Record shops are difficult to navigate over here. Their genre definitions don't tally with my expectations. So you find Roots Manuva in World Music and Goldfrapp in Rock and Soul. And then 93 aisles of country bumpkin nonsense.
Best of all is the 'Go-To Make Out' selection in Tower Records, purportly a musical magic carpet to carry you from coffee-drinking to face-munching 'back at yours'. Helicopter Girl was top of the list, lads. Personally I recommend Sweetback - 60 mins of aural rohypnol. What are your favourite "go-to make out' tracks, readers?!
I saw Tracy Chapman live on Friday night at the excellent Independent. Unexpectedly, she came dressed as a 21 year old white dude and sangs songs about driving a truck to surfing beaches. Closer inspection revealed a shallow Tracy impersonator. Had I been equipped with white stick and sunglasses, I'd love to have hollered a request for 'Fast Car'. I might have got in trouble though - I think he was wearing a wrestling costume.
Incidentally, can you imagine my delight to discover that a large beer here is called a 'growler'? And to have two drinks on the go at once? That's 'double-fisting'.....
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