| So yesterday, right, the webmonster and I are out shopping for furniture, and we end up buying these two humongous bookcases, which means among other things that a whole bunch of CDs are going to have to be temporarily displaced while we’re moving stuff around the house. And so it happens that I unearth the MX-80 album called Big Hits/Hard Attack, which I got in Chicago around September or October of 1995 and which, upon seeing its cover, I clearly remembered having listened to on a day when I was in kind of an irritable mood, which is something you can’t be doing with music that has saxophones in it. Miraculously, or maybe not, the CD had come with me from Chicago to Grinnell, made it through three different Grinnell houses, taken the trip up to Colo where it had languished in a closet for two years, and finally got to Ames, where, after a couple of years in undeserved dormancy, it found itself thrown into the changer last night. |