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alfvaenI love the library booksale table. They have weeded paperbacks, hardcovers, children's books, and sometimes even AV stuff there for a quarter or a dollar apiece. They're trying to get rid of it to make room for other stuff. Most of it has library barcodes and stuff stuck to it, but some doesn't--I presume those are anonymous donations that they didn't actually want to keep. Sometimes I go to it with a philosophy of "If it's SF, I'll buy it." Other times, not so much. I've picked up books there that I've never read and may never read. Every once in a while I even find a CD there that I've listened to and want.
Yesterday almost all of the CDs there were children's albums, with one exception, a non-barcoded CD called "Australia" by somebody named Howie Day. Never heard of him. I looked at the song titles--no, not children's, looks sort of alternativy, but it's hard to tell from just the titles. Oh, what the heck, it's just a buck, I'll buy it. So I bought it.
I'm listening to it now, with a healthy feeling of serendipity, enjoying it a fair bit. I searched for him on The All-Music Guide and discovered that this is his 2002 debut album, and that he was born in 1981. Musically...well, I'm not good at dancing about architecture, but it's alternative singer-songerwriter kind of stuff, but not as sparse as some of that stuff can get. The only thing that pops to mind is Greg Garing, not exactly a household name either; the AMG review namechecks Dave Matthews, among others. But anyway, I'm liking it, and glad I picked it up.
Yesterday almost all of the CDs there were children's albums, with one exception, a non-barcoded CD called "Australia" by somebody named Howie Day. Never heard of him. I looked at the song titles--no, not children's, looks sort of alternativy, but it's hard to tell from just the titles. Oh, what the heck, it's just a buck, I'll buy it. So I bought it.
I'm listening to it now, with a healthy feeling of serendipity, enjoying it a fair bit. I searched for him on The All-Music Guide and discovered that this is his 2002 debut album, and that he was born in 1981. Musically...well, I'm not good at dancing about architecture, but it's alternative singer-songerwriter kind of stuff, but not as sparse as some of that stuff can get. The only thing that pops to mind is Greg Garing, not exactly a household name either; the AMG review namechecks Dave Matthews, among others. But anyway, I'm liking it, and glad I picked it up.
