More Mary

Dinner at Spanish village with Vaughn, Cathy, Hallmark, Graves, and Callie capped off a fairly productive day (which would have been more productive had it started earlier).

A few more thoughts on Mary Cutrufello last night (because after listening to the bootleg minidisc today as I was engineering the CD of the show, I'm obsessed): 1) she has intense eyes, and she made really strong eye contact with the handful of us in the crowd who really got into her performance, 2) at the same time, she seems a little bit shy, in an "awe shucks" kind of way, 3) she STILL shouldn't be opening for a low-caliber band such as that -- but she'd be a cool opener for an Ely show, 4) This bootleg is great, because she was doing solo versions of stuff for the album she's in the process of writing -- almost like a demo tape, 5) Yale grads write some pretty smart music!

And always count on the local overrated music store when you want to keep a streak alive: every time I go to Cactus Records on Shepherd/Alabama in search of a local artist that they (with their reputation) SHOULD have, they don't, so of course I didn't expect them to have Mary's debut album, and they didn't.  Could this be one reason so many local book and music stores have gone out of business, because it is far easier to order something you might otherwise buy locally from Amazon when the local stores consistently DON'T have the niche items that ought to keep them in business? 

Nah, probably not... it would probably be much more "fair" for states to slap an "internet" tax on e-commerce and remedy the problem that way, instead of local shops actually knowing their local customers well enough to offer them services and selection that the e-commerce giants have no way of matching.   After all, it's not THEIR fault they're incompetent; it's Amazon's (or Microsoft's, or the villain of the day). Blar.

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