Sinister: there's too much fudge

[Ewan Dunbar]

this is my first post in a while, and i'm still a bit green as far as
posting here. oh well. anyway. I just got back from my fake-job, where I
don't really work, I just fill in. it pays very little, but it's very
easy and I can't get fired. hell, i don't work there! then I popped in
on my friend closing up at the expensive chocolate store down the
street. he bought me some expensive grand marnier fudge, but he gets it
cheap, and i'll pay him back some time. lord, it was sweet. I didn't
finish it, but that's okay cause it was half a pound to start with. now
I feel ill.

anyway, there was a modest mouse concert in toronto a couple weeks ago
which I said I was going to try to go to. I couldn't get a ride. damn.
that really drives me, because so very many people on the list have said
so many good things about them. oh well.
I have decided that I really really really really love belle and
sebastian. I know, I know, what's to decide? but I go through phases;
I'm never uninterested: I always love the band. I'm just back in my
drooling phase now.

anyhoo. last weekend I went to toronto for the ontario universities'
fair. which was dull. my plan after that was to wander around toronto
until I found soul food and a place to eat, which I did, eventually. I
was getting hot and worried until I found queen street, which is more or
less what I was looking for. I went into a couple record shops and
immediately my blood pressure sank, much like a very heavy weight with
an even heavier weight attached to the bottom of it.

I decided that for a person who, as I recently discovered, is a big fan
of indie music -- indie was one of those terms I used to just throw
around, until I realized that the only difference between me and most
big indie people is a) a lot of them are fake indie people (whereas I
didn't know I was an indie person at all, though I was suspicious when I
noticed I didn't like any of the music on the radio and preferred
relatively unknown "independent" bands) and b) I buy very little music
and don't know much about very many bands, I just listen to suggestions
from reputable sources (like sinister)) -- anyway, for a person who is a
big fan of indie music, I needed to actually *own* some velvet
underground albums. 

basically the only albums (altogether) that I have are all my b&s stuff,
The Queen Is Dead, and the best of the velvets. I don't have much. so I
bought a copy of the velvet underground and nico. the guy looked at me
like i was from another planet when I wanted to buy it on cd. he said,
of people buying cds of the velvets etc. over vinyl, and of cd's of
pre-80 stuff in general, and I quote, "It Burns My Ass". I liked that. I
told him I would much prefer it on vinyl. what I didn't tell him was
that, considering I have so few albums, I haven't had a working
turntable in a long time. I was ashamed to admit it, so I didn't. but
anyway, he discovered he actually didn't have a copy of it left on
vinyl. I was about to buy a vinyl copy of White Light/White Heat,
because that had been a dream of mine for a really long time. plus there
was one of the Live 69 records. I'm not sure why I didn't buy it. that
would've been better. basically I don't have a turntable right now. so I
would have had to wait a while.

but I bought a cd of the banana album. and you know what? now I know
what he meant by "It Burns My Ass". Hearing this album on a cd really
BURNS MY ASS! It doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I will get a copy on
vinyl as soon as I have some money (and maybe even a turntable). I ate
an eggsalad sammich on a bagel at union station and went home. I saw a
friend on the train going back. she was with her sister and we talked
about whether we were really back in stratford or whether we had somehow
gone into stratford without really being there -- coz for some reason it
didn't seem like stratford.

anyway, this is getting very long and boring and intimidating looking,
and probably no one will read it because of that. so I'll cut it off he
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