggle for democracy that continues now, through the Covid-19 pandemic. To witness your birth city in its greatest moment of need is a powerful, humbling event, and I know I watched Hong Kong

Give JR a Break

Recently, I've been reading some sites that have criticized James Roday, the lead actor on the USA show PSYCH for an apparent weight gain. But you know what? Who gives a flying fizzle stick if James Roday is slightly larger than he was 4 years ago. Apparently, it wasn't enough to scare away his current girlfriend/ co-star Maggie Lawson. (Who is one hell of a Catch!) And NO they are not engaged. That seems to be nothing more than a rumor, but there is a very high chance of it happening in the near future. Anyway, as long as PSYCH continues to entertain I don't mind about James Roday's waist. He, and Dule Hill, and Corbin Bernson too, can eat all the fried broccoli they want. The last episode of PSYCH wasn't so smashing, but I don't blame it on dietary issues. QATFYG: Are you keeping up with Psych? And who is hotter, James Roday or Maggie Lawson? (Trick Question but idk why) PS: If you have heard any more news on Roday and Lawson becoming Roday-Lawso

Lilith help me, I want to stake the second episode of True Blood!

Episode 2: Authority Always Wins Well here we are again, time to sink our twin hard-ons into the new episode! Before I get into the thick of things, again I must let you know HERE BE MASSIVE SPOILERS. And I’m going to recap this by the characters instead of a timeline account, because not much happens in this episode.

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