ENTHUSIASM FOR LIFE DEFEATS EXISTENTIAL FEAR

I don’t expect I’ll ever set foot in another Tower Records again.

One of our four local branches is now shuttered, and the other three are soon to follow.

Of all the items that I picked up there over the last month or so, this is probably my favorite:





It’s a CD single of The Flaming Lips' Waitin’ for a Superman b/w two tracks from Zaireeka-- a neat little gimcrack-tasctical thing that cost me 50 cents. I'll probably never even play it.

I almost can’t explain why I like it so much.

I almost can’t explain why it almost brings me to tears...