LA Cardinal Roger Mahoney isn't a serous consideration for Pope, I hope. I find him a truly bad man...The way he protected pedaphile priests for years and stonewalled investigations into the matter was awful. And then he also built this monstrous edifice of a cathederal to his own vanity downtown...and basically ruined inexpensive, easy parking for the music center.
I basically spent a wasted day...other than the fact that I was tooling around in our new little red car listening to Vic Damone and BK's Sondheim At The Movies album, with orchestrations by our very own elmore.
I went to Canterbury Records, thinking that they would surely have the Jimmy Rodgers album with Long Hot Summer and several of his other better known hits on it (I think Rhino puts it out). They did not. But I could also not find one CD that I just felt compelled to buy. Part of it is I guess the thrill of the hunt is gone and I'm just jaded, but it also seemed to me that even this venerable site is not what it once used to be (By the by, they lump their original cast albums with their Broadway soundtracks too). And after a while, my eyes just glaze, poring over titles. I tried a few bookstores too...but the same thing. I can't look they way I used to...and the stock seems to rarely change in these places, so that there are so few surprises anymore. One place at a lovely collection of old hardback Mermaid editions of Elizabethan & Jacobean playwrights other than shakespeare..Ben Jonson, Phillip Massinger and the like, but they were all $15 to $25 a volume and I didn't bite. Cliff's Books at lots of interesting fifties and sixties paperbacks... particularly swashbucklers and historical...but I can't wade through unalphabetized stuff anymore.
I ended up only picking up a couple of W.R. Burnett western paperbacks.
I guess I'm getting old...
