Admission to the Burning Ruins — 10¢ (laughingacademy) wrote,
Admission to the Burning Ruins — 10¢
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Spoils of the WFMU Record Fair 2006

Once again, I spent three hours at the Tchotchke Swag Table (high points included ruthlessly exploiting a little girl so her father would buy the last of the ’FMU Party Van magnets; being taped for a segment of a local cable show, New York Noise, in which a dealer, with as straight a face as he could manage, assured me that my The Civil War CD was worth at least eight thousand dollars; and seeing not one but two giant mutant rabbits at the Info Table) before blowing waaaaaay too much money on CDs and stuff.

This Year’s Haul

a book about cocktails whose title and author I cannot currently remember Wiliam Grimes, Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail

DVDs
Decasia and Sun Ra: Space Is the Place

CDs
Beck, Guero
Johnny Cash, Personal File
Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True
Devo, EZ Listening
Future Bible Heroes, Eternal Youth
The Hampton String Quartet, What If Mozart Wrote “Roll Over Beethoven”
Kronos Quartet, Henryk Górecki String Quartets 1, 2
Stephin Merritt, Showtunes
One Ring Zero, As Smart As We Are; Wake Them Up
Pizzicato Five, Happy End of the World
Elvis Presley, Elvis’ Christmas Album
Thai Elephant Orchestra, Thai Elephant Orchestra; Elephonic Rhapsodies
various artists, Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Thom Yorke, The Eraser

Soundtracks
12 Monkeys: Music from the Motion Picture, various artists
Amadeus: Original Soundtrack Recording, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
The Civil War — Traditional American Songs And Instrumental Music Featured In The Film By Ken Burns: Original Soundtrack Recording, various artists
The Glenn Miller Story, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Original Soundtrack, various artists
The Matrix: Music from the Motion Picture, various artists
The Straight Story: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack, Angelo Badalamenti
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