Friday, January 13, 2006
Eyeballing the Weekend
I only have a few hours before I take off for the weekend. I'll be gone for a while, since I don't have to be back until 5:00 PM on Monday for the Golden Globes.
Some links, etc.
David Hasselhoff is getting divorced. And we should care because....?
I just got my hands on a copy of the Morningwood album. It's awesome.
Speaking of tunes...
Today I was talking to a coworker about how I used to work in a record store back when I was in high school. However, I totally date myself when I say that it was a sliver of a store called Tape World in the Stamford Mall. The walls were lined with cassettes (which I alphabetized ad nauseum) while the center was bins of CDs.
Working in a record store is a great experience for a kid, mostly because it exposes you to things your friends might not be into.
Here is a small list of albums I listened to while manning the register at Tape World in 1994. Some are cool, some are lame, but I still hold a soft spot for all of them.
Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting: As a 17-Year-Old girl, this album is a musical verison of everything you want in a guy: Sweet, sensitive but complicated. "Why Would I Cry For You" is the ultimate anthem for teenage angst, in my humble opinion.
Eric Clapton, From the Cradle: Sure, I knew Clapton, but I had never heard him so bluesy. I was mesmorized, if not a little confused.
Frank Sinatra, Duets II: I've had to purchase two different copies of this album, because in college I kept losing them/lending them out. "Fly Me to the Moon" is the money track on this one.
TLC, Crazy, Sexy Cool: The day that I got my acceptance letter to Syracuse I was listening to this album while on a bus en route to a basketball game that I had to cheerlead at. I told myself that if I didn't get into Syracuse I would go to California and go to Santa Barbara Junior College for a year, then transfer to UC Santa Barbara. (There was serious, serious doubt I would get into college after scoring a 380 on my math SAT.) Guess what? I got into Syracuse. The rest is history.
Ol Dirty Bastard, Return to the 36 Chambers: We had to keep this one behind the counter because people used to try to steal it. You know what? I still like it raw.
