pixiecrinkle | Music notes

For you local music fiends, there's a going out of business sale at a campus CD store.

For the rest of you music fiends, you must get your hands on this this Nick Hornby book, Songbook. I got it out of the library last night after finally getting my turn on the reserve list. I haven't started reading it yet, but I find the idea of a book of essays about various popular songs, with a companion CD to be brilliant. It helps that he likes stuff I like too (Ani D., Rufus Wainwright, Badly Drawn Boy, Aimee Mann). It's like a mixtape in CD/Book form. I think I'm going to have to own my own copy. I'm a sucker for books that *look* this good too.

I also got the new Ani Difranco CD last night. I just love going into Magnolia on Tuesdays, in all my work drag. At least the guy behind the counter didn't seem to look at me as strangely as all the customers (

yerpretty, I think it was Tom B.--he said he worked in radio). It's a good CD. It's definitely for those that didn't like the Ani sound after she added all the horns and bands and stuff. It's just her, playing and singing it all by herself. I liked all the brass/sax/jazz stuff she was doing, but this is good. Not my fave yet, but good.