Quotation Of The Day: Frank Zappa: Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.
Hi, everyone, it's a while since i posted but the last time, i had a rant, now i have a rave. I was bewailing the fact that i couldn't get my paws on a couple of CDs (new albums by Kate Bush and Rory Gallagher). I could have ordered them through amazon.com or some other corporate elephant, but i prefer to go through my friendly local independent dealer, Video + Books And CDs (http://www.videoplusbooks.ca/) They do a super job of finding stuff for me, but it must be frustrating for them, too, when an album is advertised for release at a certain date, and then isn't.
But! I've got them now, hurrah!
And, another victory for the independents: Graeme Thomson's biography of Kate, "Under The Ivy," came out in England last year. When i went to my favourite local book shop, Fanfare Books, to order a copy, i was told that its Canadian distributor had gone out of business. Well, there was much gnashing of what remains of my teeth when i learned that, i can tell ya.
But! again: Fanfare called me last week. The book had a new distributor here in the frozen north, and they had a copy for me. I picked it up on Saturday.
It's been a good week (the trials and tribulations of work notwithstanding). A little expensive, though (but heck, what the hell else do i have to with my hard-earned?).
But then, now, i have to add, today is a sad day here at Spriggs Towers: on this day in 1995, Rory died, of complications following a liver transplant, and in 2009 my beloved cat Watson succumbed, to liver disease. (Amazing, really -- i drink too much and the cat gets liver disease, sigh.)
On a happier note, it's also my sister's birthday today (she'd kill me if i told you how old she is). Rest assured that, although i am in fact drinking to her health today, that's not the only reason....
But! I've got them now, hurrah! And, another victory for the independents: Graeme Thomson's biography of Kate, "Under The Ivy," came out in England last year. When i went to my favourite local book shop, Fanfare Books, to order a copy, i was told that its Canadian distributor had gone out of business. Well, there was much gnashing of what remains of my teeth when i learned that, i can tell ya.
But! again: Fanfare called me last week. The book had a new distributor here in the frozen north, and they had a copy for me. I picked it up on Saturday.
It's been a good week (the trials and tribulations of work notwithstanding). A little expensive, though (but heck, what the hell else do i have to with my hard-earned?).
But then, now, i have to add, today is a sad day here at Spriggs Towers: on this day in 1995, Rory died, of complications following a liver transplant, and in 2009 my beloved cat Watson succumbed, to liver disease. (Amazing, really -- i drink too much and the cat gets liver disease, sigh.)
On a happier note, it's also my sister's birthday today (she'd kill me if i told you how old she is). Rest assured that, although i am in fact drinking to her health today, that's not the only reason....
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