Hit Amoeba H'wood today. Last time I did that, I didn't buy a thing. I was good. I just consigned my album and left. Today I tried looking around to familiarize myself with the store and to see if there was anything I'd find inspiring. I've spent way too little time finding out about new music. And I haven't been able to afford music in so long that my want list in my head kinda dried up. I'm sure I looked like a deer in the headlights.
I ended up walking out with a NY City Opera production of Der Silbersee (The Silverlake). I owned it on LP but should move up to CD/digital. I also bought a Naxos CD of selections from "Der Weg der Verheissung" (The Eternal Road). I'm a little iffier on that since I couldn't remember which period of Weill's it was from.
Damn my eyes. I'm seeing Der Silbersee in my iTunes so I *must* have bought the CD set before. Grr.
EDIT: Oh yay! I had the German language production but not the English one. Phew.
Belated birthday happies for Jilli!!!
My Chemical Romance will be on Jimmy Kimmel tonight, 12:05 a.m. start EST, ABC.
This may well be the Whitest. Rap. Ever. [link]
I'm bored.
For my first 3 semesters of college I was obsessed with David Bowie. (Then I got into the Velvet Underground, but that's a different story.)
So, favorite Bowie albums? My top five ten would be:
1:
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
2:
Hunky Dory
3:
Scary Monsters
4:
Diamond Dogs
5:
Let's Dance
6:
Aladdin Sane
7:
Heroes
8:
Low
9:
Lodger
10:
Space Oddity
If I had done this list 25 years ago, I think
Heroes
and
Low
would be much higher on my list.
Intriguing listing, tommy.
Hunky Dory is probably my favorite though I admit I've been focusing on Bowie As Songwriter for a while now, and that's one of his strongest and most varied collections of songs.
How about
The Man Who Sold the Earth?
Station to Station?
And the Venture Brothers makes a case for
Hours.
How about The Man Who Sold the Earth? Station to Station?
Those would probably be my 11th and 12th.
But it was really hard to put that list in order. Even now I'm not sure of it. Possibly
The Man Who Sold the World
and
Station to Station
belong ahead of
Space Oddity.
Eta: It's
The Man Who Sold the World.
I bet you were confusing the title with
The Man Who Fell to Earth
(which I must rewatch some day).
You'd better go listen to Station to Station tonight to be sure.
Yeah, according to iTunes I haven't listened to all of
Station to Station
in 6 months.
The camera operators for Kimmel apparently missed the Ignore The Guitar God on Stage Left memo and Toro was amaaaaaaaazing. So happeeeeee!
Tickets achieved for NY, NY, Boston, Philly, NJ, and (hopefully soon!) DC.
