Wasn't That Shirley Temple's Ship?

Last night there was a customer in our store, short skinny guy with a widow's peak of short-cropped red hair, meandering around our store and talking covertly into his shirt sleeve about the CIA and how they "need to call John Langley and move the troupes in" or something (John Langley, or somebody like that, supposedly created the show Cops, I guess) and just wandering around being a weirdo. Well, he was back again today. He presented Brian with a note that he claims he found in the store and demanded to know which one of us had written it in our handwriting. The note said something about the CIA and "I know what the lollipop is because the lollipop is what you do to relieve the stress" or something like that. The guy proceeded to explain that one of our staff was following him around the store last night and then circling him in his car in the parking lot and then he claimed that he tried to make him get into his car to have oral sex with him at gunpoint. Naturally the person he described was nobody on our staff. And naturally the note was written by the guy himself. He started rambling on about how he knew all about the CIA following him and that he knew all about the "lollipop", which he said was in reference to ship's name in a Star Trek episode (?) where a person was paid a thousand dollars (???) to kill himself by hitting himself over the head with a hammer (?????!!!) and then the guy started charading the action with his own hand to, I suppose, "hammer" the point home. Yeah, so. Anyway, that was my Adventures In Psychosis this afternoon. On to the latest acquisitions.


The long-awaited release of The Name Of The Band Is Cowboy Mouth on DVD, which promises to be chock fulla Vanceypants goodness, or as much as someone who isn't the focus of the band can be. Still haven't seen it yet, since watching anything right now comes in dribs and drabs. Oh, Vance has indeed left Cowboy Mouth and appears to be working on a new pilot, although with the strike going on I can't help but wonder how that fairs at this point and time.

Ole' ole'!! Robyn Hitchcock and his long out-of-print early classics Black Snake Diamond Role, I Often Dream Of Trains, and my favorite, Eye are finally released in this way yummy box set I Wanna Go Backwards complete with original album cover art for each disk, and two extra disks While Thatcher Mauled Britain: Demos '81-'90. Also comes with a free download at yeprock.com, a sampler that apparently won't be available until October 2008. Heck, I'm just stoked about the old Hitchcock. My last indulgence for the year. That is, wellll...

I had to get this used copy of Good Time Tonight by Big Bill Broonzy, cuz it's, y'know, Big Bill Broonzy. 20 tracks, original mono recordings, all early works. Welp, that tears it. With all this good shizzy I simply have no reason to leave my house anymore.

Eh, except to go to the freakin' mall tomorrow and finish my Christmas shopping. Then comes the lifetime of self-imposed seclusion. I can hardly wait.