That's right, you ain't seen nothin' like the Mighty Quinn.

Friday's absolutely gorgeous, early-fall-in-Chautauqua-County weather gave way to cold and rainy on Saturday, nixing any plans to bike up to Manayunk along the Schuykill River. And today is just a little too cold for it to be enjoyable, and it would simply degrade into some kind of masochistic exercise of pain and uncomfortableness. Bah. This is most possibly the last good weekend we'll see in a while.

I spent most of yesterday lounging around the apartment, finally beating Half Life 2, doing a bit of recording, listening to the records sent to me for Aural Minority. So far, the Man Man and His Name is Alive have been my running favorites. I feel slightly out of the loop on things coming out lately, and when I think about it, nothing I've bought lately has been by a new artists, just new releases from old ones.

And speaking of old ones, a trip to Hope on 7th (a thrift store owned by Peter Lehman, who drummed with us for a short time) yielded a nice haul in vinyl. That said haul consisted of:
- Bob Dylan's Best of... Vol. 2 and 3: Purchased mostly because I have a constant urge to hear my Dylan on vinyl, and it doesn't really matter if I already have the songs in other forms. You can't have too many versions of "Maggie's Farm" around, anyway.
- EC and the Attractions' Armed Forces: I've owned this on CD about three different ways, but seeing it all big with full sized cover art made me have to grab it as well. Probably going to frame it, as I've said about a hundred other LPs I've bought over the last few years.
- Faces' A Nod Is As Good As a Wink: This is the first live recording they did after the split. Rod Stewart is highly misunderstood when all you take into consideration is his work after the 80s, and his vocals as a young man are much better.

- Bruce Springsteen's The River: Possibly the only Springsteen album I can stand as an album. Released before Born in the USA, it's got all the swagger and power of his full-force arena rock before he actually started playing arenas.
- Queen's Live Killers: Purchased mostly for an extremely long version of "Brighton Rock", perhaps one of the best guitar songs ever written. It appears to take up more than half of side three.



Today my plans consist of making gucamole, bringing it to James and Ange's place and watching the game. It's odd, I never got into football in any way untill I moved to Philly, which is an absolutely insane sports town. It just affects you and you can't really do anything about it. I get Flyers stats on my cell phone, for God's sake.