My wife and I made trips to the library nearly once a week and we always came out with a bag full of goodies. I must admit that we got into the habit of taking home our limit of CDs and then ripping them to our hard drive before returning them. More than often this occurred even if we hadn't actually listened to any of the music. To this day I have a stack of CDs that came from those library shelves, including several Andrew Bird albums. Those were the wife's picks yet it still makes me smile when I remember how the nerdy librarian checking her out raved about Bird and his music.
We live in a much smaller town now and the library here is not nearly as magnificent. They have a healthy selection of books, but very few movies and even less music. My music collection is all the worse for it. With high speed Internet my ability to hear new music hasn't really lessened due to the move, but I surely miss looking through the bins and finding something to get the nerdy librarian all giddy.
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1 - El Bicho
"It has been far too long"
Yup.
"It would be just another dusty, back-woods country town built up by the limestone production in the area were it not for Indiana University."
Hey, cutter, tell us about the time you and your friends entered the bike race against the college kids. Ciao.
2 - Mat Brewster
Ha! The first time I saw that movie I had never been in Indiana, much less Bloomington. It was probably a decade later that I moved there and it took me awhile to realize it was filmed in town. I think I watched it once to see if I recognized anything. I mostly didn't.