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[theholyinnocent]

Today's complaint: Another great independent bookstore is closing. It was bad enough to see NYC lose a lot of its independent gay bookstores (A Different Light, the Oscar Wilde Bookstore in the Village), now this. It makes me want to go buy stuff at my favorite downtown bookstore. Must. Resist. "But holy, you always said you wanted a complete set of Proust..." Stop it right there, sister!

Today's amusement (which you won't appreciate unless you're a fan of the U.S. version of The Office): Battlestar Office-ica.

Once upon a time I had composed lyrics to the BSG theme, which I would sing at the beginning of every episode I saw, in my best Lisa Gerrard meets Edina Monsoon voice:

It's the Battlestar...Galactica!
We blow things up.
Cylons have sex.

Battlestar. Oh.

(Sorry, badtyler, I haven't been able to find the lyrics to my other hit, "Me and Robert Downey"...)

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[badtyler.livejournal.com]

Another one bites the dust... gah, that upsets me and I won't even be living in NY anymore. But every time an independent bookstore dies, another big box wanker piece of crap makes more money.

The last time I visited A Different Light... it's an awful feeling, to know I won't go there again. Can't go there again. I almost wish I'd known it would be the last time... but maybe that's for the best.
Bloody wankers.
If Kitchen Arts and Letters goes... um, hmm? Guess I can't be all that threatening. How sad. I feel so powerless. I'm just hoping The Librairie on Chartres St. is still open in New Orleans. It is (was?) a wonderful place to buy used books of every persuasion.

I can't find my silly lyrics, either... I have a feeling they'll turn up when I start packing up all the crap in my desk.

Cylons have sex.
Lucky Cylons.
*bg*

I'd better stop before I attempt to convince you that you need that set of Proust...

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

If Kitchen Arts and Letters goes

Lenox Hill Books, which is in that neck of the woods, closed not too long ago. And I heard that Gotham Book Mart is having problems and may not reopen. (Their rent? Is $51,000. A MONTH.)

Lucky Cylons.

I'm confident you will have sex again! As God is mah witness! Hell, you're gonna be in NO....

$51,ooo.oo???

[badtyler.livejournal.com]

Sweet Jesus Case... that's a lot of rent.
Also a very sore spot with me, cos I hate going into B&N, but... sometimes, one must have a book. Stat!

Yes, I read something somewhere about NO being the one place where the Bible Belt is always unbuckled.
I wish I could claim I said that, but... I didn't!

And I did find a place in the heart of the gayest part of the French Quarter.

If I don't get lucky there... ah, let's not even entertain the notion!

You've got mail...all over again?

[(Anonymous)]

Hey baby doll, another fab book store gone! Drat! That is sad, but with Starbucks in every B&N...who could resist, huh?

Sweetie...babe, could you please compose lyrics to Lawrence of Arabia. I've given it a go but my Gothic style and drinking...well, it just doesn't go well with the whole Arab, sand, hot, sun, war thingy plot. Oh Holy...can I tell mum you'll give it a go. She would be thrilled. Smooches...sweetie. Ta-ta. SZJ.

Re: You've got mail...all over again?

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Baby doll, I love Lawrence of Arabia--one of my favorite movies. I'll have to give another listen to the soundtrack!

[maroukian.livejournal.com]

Okay, this really made me lol--not the shuttered bookstore, of course, but Lisa Gerrard meets Edina Monsoon and your lyrics!
HaHa!
I actually sort of sung them to see how it would sound. I think I did it justice. I really do.
I carried the Oh into a vibrato... When you envisioned the libretto, did you intend that to be a short Oh or an extended note? Please advise. ty :)

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

When you envisioned the libretto, did you intend that to be a short Oh or an extended note?

The latter, a long, low note of despair, sort of like when Eddy finds out Patsy has finished off all the Bolli.

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

Loved Battlestar Office-ica!

And word on closing independant bookstores. There was a great little place called Nickleby's not far from my bachelor pad. I loved going there! Now it's a Caribou Coffee.

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

There was a great little place called Nickleby's not far from my bachelor pad.

Where, no doubt, you were ceaselessly trying to pick up girls with glasses. "That Sartre sure was riding a major bummer, huh? Let's say you and me get existential back at my place..."

[stargazer1960.livejournal.com]

Loved the funny.
Hate to lose another independent bookstore.
Sad.

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

It is Teh Suck. I feel bad because I never went there much anymore, mainly b/c I'm rarely in that part of town.

[projectcyborg.livejournal.com]

you are definitely going to have to sing this for me ;)

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

It must be accompanied by much wine! :)