Awesome! The picture vinyls look really cool!

Solid release from those dudes - 40 years!

Congrats on the harvest, but not for me! - I get mild curry when I have Indian food. Tried the medium once and almost couldn't eat it due to how hot it was. Friend of mine ordered the hottest curry they had and it didn't even bother him at all. He's into that high scoville-rated food, I'll stick with applesauce, lol.

Aye - 25 years and it sometimes seems like yesterday. Then again, the My Lai massacre sometimes seems like yesterday. And when we had so many WWII veterans still running around, Pearl Harbor seemed like yesterday. When I was growing up, an old guy up the street was a WWI vet. It seemed like yesterday to him. Sometimes.

Time goes on, people forget, and what was once such a massively important event that seemingly would never unravel from the social fabric, does. Not right or wrong, just what it is. I mention this because several months ago I overheard a conversation between some younger folks (early 20s) and one did not know WTF happened on 9/11. At all.

My haul this past Saturday:
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Justice - non-name, cross symbol - 4LP 180g rave/dance/club music. It's unusual

The Cramps - A Date with Elvis 180g

The Cramps - Fiends of Dope Island 180g

Cream - Fresh Cream ATCO red letter advance copy

Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again Original, cover is split all to hell, disk looks rough, it was cheap, and it sounds great!

Love - Love NM/NM with original inner sleeve. Fantastic condition

Re:Vis:Er - Doloroso A local Kansas City band, post-punk with a dark edge

Judas Priest - Painkiller 180g

Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla 180g, textured cover

Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch NM/NM on Barking Pumpkin/letter from Frank

Fleetwood Mac - Madison Blues 3LP 180g Kiln House-era live and unreleased songs. A few from Christine McVie's pre-Fleetwood Mac material

Talking Heads - Naked original with disk held inside the gatefold, with all the swag.

Janis Joplin - Farewell Songs 180g, new reissue of the 1982 release her family made to cash in on her fame. Has good tunes on it despite its less-than honorable origins.

Typhon: It's good to approach things that seem too good to be true with a healthy dose of skepticism. And frankly, I have done a considerable amount of reflection and thought on the matter myself. So has she, for that matter. I'd call what we share a fairytale but it's real.

Charger: Good insight; she already has

Z: It is indeed - exactly. And it worked!

Interesting story about the "disappointment room".

In other news, my mystery day was today. The mystery was unveiled. The woman in my life, knowing my affinity for records, took it upon herself to search out all record shops within a 2 hour drive of my home, called all of them to determine if they were open/still in business, and the list dropped to five. She developed an itinerary and driving directions that made the best use of time (and gasoline), and then input it into my car's GPS. I did not know wtf we were doing, or where we were going until the first stop. A record store! I went in and was stunned to find several records I wanted, of the collectable variety. I decided I was going to spend a lot of money in this place, so bought a bunch of records.

When it was time to check out, she jumped in front of me and paid for them all.

Off to the next stop - another record store! In fact, we hit all five, and I bought stuff at all five, and she paid for all of it. Then lunch at a Japanese place called The Bento Box and it was authentic, and delicious. Yep, she paid for that too. Back home I went, with her in tow.

I have never in my life had anyone do anything of the sort for me. I'm still in somewhat of a state of disbelief. The time and effort to set this up, not tell me what was going on, then execute her surprise. Man, I'm taken aback. It was a thoughtful application of knowledge about something I enjoy and she spent the entire day dedicated to it. And on her dime. Wow!

She's still here, elsewhere in the house. I'm finishing this up and a couple of other things, then joining her.

What a day!