My mood is:
In other news, Built to Spill has a new album out. It’s supposed to be a return to form and blah blah blah and all that rot. I guess I’ll have to buy it off iTunes and see for myself.
The other day I was in Virgin Megastore looking to see if they had the new Morrissey record (out of curiosity, as I had already bought it from iTunes) and I stumbled across their massive Genesis section. I had no idea Genesis had so many records, but I guess they do. Virgin must have had them all. No wonder it was such a big deal when Phil Collins came here this summer.
I was looking for a great quote Shane MacGowan had about songwriting….something like, “All these songs are just floating around in the air. All you have to do is reach out and grab them. And you’d better, because if you don’t, Phil Collins will.” However, the only Phil-related quote by Shane I could find was this:
I suppose Phil Collins offers ‘something for everybody’ and in hipdom that’s not cool. But in the real world there’s no shame in that at all.
I didn’t try very hard.
By the way, Virgin Megastore had no Morrissey records whatsoever.