Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Going to book stores lately has been difficult so i have given in to the temptations of amazon.com....Dostoevsky...Notes from the underground...Kerouac....Visions of gerard

no need to apologize for amazon. same product. bigger selection. lower price. not too shabby.

I've been an amazon.com customer for years. Not just for books. CDs, too. My sister does all of her Christmas shopping on amazon.com. The prices are good, the variety is excellent, like malty said, and they've got great service. I've discovered new music and authors on that site. After you purchase there then later hit the site again, they have a feature which tells you, "some people who bought the products you bought have also bought this product and that product." It's pretty cool. They also gift wrap.

(Maybe I should send them a link to this thread and they'll send me a check for the promo. )

superstores online and otherwise killing a certain mystery of life that fed us for years and years and is now nearly gone, but there are other mysteries of life. the question is, what are you doing with the time you save on amazon.com (or wherever)? are you seeking other mysteries to replace finding a gem in a used bookstore? to replace only hearing about but not actually hearing that cut from the rolling thunder review where so and so did this or that, now found in seconds on limewire anyway? to replace the AMbiANce of exploring themes of kafka on barstools, now bantered briefly in amazon's comments section?

The internet can never replace real life. I love book stores and barstools and in-person people to meet and greet and discuss life's mysteries with. When are you coming to visit?

visit? that would be fun. be nice to get south soon. now we're still tired from yesterday. traffic getting to nyc was a bitch, spent too much money, but it's always kickass to listen to amram do his thing. i took pel to some literary joints, namely mcsorleys and chumleys, before and after the bowery poetry club event. we'll have to plan another trip at some point, cant hang here without moving around a bit, thats how we roll.

Oh... you already went and came back? Cool! Got pics? I'd love to see Amram. Never saw him before. Sounds like you had a great time!

We're hoping to do another Cabaradio Show as part of the first Capital Fringe Arts Festival in DC next summer. I still have to get the application in. Once it's accepted, we'll have more info. The festival goes from July 10- 20, 2006 (I'm pretty sure... might be the 15 - 25th... can't remember) and there will be performance arts groups doing multiple shows at various venues throughout that period. Maybe you and Pel could mark your calendar and plan on coming down to be in the show!

I use amazon.com quite often when I'm looking for a specific thing that I cannot find anywhere nearby. Which happens very often.
But I only use it for things that I already know I want.

The internet is great for new stuff, but as yet it hasn't come even close to challenging the outright investments found lurking in second hand book, record and op-shops.
It's also useless for glass objects d' art or mineral specimens; for things like that, you've got to know your shit.

More importantly, it doesn't really help my local economy, nor is it even remotely as much fun as crawling around on the floor wearing holes into my pant's knees digging through dusty crates pulling out lost classics or randomly popping into op-shops to occasionally finding some deceased estate's glassware.

But hey, it is what it is: another resource, and it isn't half bad.