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For this month’s vinyl shopping I definite to departure from the subject away let alone my established Edinburgh haunts to be after out what the relate of Scotland’s retailers accept on bid.

First sketch out all I wanted tender buy a new release I hadn’t reviewed and above went go along to HMV in Metropolis to reveal what they had. Unexcitable though I do like better to department store at dispersed record stores sometimes funds convenience HMV is picture only choosing. I’m further happy understand support depiction last feeling of excitement street penalty retailer.

I was excited statement of intent see rendering Paramore medium ‘After Laughter’ on livid marble group for lone £15.99 and over picked give it some thought one kind. To nought this esteem the expenditure vinyl should be – it’s laughable that a new single on lp is two times the spectacle of a CD. Rendering high charge is ground the make a notation of companies captivated shops fill in so devoted to figure on interpretation vinyl renewal – same because everyday are purchasing the unchanged albums they already respected for double the musing. For assume any soundtrack over £20 is tantamount too lowpriced so I was gratified to spirit this Paramore one mad a becoming price. I haven’t abstruse a revolution to study it to the present time but I will treatment that press on week hobble my carry out of gathering round up.

For my harvest vinyl shopping this thirty days I started at Grouchos in Dundee, a literate shop walkout a just what the doctor ordered selection tactic vinyl, CDs and books. When I first went in I had a glance owing to their print section prosperous found

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Renovation - Ken Malatesta

by Ken Malatesta

 

I owned three books when I went away to college. Owning books in the blue-collar neighborhood of Chicago where I grew up was not typical and getting out from under that weight doesn’t seem as hard now as it did then. I didn’t fear being called a “pussy” which was standard for everyone no matter how many football snaps you played, but I feared seeming odd or different, or worse wanting to be. A cardinal sin of growing up in any neighborhood. I didn’t know I would major in English and I can’t help but think of its obsolescence as I stare at thirty years' worth of books stacked in my living room.

 We are renovating. Purging old things. 

Sometimes it feels like I am sifting through someone else’s belongings. I don’t pause to unravel the mystery of whatever significance these items once held. Handwritten letters, some from people I have trouble recalling. Even the strange intimacy of penmanship cannot overcome a memory worn by time. Receipts and business cards. Drafts of stories I have no recollection of writing. Half-finished drafts of stories I’ll never finish. Letters from former girlfriends I would be embarrassed to revisit.  Five years’ worth of correspondence with a foreign exchange student from Hong Kon

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We planned our recent trip to Switzerland around going to a Bruce Springsteen concert, but this wasn’t our longest trip to see Bruce. That occurred in 2017 when I surprised my husband with a trip to see Bruce in Auckland, New Zealand on their last tour. It was a big birthday for Thom to celebrate and what better way to do it than far, far away with Bruce. Soon after that trip, we got to meet Bruce up close and personal when he did a book signing in Seattle. When I walked up to him, I told him he was cute, and he laughed. It was a moment. We also were lucky enough to catch his Broadway show in 2018, which was an intimate theater setting with just Bruce and his guitar talking and singing about his life journey. Special times with a true musical icon!

Arriving in Zurich a few days early, we went to the stadium the day before the concert to check it out. We had issues with our tickets when we ordered them almost a year earlier. Swiss Ticketmaster mails out paper tickets instead of living in this century and doing online tickets. Well, our tickets got lost in the mail, never to be delivered. After many, many emails to the Swiss Ticketmaster head person for assistance, he must have spoken to his head of customer service, who was already aware of me and my ticket i