browsing

[vuzh]

i browsed a bit at Barnes and Noble.
i don't like buying there, they're overpriced and corporate...
but i do think it's a good place to browse, especially for CDs. the scanners they have up, where you scan the barcodes, and you can listen to snippets of any CD in stock -- that's pure genius.

i did determine that i really do, in actuality, need a couple of CDs that i already suspected that i need:
Eno - Apollo (Atmospheres and Soundtracks) and Zappa - Hot Rats.

also determined that the new Tortoise might be worth getting, i had been avoiding it, but it sounded enjoyable.

also listened to Brian Wilson's "Smile" a little bit.
my thirty year long antagonism toward the Beach Boys may be breaking up a bit.
"Smile" sounds like a weird deconstruction of the Beach Boys... it does seem a little cloying and claustrophobic, but it might be interesting to try to listen to the whole thing.
i'm allowing myself to get into stuff that i've always avoided to see if i'm purposefully keeping myself from something i might like for dubious or nonexistant reasons.

also browsed the DVD section so that i could find stuff to rent from Greencine!

Comments

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

in your eye.

[object-holder.livejournal.com]

Does that mean something?

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

just a lame reference to the "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" cliché

[object-holder.livejournal.com]

Oh! I pictured it drawn-out and drawly: "In yer eeeeyyye!" Like some kind of 40s mobster curse.

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

see?

that's why you should never demand an explanation from me.
the answer will always be much more mundane than whatever you can imagine.