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loud-fans-digest       Monday, September 6 2010       Volume 09 : Number 160



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: [loud-fans] Fwd: Belinda Carlisle sent you a message on Facebook...  []
  Re: [loud-fans] Fwd: Belinda Carlisle sent you a message on Facebook...  []
  [loud-fans] new Posies?                            [TruePantone293@aol.com]
  Re: [loud-fans] The Rooks Parliament out now!      [TruePantone293@aol.com]
  Re: [loud-fans] The Rooks Parliament out now!  [Jenny Grover <sleeveless@s]

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Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 08:51:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: TruePantone293@aol.com
Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Fwd: Belinda Carlisle sent you a message on Facebook...

In a message dated 9/4/2010 12:14:38 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
andrew.hamlin@gmail.com writes:

The Los  Angeles area more bereft of decent record stores than
small-town (sorry)  South Carolina?

Color me (real, real)  confused,



I visited three, and the only good one was Amoeba, and it are pricey  (and 
they screw people on used trades--remember the cartoon steam coming out of  
my head at Christmas when I tried to sell some stuff there?).  I think of  
good meaning: 1) Lots of Indie releases 2) Deep catalog and 3) New vinyl and 
4)  Used and 5)DVD/BLU RAY stock 6) Magazines 7)Books and 8) Cool stuff, 
like melted  records made into bowls and stickers and blank cassettes for the 
die hards,  etc.  Earshot Music here, formerly Manifest Discs and Tapes, 
where I worked  back in the Britpop years, passes muster.  I can go right now to 
Earshot,  and buy MEAT IS MURDER on vinyl, a new copy of Bye Bye Blackbirds 
and pick up a  DVD set of SQUARE PEGS complete series in one go.  Before 
print media bit  the dust you could get everything from AMPLIFIER to MOJO.  
And, Earshot's  prices are much better than Amoeba's.  Much.  Like everything 
else in  Los Angeles, it's expensive.
 
The problem you have, I think, is the nation has extremely ridiculous ideas 
 of what South Carolina is like.  Like were all banging our sisters and  
communicate with tin cans and string.  I think you may be projecting that  
notion onto the situation of record stores.
 
And, I can easily see Nikki Haley in the White House.  She's like Sara  
Palin, but a softer, sweet-voiced Chanel-suited version vs. the harder  
I-just-got-in-from-catching-salmon-with-my-bare-teeth-and-my-hands-tied-behind-my-ba
ck  Sarah Palin.
 
- --Mark

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Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 09:48:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: TruePantone293@aol.com
Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Fwd: Belinda Carlisle sent you a message on Facebook...

In a message dated 9/5/2010 6:21:42 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
TruePantone293@aol.com writes:

The  Los  Angeles area more bereft of decent record stores than
small-town  (sorry)  South Carolina?





Greenville isn't that small, Andy.  We're the biggest city in SC (you  have 
to include all the county dwellers, as most people live in the county, not  
the city--it's not 1935).  We have skyscrapers and gangs and homeless  
people and everything, just like you do!  And, I can go to a Walgreens here  and 
find my antacids over by the Pharmacy in the right rear of the store just  
like you can in Seattle.  The only difference these days with places to  
live is 1) how much are rents/real estate/cost-of-living prices? and 2)  
weather/terrain differences, and 3) (a spinoff of 2) do I need to  worry about 
earthquakes or hurricanes?  Like Douglas Coupland said twenty  years ago--where 
you're from these days really isn't of that much significance,  since we 
all have the same stores in our malls.
 
The McDonaldization of America is that's created a craving for REAL (but,  
to Mickey D's credit, I got my iced tea fixes I needed in Cali--I simply 
knew  they'd have it).  And, ironically, another chain of restaurants, Cracker  
Barrel, has gauged this and taken advantage of this well--selling an 
America  that no longer exists to Americans who are jonesing for it.  Their buyers 
 have bought what's left of pre-WWII USA at estate sales across the country 
and  tacked it up on their walls.  It's marketing brilliance at it's 
finest, in  league with Pepsi Throwback: make a great product, cheapen it with 
corn  syrup, but then get everybody used to the way it tastes with that in  it 
(like sh**), and then, bring back the original, more expensive, better  
tasting product as a boutique item, and for a limited time only every  year.  
BRILLIANT!    
 
The only thing more masterful is the guy who figured out how to make money  
on people merely spending money--the one who figured out that if he charged 
for  simply the use of his company's cards in a transaction and charged the 
 businesses for it, he'd make gazillions.  That guy, though probably 
burning  in the Eighth Circle of Hell now, was/is a brilliant dude.
 
- --Mark

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Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 10:59:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: TruePantone293@aol.com
Subject: [loud-fans] new Posies?

Saw WNCW's latest playlist in their weekly e-mail and there's an  add of 
the Posies. (!)
 
M

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Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 11:01:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: TruePantone293@aol.com
Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Rooks Parliament out now!

Cheers, Jen!  Congratulations.
 
M

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Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:55:32 -0400
From: Jenny Grover <sleeveless@suddenlink.net>
Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Rooks Parliament out now!

On 09/05/2010 11:01 AM, TruePantone293@aol.com wrote:
> Cheers, Jen!  Congratulations.
>
> M
>    

Thanks!

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