Comments on One More Week for Tower Scavengers

friends and crocodiles is a terrfic movie. just terrific. and no one knows.

Heading up to the U-District store after work . . . thanks for the reminder.

Yay for Laura Viers!

I was booooorn a someday man of a maybe child; I was born a someday man of a heart that's wild. Tomorrow's a new day, baby; anything can happen, anything can happen at allllllllll. Great stuff. The Monkees did a version too, but Paul's has a crazy swelling vibe to it. The great Roger Nichols is all over that record, too.

I remember seeing Paul Williams on daytime talk shows back in the early seventies (Merv, Mike, Dick), a short, dorky-looking guy in a powder-blue leisure suit, and laughing. But he was a powerhouse.

I never much cared for Tower Records, except that they were the only place that carried almost the complete line of those droolworthy Bear Family box sets. 23 CDs of Dean Martin! 12 of Bob Wills! Fuck yeah!

Is the whole chain closing? Or just the QA store?

The whole chain.

And Fnarf, I bought the record because I know and love the Monkees version so well.

Well, Sean, you're about to get your mind blown, then (not that there's anything wrong with the Monkees, the archetypical sixties group). Next you should track down Roger Nichols and His Small Circle of Friends.

Did you forget to check the DISCOUNT PORN section? I did half of my Xmas shopping all up in there.

Tower was charging $19 for regular CDs back when you could still get them for $13-15. Good riddance. They ran their company all wrong, gouged consumers, pandered the same pop crap that people are starting to turn away from, and now play like online downloading did them in. Bullshit: their own bad business sense did them in.

Needless to say, I don't share your infatuation with the shiny conglomerate.

I bought R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" on DVD for 5 bucks. My quality of life has vastly improved since.