From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V9 #9 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Thursday, January 14 2010 Volume 09 : Number 009 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] One Step Beyond [markwstaples@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] One Step Beyond [Paul King ] [loud-fans] Moose - XYZ (UK reissue) [Dave Walker ] [loud-fans] Cranio-mechanical Recharge [Michael Bowen ] Re: [loud-fans] One Step Beyond [West ANTHONY ] Re: [loud-fans] Cranio-mechanical Recharge ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] Re: [loud-fans] One Step Beyond [markwstaples@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Cranio-mechanical Recharge [Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] One Step Beyond On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 03:31 -0500, markwstaples@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 1/13/2010 1:40:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > glarbleflarb@yahoo.com writes: > > Tanking CD sales doubtless started the trend, but the economy really put > the hurt on everyone. > > > I noticed the titles the guy wanted were really safe ones. Makes sense. ... This was an incredible story. Read it all the way to the end. Definitely not the stuff you hear about on CNN. More like a 21st century Grapes of Wrath. Thanks for sharing. Paul ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:25:54 -0500 From: Dave Walker Subject: [loud-fans] Moose - XYZ (UK reissue) I don't know how I missed this, but Cherry Red apparently reissued Moose's first LP with the contents of the US "Sonny & Sam" EP tacked on as bonus tracks. Mentioning it here in case anyone else on-list is as obsessed as I am with this criminally underrated band... Among other stuff, XYZ contains "Little Bird", as perfect a single as has been released in the last 20 years, IMO. -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:06:11 -0500 From: Michael Bowen Subject: [loud-fans] Cranio-mechanical Recharge After transferring files from my old computer to my new one, I don't seem to have the unedited version of "Chardonnay" anymore - does anyone have a link to where it might be available? Also, Stew's "Passing Strange" musical will be broadcast tonight on PBS' "Great Performances". MB ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:15:57 -0800 (PST) From: West ANTHONY Subject: Re: [loud-fans] One Step Beyond Mark, Yikes. Thanks for sharing your story; it makes me appreciate what I have that much more. Without going into too much detail -- I'd feel like I was rubbing it in -- three years ago I was living in my truck, and today everything is better than I thought it would be. Emotionally, I'm still trying to figure out how to want to get up in the morning, but in most other aspects, I've bounced back in a good way... and doing it in the midst of such economic turmoil for so many others almost feels like I've pulled off the crime of the century. Most indicators state that California isn't going to pull out of its troubles until sometime next year, so going back home may very well be the best course of action for you right now, but who can say about these things for sure. Nevertheless, best of luck to you wherever you go. West Sent from my magical iPhone... "This old world keeps spinning round "It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down" - - Neil Young, "Comes A Time" On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:31 AM, markwstaples@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 1/13/2010 1:40:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, glarbleflarb@yahoo.com writes: Tanking CD sales doubtless started the trend, but the economy really put the hurt on everyone. I noticed the titles the guy wanted were really safe ones. Makes sense. It's worse here than back home economically. The job I interviewed for in LA 5 weeks ago when I arrived? They had over 400 applicants for the position. I made it to the interview stage along with 11 others, then got the rejection e-mail a week later. This was for a customer service job that started at 11 dollars an hour. Mom's out here living with my brother, and that's good for her. That's what really matters to me--he can take care of her so much better than I could/can in his financial shape. I have a home health outfit that wants to hire me due to my experience in assisting special ed kids with disabilities, but I was told that most elderly people want a female caregiver, and that I had to keep that in mind, so they would hire me, but it may take some time to get me in a slot. I also had a tutoring business that wanted to hire me, but they said it would take a month to get the hours earned in, then a month to get paid for it from the government! And, in the meantime, I'd have to drive to Oxnard every day to work an hour or two--I wouldn't make much in the end after gas. The school district back home is allowing me to return to work as a sub, and they have plenty of work--mostly aides slots, which pay half what teachers get (those slots are almost always nabbed by teachers on each school's sub list, but there are some that come up on the automated system at schools way out in the district nobody wants to drive to, but I'll take 'em). This IS a tremendous favor and blessing because Greenville County Schools has a hiring freeze, but are making an exception for me. My "car guy" brother is looking at a used Saturn with new struts and tires in Camarillo tomorrow for me to get back to South Carolina in (God, I don't want to make that 2400 mile trip AGAIN, but I do miss home and my friends). I can stay for free in our now empty house until it sells (which will be weird--kind of like camping in the house I was born into). I can get a low-end apartment in Greenville for around 400 a month after I work and