I'm not sure why, but I've developed a mild obsession with finding my old Mythic Tarot, even though I have a new one--probably to reassure myself that I couldn't possibly be stupid or reckless enough to lose permanently something as important as one of my decks. I'm damn near at the point where I'm ready to start searching my car.
One good thing that's come out of this is that I've found a hell of a lot of stuff to throw away.
I'm also feeling unwell, both physically and mentally, which is why I'm blogging during work hours; I called in sick and am at home.
I'm also about 100 pages behind in my reading for school. I have another 3 chapters to read, and two forum posts to post, by tomorrow evening. So I've been curled up in bed with my stuffed skunkie and reading about criminals and appeals courts and recidivism rates and stuff.
I also discovered three more Tori Amos CD's that somebody made for me, that have the B-sides off of several of her older singles and what sounds like an EP or something. And the Tornado Mix of "Talula" STILL ISN'T ON THERE. Grrr. However, if I can't find anybody who has that mix, I'll just buy the maxi single that has it from Amazon. Then I'll have to get a CD [or CD-quality MP3's] of the rest of Pele and burn my own copy. The only other alternative would be to search high and low for another factory copy of Pele that has the Tornado Mix. Apparently I picked up one of the few copies of that edition ever made, because I've never seen it again. Until then, though, at least I can have the single, that song, and the whole album as I remember it before it was destroyed.
I ended up doing something vaguely similar with Modern English's After the Snow; the CD edition I bought of it had different versions of several of the songs. Luckily, the versions that appeared on the vinyl were stuck on the end of the CD, so I burned a copy that just had the tracks from the vinyl in the order they appeared. It simply wouldn't have been the same record otherwise.
I'm still royally pissed that you can't get ZZ Top's Eliminator with the same version of "Legs" that was on my cassette. It's like at some point, everybody said, "I know, let's just gather all the songs where there's an album version and a radio version, and throw all the album versions in a big goddamn dumpster and only put radio versions on reissues from now on." Whoever out there is deciding to do that, you are a bunch of evil clownfuckers. If there are two versions, put them both on the CD. You're putting a reissue of a 40-minute album onto a 70-minute disc; it's not like there isn't room. Then let people decide what they want to hear, and if they don't like both versions, they can bloody well take a ten-cent blank CD and make their own version of the album. Or, for a no-cost solution, they can use the >| button on their remote.
Anyway, I didn't mean to start rambling about that, but there it is. Needed to be said. And with that, I'll go back to reading textbooks, writing forum posts and hunting maniacally for something that's probably lost forever. I will leave you with these words: Anchorage; parmesan; sarsen.
same bitch time, same bitch channel...
P.S. Dude, when you get back from the Continent, I'll have those tracks waiting for you, including the stuff from the singles. If I don't, make sure you yell at me. I haven't listened to all of it, but it sounds like there's some good shit on there. I'd have told you in e-mail but I don't know if you're getting my e-mails...
Posted by Frida Peeple at October 5, 2005 03:15 AM