In what neighborhood in Seattle would you put Goblin Market? Would you stock the taxidermied mice? What else would be on the shelves? Describe the cases to me.

It would be located in Capitol Hill, which is the 'queer' neighborhood, and where most of the nightclubs, vintage boutiques, and good cafes are. Of course I'd stock the taxidermied mice! I'd also stock vintage clothes and shoes, a range of exclusive-to-the-shop goth basics that are (for whatever reason) impossible to find (black lace dresses, black velvet leggings, nice men's shirts in jewel tones, and so on), and hats. There would be a small section for used books (mostly books on fashion history, costuming, and good horror novels), and a selection of really good chocolate.

The shelves would be black wrought iron in a stylized swirly Tim Burton style, and bookshelves would be coffin-shaped.

t / waaaaay off-topic, but hey! you asked!

but hey! you asked!

'Cuz I wanna know all the amazing things in your beautiful head.

Btw, Marianne Faithful (getting much play in this thread lately. Does everybody already own Strange Weather? You should.) is not only in Black Rider ....she's the devil.

Jilli - you do know there's a new Rasputina 2 cd disc out, right?

That's my experience with Ribot - as a sideman, frequently great, as a frontman, sometimes interesting, but frequently unlistenable.

Never saw him as a solo artist, but he was AWSOME live with Waits and with the Lizards.

t /bragging

I just made it to the post office in time to pick up the CDs.

Jon - I love tracks 10 and 17 (PWF and Jon Langford's Ship & Pilot) on your mix madly so far (Tracks 1 and 12 - GBV and Belle & Sebastian - were already favorites of mine). Track 14 is maybe one of the most frightening things I have ever heard come out of my stereo.

Haven't gotten to Teenster yet.

Track 14 is maybe one of the most frightening things I have ever heard come out of my stereo.

Heh. I just came back from a Somervillain Buffista gathering where I mentioned how suprprised I was that no one here had commented on the Bags tune.

"Witch, in the sky, surrender, D-O-R-O-T-H....YYYYYYYYY"

(writing it out does not come close to doing it justice)

Good music day. I made a mix while I was watching b-ball and listening to our first big storm of the season. It's a "going to and fro" theme mix and has a lot of stuff I've downloaded recently from emusic on it. I haven't done a theme mix in a while - and I tried really hard not to use stuff I had put on mixes before (wanted to put "Everybody Knows this is Nowhere" on there real bad).

Anyways. This is what I did with my evening:

1. Get Me Away from Here, I'm Dying - Belle and Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister
2. There's No Home for You Here - The White Stripes, Elephant
3. Departure - REM, New Adventures in Hi-Fi
4. Los Angeles, I'm Yours - The Decemberists, Her Majesty
5. Tallahassee - The Mountain Goats, Tallahassee
6. One Horse Town - The Thrills, So Much for the City
7. Thrice All American - Neko Case, Furnace Room Lullaby
8. Mining Town - Whiskeytown, Faithless Street
9. Little America - REM, Reckoning
10. Looking for a Way Out - Uncle Tupelo, Anthology
11. Reno Dakota - Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs Vol. 1
12. Sodom, South Georgia - Iron and Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days
13. Home - Leona Naess, self-titled
14. Between the Bars (lv) - Elliott Smith, Live in Stockholm
15. In the Garage (lv) - Weezer, WFNX studio recording
16. This Place is a Prison - The Postal Service, Give Up
17. Song for Myla Goldberg - The Decemberists, Her Majesty
18. Gone for Good - The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow
19. Mississippi - Bob Dylan, Love and Theft
20. Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
21. Home Again Garden Grove - The Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed
22. My Wandering Days Are Over - Belle and Sebastian, Tigermilk

Btw, Hec, I love the comp CD lots.

Btw, Hec, I love the comp CD lots.

It's fun, huh? Worth it for me, just to find such a classic glam track as "Roxy Roller" which I'd never heard before though apparently both Nick Gilder and Bryan Adams re-recorded it. It's Nick's composition, and he originally did it in his band Sweeney Todd. When he left that band, the sixteen year old Bryan was recruited to be in it. Weird, huh? All kinds of odd corners of Canadian rock and roll to explore. (Nick Gilder, of course, is best known for his solo hit "Hot Child In the City.")

That's a great geography lesson mix, tina. I think you're eager for a road trip.

I really dig Belle and Sebastien.

I really dig Belle and Sebastien.

It took me a while to get into them... but now I love 'em.

I heard em on RadioIO eclectic a lot, but they're used on all the teen dramas and genre shows I love, so I've heard them before.