save for a while. Here? Maybe a room for that, if I look hard. And the jobs out here pay almost exactly the same. How do people do it? I like the people here. Californians are so friendly. At least in Moorpark and Simi Valley and Ventura, where I've been. They make Southerners look mean by comparison! And the weather is great. But, I will not miss the traffic, the sales tax of almost 9 percent (compared to our 6 percent--some exemptions that have no tax back home i.e. certain foodstuffs) or the 50 cents a gallon higher gas prices. I looked into getting certified out here, but there are no teaching jobs because of the government cuts--it's weird not being able to take care of matters at a DMV for example on a Friday. They're closed! Also, California has their own basic skills assessment for teachers! It would be stepping back a decade for me when I was working on getting certified. I'd have to do that basic crap again. Oy. Maybe Richard Cory's factory sucked, but it's looking pretty good when you go without the meat and curse the bread for a while (no offense to the vegetarians and vegans, of course--maybe when you go without the textured soy protein and curse the ramen?), - --Mark, whose middle name is Walton (from rural Virginia mountain familial origins) so I should have depression living hard-wired into my DNA "Goodnight everybody" [insert the three bings here] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:32:23 -0800 From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Cranio-mechanical Recharge It's available at http://www.125records.com/audio/chardonnay.mp3 On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Michael Bowen wrote: > After transferring files from my old computer to my new one, I don't > seem to have the unedited version of "Chardonnay" anymore - does > anyone have a link to where it might be available? > > Also, Stew's "Passing Strange" musical will be broadcast tonight on > PBS' "Great Performances". > > MB > - -- Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:36:44 EST From: markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] One Step Beyond (many steps back) In a message dated 1/13/2010 6:59:55 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, sciguy@vex.net writes: More like a 21st century Grapes of Wrath. Thanks for sharing. That's exactly what I told my mom. Eerily, I also said this BEFORE we moved--then with a smartassed cluelessness (well, somewhat clued-in, yet hopeful)--now with a heavy dollup of irony. The first adult book I ever read was TGOW, on my own one summer, in middle school. When I got here, my niece was studying the book, and doing a collaborative project on it with some classmates in her 11th grade English class. Life imitates art, too. What matters is I got Mom out here, so, mission accomplished. I was simply along for the ride, to see if I could make something happen. Now if I were only gaunt with a sweat-stained fedora and an overheating jalopy, - --Mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:47:49 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] One Step Beyond Mark, used CD buying has always paid a pittance here (like $1-$2 for stuff they would turn around and sell for $8), and it got to where they wouldn't take anything I had anyway. Back when Lala did trading, I got some good stuff that way for my unwanted discs, and I've sold some stuff on half.com for almost what I'd pay to buy them used (I try to undersell in order to move stuff faster). If you've got, or think you will have over time, some good, marketable CDs and/or books to sell, you should consider putting them on half.com or Amazon Marketplace. Ebay Shops, even. I don't know what fees are like on the latter two. Half.com doesn't charge for listings, you leave it up as long as you want, and they take a small percentage if you sell. You also get a shipping allowance out of what the seller pays, so you don't pay for shipping out of pocket unless you go over the allowance (which I never have, even with books). Jen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:26:29 EST From: markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] One Step Beyond In a message dated 1/13/2010 3:52:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, sleeveless@suddenlink.net writes: If you've got, or think you will have over time, some good, marketable CDs and/or books to sell, you should consider putting them on half.com or Amazon Marketplace. Ebay Shops, even. Yeah, you're right. I intend on doing that from now on. My perceptions of Amoeba were inaccurate--they were from a different time. But, lying and telling me my CDs were "extremely scratched"? Uncool boom or bust. It's like telling someone who collects porcelain figurines that their figurines are cracked. It pissed me off proper, because I pride myself on taking care of my albums. I really don't own anything else of value besides them. If I have a disc that has any kind of mark on it, I don't even consider selling it. I would have it buffed out first. About the only thing I'm guilty of is having cracked cases from toting discs to the radio station or from them being in the high-entropy environs of a car, of which the risk (to the disc itself) is almost eliminated if you always put the disc directly into its case as soon as you finish listening, and always handle it from the edges. - --Mark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:19:30 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Cranio-mechanical Recharge Michael Bowen wrote: > Also, Stew's "Passing Strange" musical will be broadcast tonight on > PBS' "Great Performances". > Thank you so much for that heads up. I would not have known otherwise, and I have been wanting to see it. Absolutely wonderful! Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V9 #9 *****************************