{"id":166,"date":"2006-11-06T09:10:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T09:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2006\/11\/06\/timing_is_every\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T09:10:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T09:10:35","slug":"timing_is_every","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2006\/11\/06\/timing_is_every\/","title":{"rendered":"Timing is everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waterloo Records holds a store-wide sale twice a year. It&#8217;s been a while since went to the sale as a customer instead of an employee, so I&#8217;d forgotten about a strange phenomenon that occurs when I try to shop at that time, which happened again this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>So far, with little failure, the following things occur when I go the Waterloo Records store-wide sales:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> I don&#8217;t remember the mental list I made to myself weeks back about albums I wanted to get during the sale. (It helps to write it down, huh?)\n<li> If I remember an item on that forgotten list, it will most likely be out of stock.\n<li> The item that&#8217;s out of stock will be something I want more than the other items in that newly-remembered forgotten mental list.\n<li> The albums that <em>are<\/em> in stock are ones I&#8217;m not in the mood to listen to at the moment.\n<li> I will end up walking the aisles for a long time trying to jog my memory about what I wanted.\n<li> As I walk the aisles trying to job my memory, I come to the realization that nothing really grabs me.\n<li> I spend money anyway because it&#8217;s a sale at a record store I like very much.<\/ul>\n<p>This time around, I walked away with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Explosions in the Sky, <em>Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever<\/em><\/strong>. It&#8217;s because I&#8217;m watching <em>Friday Night Lights<\/em> on TV. The shows uses quite a lot of Explosions in the Sky.\n<li> <strong>Envy, <em>Insomniac Doze<\/em><\/strong>. I downloaded this album from eMusic. I think I&#8217;m turning into a post-rock sycophant.\n<li> <strong>Patty Griffin, <em>Living with Ghosts<\/em><\/strong>. Just because I remembered writing about Patty Griffin a few days ago.\n<li> <strong>Ernesto Lecuona, <em>The Ultimate Collection<\/em><\/strong>. I played &quot;Cordoba&quot; from his <em>Andulcia<\/em> suite for a piano recital in my senior year of high school. I&#8217;ve never heard a recording of the song. Man did I play it slow.\n<li> <strong>Now It&#8217;s Overhead, <em>Dark Light Daybreak<\/em><\/strong>. Andrew LeMaster was featured in the Advocate. I wanted to listen to something entirely new, too.<\/ul>\n<p>I actually wanted to get Envy and Explosions in the Sky, so sometimes I do find what I want at the sale.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I couldn&#8217;t find:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Craig Armstrong, <em>Piano Works<\/em><\/strong>. I didn&#8217;t feel like paying full price for this CD, so I waited for a store-wide sale. Oops.\n<li> <strong>Elvis Costello, <em>My Aim is True<\/em><\/strong>. Same excuse. I found it strange, though &#8212; Waterloo is seldom out of stock of Elvis Costello.\n<li> <strong>Steve Reich, <em>Phases<\/em><\/strong>. I wasn&#8217;t going to buy it so much as look at it. But I couldn&#8217;t even do that.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, with little failure, the following things occur when I go the Waterloo Records store-wide sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capital-of-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-2G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}