Two Hours in Times Square's Virgin Megastore

Here is my short summary, as I am sure Kill will have a post with pix about the Erasure signing at Virgin yesterday. We arrived early to find no one, so we quoted some Spinal Tap and wasted time looking at music. I become a VIP member and purchase:
Musical World: Andes
Manu Chao - ...proxima estacion...Esperanza
and when I go upstairs I find
Tim Armstrong - A Poet's Life
and buy that too, that's when I spy some wristbands. So I ask someone and there's already a line outside! We wait with hardcore Erasurites (if that's not their moniker, it should be!) and then I am told I can't be on the line because I have no wristband (stupid policy, but we only make sad faces) and everyone is hustled downstairs. Vince and Andy arrive soon after (earlier than 6)! I take many pix. Kill is about 14th on line, so she gets there quick, snap snap, and tada we are done at 6:04.

The short samples I heard of Tim's solo CD are AWESOME! Too bad I am backlogged with my CD listening, as I still have Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris soundtrack to get to (which is a great off-broadway musical by the way).

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Here are two Manu Chao anecdotes: The first song I heard of him was "Dia Luna, Dia Pena" on one of Lena's awesome mixtapes. Simple song, simple lyrics, but omg, what lyrics! "Hoy me levanto sin razon, hoy me levanto y no quiero" = "Today I awake without reason, today I awake and I don't want to" all in this soft sleepy voice, belying a deeper dissatisfaction.

Funnily enough when I went to buy Mika tickets, some people in front of me thought they were only selling tickets for his show (and got huffy when asked what tickets they were purchasing) but the only other two non-white people in the line ahead of me were buying Manu Chao tickets. HA!

Okay, a third. I cut out articles. I have one somewhere of Manu Chao from some magazine. Without even owning any other song but that one til yesterday. I think it's my brain's way of knowing the future somehow. Like when I was saving all those Rufus Wainwright articles before my sis was really into him and I was all ORLY? and handed her a few articles, among then the one with the infamous Bea Arthur quote "I'm not your fucking grandmother!" Ahh, good going, brain :)

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I am sure there's a reason I named the last post Mambo! but I forget.

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