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digweed denies

March 15, 2005 – 12:22 am

If moods could be described in terms of the animal kingdom, mine could be described typically as a marsh wren, or perhaps a tree squirrel who’s just discovered a forgotten cache of nuts. Sometimes, I’d liken it to a tufted titmouse. Today my mood is more like a rampaging bull elephant on whose back rides […]

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american spirit

March 14, 2005 – 8:10 am

I’m on the corner of Cahuenga and Sunset headed for Groundwork for some coffee and a few minutes in a chair. Supervisor MELISSA has followed me. She’s on her way to get cigarettes and coffee. I like Melissa, so I say I’ll see her at the coffee counter. She joins me later as I’m getting […]

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got music? (update)

March 10, 2005 – 12:06 am

Just wanted to add a little bit to the earlier post about applying at Amoeba. Someone told me today that we get at least a hundred applications a week. … I just want to know where they stack them all. P.S. Starting to feel better. I’ll get back to writing tomorrow. Got a couple tunes […]

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got music?

March 6, 2005 – 12:09 am

So what does it take to get a job at Amoeba, you ask? Amoeba employs over two hundred people. At any one time there are as many as one hundred people on the clock. So it would seem that getting a job there would be easy. But that depends. So what’s required to get a […]

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like a cow pissin’ on a flat rock

February 23, 2005 – 11:20 am

I sit down at Groundwork on Sunset and Cahuenga as I often do in the hour or so before work. I’d just hurried through a fierce rain squall to get there, but now that I’m pulling out my notebook, sun streams across my table. That’s the way the weather’s been lately here in L.A. Even […]

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celebrity roundup

February 19, 2005 – 11:57 pm

Tonight I spot Trent Reznor shopping the Mezzanine at work. Others tell me he comes in to Amoeba a lot, but it’s the first time I’ve seen him. I have to check three times before I’m convinced it’s him. I kinda want to tell him that The Downward Spiral remains one of my desert island […]

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vangelis alexander score

January 13, 2005 – 10:16 am

Well, this Vangelis Collector site provides a glimmer of an answer to the Alexander conundrum (see previous post.) While it mentions a recent Ebay auction of the disc, it doesn’t indicate that the price was anything unusual about it. But then, this was a few weeks ago. It seems there are some music cues on […]

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supply vs. demand

January 13, 2005 – 1:21 am

This time of year a cluster of Academy demos come through the doors of Amoeba. Often, we’ll buy them. Heck, if someone sells it to us (and it’s not an obvious bootleg) we’ll happily make it available for someone else to buy. In most cases, screeners and demo copies are marked down to sub-basement prices. […]

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