More beef than deli's.

[raybear]

A few weeks I wrote about a particular r&b song I'd heard on the radio a couple times that used Peter Frampton-eque computerized voices at the end of the song. The song was sort of a guilty pleasure, as many r&b songs are for me, but I hadn't made any significnant moves to find out the title of song or looking into picking up the single. Well, this morning I just learned that I already own it. That is so me. I bought a single solely for the b-side song that I loved, and it turns out the a-side is the song I was talking about. This phenomenon is unfortunately quite common for me -- there are numerous gems in my collection that I don't even realize until after the fact. I've only rarely purchased things twice though -- I think it's actually only happened once, and it was just a cheap vinyl single, so no big deal. More likely, I'll be hunting around for a song in someone else's collection for them to put on a mixtape for me, and then I later discover I already had it. Or even more embarassing, I ask someone if they have a song and they inform me that I already own it, because they've scoped my inventory. Doh. But I think Damon is the only one who's ever pulled that with me, since he's somewhat intimately acquainted with my collection from living together for a year.

Now I'm listening to a partial dub of his copy of J to the L-O. And in the remix of "If You Had My Love" has the robotic voice too -- though it's more closely akin to Cher's "Believe". Suddenly I feel very dirty. I think I will take this tape out and replace it with Miles Davis's In A Silent Way. I mean, I'm not ashamed at all for liking certain sickeningly sweet music, but it can start to numb the aural taste buds. One can't eat popcorn for every meal.

So on Saturday I think I'm going to the Empty Bottle for the film fundraiser, despite finding the location of the bar extremely annoying from a public transportation point of view. I think geechee mentioned going -- and probably freakysparks too? Look for me there. I'll be the lone cat trying to hold my drink seductively (or perhaps smoking cigarettes if I don't have any cash). I'm also down for a challenging game of Centipede, which they have at the bar, even though I pretty much suck at it.

Comments

[freakysparks.livejournal.com]

I will see you there. I'll be busy getting into frat-boy mode.

[ex-fish.livejournal.com]

How does one get into frat-boy mode?

My friends describe my style as frat-boy-chic.

[freakysparks.livejournal.com]

It is specific to the act I will be doing.
Aggressive but secretly gay frat boy.

I am brooding and get into shoving matches with my co-performer.

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[ex-fish.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Do you guzzle beer and howl at the moon?

That's what the frat boys I used to live next to did.

[cruelnails.livejournal.com]

So I don't know why (becuase I really don't like them that much) but somehow I've bought The Cars Greatest Hits on vinyl 3 times.

No one wants a copy, cuz ... well ... they're The Cars; so now it looks like I'm the biggest Cars fan on earth - when in reality I just have no idea what I've already bought when I go shopping.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

well, if it makes you feel any betterm *I* would probably take one off your hands. But then again, I could probably also walk down to my favorite shop and find it in the 99-cent bin.

I think I have two copies of the Best of the Doobie Brothers.

Cleo Bears 2: The Return of Cleo Bears

[limenal.livejournal.com]

I find it extremely bizarre that you posted about the Cher "Believe" effect in "If you had my love" because I noticed that same thing last night when you guys were playing it and I thought about how I enjoy that effect and how I hate myself for it. That is all.