I can't believe the year's almost over.
Thanksgiving is less than 2 weeks away! Insane. My boss has been away this week so I've had a little extra time on my hands.
That's code for "I was bored a lot and spent too much time messing around online". Anyway, I was looking back through my LJ in the hopes of finding out where the days went, and I noticed that I've "only" posted about 80 entries this year. And there were countless entries that I would start on, then get distracted by something else, and then come back to later on only to give up and scrap it.
Those half-formed entries are all privatized and for my eyes only, but trust me, you're not missing anything.
Clearly, someone who actually goes through drafts before hitting the "post" button is a class-A geek and probably taking this LJ business entirely too seriously, but hi, that's me. My LJ is littered with such entries, along with essays that I've saved and meant to share in the hopes of sparking some dialog, but I just never got around to doing so.
Therefore, I've decided to do a little housekeeping. It's Friday, and there's not a whole lot going on, so if you've got some time to kill, here are a few lengthy but well-written essays that eulogize the demise of the record store far more articulately than I ever could. This is a topic that's pretty dear to me, and these writers have managed to capture my feelings of nostalgia and sadness almost exactly.
The first one was written earlier this year about Aron's Records, which was my favorite store. The other two are about Tower Records, one of which was written by Alec Baldwin and brought to my attention yesterday by . 2006 was a pretty bad year for record stores, and, I'm afraid, it's just the beginning of the end.
There's a good chance that my children will never know what a record store is, and that sort of kills me a little. I'll probably have more to say about this subject later, but for now I just wanted to post these articles because they're so good. So enjoy.
Or don't. Whatever.
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