Good morning. Hello. How are you? #1104
Alert! Toddler Goth Night at Man Ray. How to sort your Taylor's Versions. What does Taylor's Version even mean anymore anyway. Walmart remodel.
Good morning! Hi! How’s it going? Friday, yo! Exciting. Sorry I’m late. Had to do the Walmart/recycling run and I had some work to do this morning that couldn’t wait. But all that’s done. And I am here with you now, my friends, and that’s what matters, isn’t it?
Family is on the mend. Jane is at school. Still has a cough but the strep is gone. I am still weak and occasionally have bouts of slight nausea but it is nothing like Wednesday. I can almost ignore it. Headache is maybe 10% of Wednesday. My god that was bad. Antibiotics, man. Good shit.
Was three minutes late to getting Jane to school. Was about 25th in line. Jane was curious about the line, and who was first, what happens if we’re late, etc. I asked her if she is usually first in her class — I figured we’re usually pretty early, good chance she’s first. But she said no, she’s never been first. Caroline is always first. I am in awe at Caroline’s parents. Well played.
I was four spots behind G Wagon Lady but right ahead of Van Guy and now he knows I like Wax Trax and Ghostly and the Food Bank because of my bumper stickers so I assume now he knows how cool I am. Just like Pharmacy Goth Chick knows how cool I am now after going into the pharmacy twice in my 4AD baseball cap. So cool. I am so cool.
Walmart was crazy they are remodeling the store. All the aisles are changing. Like entire aisles are physically moving. Not just the items on the shelves, the actual shelves. It is very confusing. The LPs moved. The Blu Rays moved. The velcro moved. Actually come to think of it, every non-grocery item I needed was in a different place. The entire electronics area is empty. They say there is a grand re-opening in May, but they will be done with the remodel “this month.” Not sure about the two month discrepancy there. Who am I to ask questions.
There were no EVs in the parking lot that was sad.
The special needs employee who loves to collect carts has a friend.
There was a near incident at the checkout as I bought a bottle of wine and signaled the attendant that I need to show my ID, and she came over, but she told me to “finish checking out and then she would check my ID” which… which… c’mon man! I am the country’s leading expert on Walmart self-checkout procedures and this is not on. Gave serious consideration to acting aggrieved but instead, in a typical Gen-X fashion, I just shrugged.
But I’m duly registering my protest to you, my trusty readership.
Hold on a sec, lawyer’s calling. God. Will this issue ever go out today.
Okay anyway, here is the big news: GOTH DANCE NIGHT FOR TODDLERS AND KIDS AT MAN RAY APRIL 6TH. The “night” (it will be 4-7 or so).
The night is called REAL WILD CHILD.
I am very excited.
Emma has made an awesome flyer. Just finalizing the DJ lineup with XTine.
Mark your calendars.
It is going to be so fun.
Have you wanted to go to the new Man Ray but haven’t been able to because of your kids? Now’s your chance.
Do you want your kids to be able to say they’ve been to the best goth club in America? Now’s your chance?
Your kid want to dress like Daniel Ash and dance to Dog End of the Day Gone By or Yin and Yang and the Flowerpot Man (ahem Liz)? Now’s your chance!
It’s gonna be great.
Okay I gotta talk about Taylor some more sorry. How is Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) a “Taylor’s Version”???? Does nothing have meaning anymore? Did some new, non-Scoorer Braun evil corporate villain make her put out the other two versions of Taylor Swift The Eras Tour?? Where I come from, when I grew up, “Taylor’s Version” had some meaning. It meant fighting the man, fucking the patriarchy. Who’s the patriarchy here that has now released three different film versions of the same tour? What in Sam Hill Is going on here.
On a slightly more pro-Swiftie bent, can someone else who has all the vinyl please tell me the correct filing method for the Taylor’s Verions? I am having a hell of a time. Originally I decided they were new albums, and I stuck them all in chronological order with her other albums, like I do with any other artist. This meant that my vinyl filing went:
Fearless
Speak Now
Red
1989
Reputation
Lover
Folklore
Evermore
Long Pond Sessions
Fearless (TV)
Red (TV)
Midnights
Speak Now (TV)
1989 (TV) (though weirdly, at this moment, I cannot find either of my vinyl copies of this album)
This is how, for example, Discogs lists Taylor’s discography.
The most obvious problem with this approach is Taylor’s weird decision to release the Red TV before Speak Now TV so the sorting just feels chaotic.
Wikipedia, by contrast, lists them with the Taylor’s Versions broken out into a separate batch. So my record crate (god, she almost fills up an entire crate at this point. Not as bad as Spacemen 3/Spiritualized/Sonic Boom/Spectrum but close, and they are two people and have three decades on Taylor) filing would go:
Fearless
Speak Now
Red
1989
Reputation
Lover
Folklore
Evermore
Long Pond Sessions
Midnights
Fearless (Taylors Version)
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
Red (Taylor’s Version)
1989 (Taylor’s Version)
This is how I did it until yesterday. You’ll note there’s a slight cheat here — I put Red TV back into its correct place after Speak Now TV.
But now I’m thinking I don’t like this, it bothers me, and it doesn’t feel spiritaully chronological. So, yesterday, while on a work phone call, I resorted them placing the TV versions next to their original versions. So now it goes like this:
Fearless
Fearless TV
Speak Now
Speak Now TV
Red
Red TV
1989
1989 TV
Reputation
Lover
Folklore
Folklore Long Pond Sessions
Evermore
Midnights
You’ll also notice I scooted the Long Pond Sessions back a slot to be next to Folklore. This felt spiritually right as well.
I assume many of you have been having these exact same problems, so I am curious to know how you have approached them.
Okay well have a lovely weekend.
All right fine friends here is a Shoegaze playlist it is a good’un all new I think? Yes. Looks like it. Love the new Fauns. Can’t believe the Veldt played O’Brien’s recently. I may have said that before, that is the level of my disbelief. IAN SWEET you will recall from the recent capitalization scandal I explored. Oh the Jessica Bailiff is old been exploring her old work with David from Flying Saucer Attack and other side projects. Except this is neither this is just pure, mainlined Jessica Bailiff.
Righty-o. Jolly good. Let’s talk on Monday. Have a spiffing weekend. George Emerson is spiffing (deep cut).
Had a 4AD night last night as Scott D and I did our Dead DJ night at Broken Land. Day of the Dead was on 4AD, of course, obv The Ntl too, AND the bartender last night was wearing a Cocteau Twins shirt.