John Lurie friended me on Facebook, I assume because I was one of the denizens of the Lounge Lizards and Fishing with John appreciation groups.
Laurie R. King friended me on Goodreads because she liked my review of one of her early works.
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also appropos of the omnibus post down the street, Amazon has a vinyl store.
THAT IS FUCKING AWESOME. Does he have a ton of friends?
ReplyDeleteat the time he had around 300, which is only like twice as many as me.
ReplyDeletenow he's got 1500, so clearly his standards have gone to HELL.
name dropper! I was friends with him WAY before you. at least a half hour.
ReplyDeletedude you RODE MY COATTAILS into the Lounge Lizards group, so pipe down!
ReplyDeleteand you've never even seen Fishing With John....POSEUR!
Yes, I recently bought a vinyl copy of Aerosmith's "Live Bootleg" album from Amazon, because it was $1, and I wanted to try to remember what the band were like before they began to suck so mightily.
ReplyDeleteI've been nosing around the internet for a decent & not outrageously expensive turntable...any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteEh, I'm not really an expert. I've got Technics 1210s, but you don't need anything remotely that expensive. (They will last forever, though. I've heard them described as the cockroaches of the turntable world. After we are long gone, there will be cockroaches running around, and Technics turntables spinning.) But for non-DJ needs, you don't need a direct-drive or anything. (They actually sound a little worse than belt-driven tables, since the motor is closer to the needle.) The last friend I advised on this matter just went with the $80 Sony turntable they had at the (now defunct) electronics shoppe, and she's been perfectly happy with it. When in doubt, nobody ever got fired for buying a Sony.
ReplyDeletethe early laurie king was wonderful. the later stuff offensive.
ReplyDeletehow does that happen?
people who started writing out of some inner urge eventually find themselves conforming to the dictates of the publishing industry.
ReplyDeleteseries writers seem especially susceptible to that kind of creeping financial coercion.