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L'air du tempo

Because the company TA is interning for this summer paid for up to 100 dollars� worth of cross-country shipping, we sent his bicycle to California.

And every single one of our Cds.

Yesterday we took half of the boxes to Amoeba and made $427 in trade. Of course we promptly turned around, got new stuff and spent about $405 of that. Who knows how much we could have made if we�d gotten full retail on a lot of those? A grand? We had about 15 Cds that the Amoeba dude said were pretty valuable, including an out of print Stereolab with a debossed and silkscreened case.

Anyway we still have 2 more boxes to go. (plus the stuff we got yesterday that we�re just going to trade in again.) After that, we will be full up on music and will only buy actual Cds when downloadable versions are not available. We bought a lot of stuff yesterday that�s not available on iTunes, but we also bought stuff that is and therefore broke our rule because really? When you�re at Amoeba, it�s hard not to feel like a kid in a candy store and just run around, apeshit, grabbing every bloody Thievery Corporation title (TA) or all the New Order that�s missing from your collection because you have it on vinyl and you never bought it on cd because you didn�t want to own it twice, never mind the fact that you haven�t had a turntable in over 10 years and sometimes you just want to listen to Age of Consent, you know? (me)

We didn�t just buy music; we also bought DVDs. We�re amassing a little film library and it�s pretty fun adding to it. Yesterday we splurged on a Criterion edition of Mon Oncle, and also got Chungking Express, Rushmore and Diva. Gah, doing the Google, I just realized that Rushmore is available in a Criterion edition so I will throw our current DVD onto the pile of things to be traded in.

The beauty of the Amoeba trade is that a) it never expires and b) it can be used at any Amoeba store. Woohoo! I swear, when we left the place, I was so cracked out of my mind and delirious with excitement that it took me, like, 10 entire minutes to settle down and pick something for our drive to Alameda (where we �visited� with TA�s eldest brother, his wife and their brood. That�s another entry.)

The weather�s gorgeous, Floyd Landis is gonna win the yellow jersey, my man Rasmussen�s got the spotted on locked up, it�s a pretty great day I�d say�

8:52 a.m. - 2006-07-23

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