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Sunday, June 22, 2003 np: the dream syndicate - the days of wine and roses the song, "days of wine and roses" is possibly the highlight of the entire record. it's track nine, the final track on the original album, and it ends in nearly 8 minutes of brilliance. a roughshod, noisy verse and chorus..and several breakdowns, the longest of which culminates in three to four minutes of noisy, shrill bliss. and then as soon as it starts, it ends. suddenly. damnation, that's a great song. we had our midnight sale for the new harry potter book at the bookstore last night. honestly, the last time i was in a group of people even numbering that large awaiting the release of something was when gate city noise released radiohead's kid a at a midnight sale my sophomore year of college. of course, as you might imagine, this was a much larger group. we sold over five-hundred copies of the book, and there were probably 400 or so people there. we got everyone checked out in about twenty minutes, which was amazing, but we were there until two a.m. cleaning up and we still left the store in quite a state. of course, nothing could follow this up but a visit to waffle house. and good it was. this brilliant idea came to me tonight while i was straightening shelves after we closed. i found a shorter version of the oxford english dictionary, compacted into one volume. it has 33% of the words contained in the full, twenty volume OED. which means that's still a hell of a lot of words. why this is important? well, ever since my dad and i both read the professor and the madman, he's been insisting (though long proven incorrect; now it's mostly for humor) that he once saw a huge one volume set of the complete OED. well, obviously he's wrong. but he continues to bring up "the big dictionary" from time to time as a gag. well, when i saw the shorter edition tonight, i knew it was a calling from god. father's day is past (and my brother and i took him out to breakfast, although i have neglected getting him an official present; my bad) and the next thing coming up is his birthday and christmas. (dec. 23rd and 25th, respectively.) so what better way to celebrate them both with a duel present: a lectern and the short OED? i started pricing lecterns since i saw the short OED price ($150..yikes!). and lemme tell you. don't go into lectern shoppin' thinkin' you're gonna get away cheap. those bastards are out for blood. $200? i can only really afford the short OED cos of my bookstore discount, not to mention another big chunk for a suitable lectern? won't be happening. so i'm undertaking a noble goal for which my father cannot help but be proud of me. i'm going to build a lectern. between now and christmas, i will obtain proper wood, stain, etc. and i will build a lectern. it's a project. i like it. i'm close to finalizing the short list of songs for the next record. so soon i might have a tracklisting to share with you guys, although how many of you would actually be familiar with any of them...probably not many. trust me. i'm just entertaining myself here a lot of the time. well..my six days of work continues. at least i'm halfway through now. only three more to go and then..off to the coast to visit melissa. i'm hoping the weather stays as gorgeous as it was today. here's hoping. posted by J. Neas | 6/22/2003 02:42:00 AM
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