sink or swim

On a rainy Monday I decided to venture out of the Apartment and go buy some music, the music store I remembered was in Du Pont which was one Metro Station away. Du Pont is a cool little alcove in the DC landscape and finding that music store there five years later would prove testament to that sentiment.

Five years ago, I spent 15 minutes in there and $100. Something about independent music stores, they have all the romance that is High Fidelity, and it doesn’t matter where I am in the world I am comfortable in a record store and now later in life bottle stores are sacred ground for me as well.

Five years later I’m lost, the rain is heavy and I’m hoping that it hasn’t been swallowed up by the recession but after going around the circle, Du Pont is a circle or sorts, I find it, it was opposite to where I started a cross the road. I always get there, I tell my wet self, I may be a slow burner but I generally always get there and thankfully I found it otherwise it may have been a pathetic Starbucks moment waiting for the weather to clear and humbly plotting a plan-B.

I spent considerably more time browsing this time but I didn’t want to exceed my $100 budget which proved a challenge because after 15 minutes, I had eight discs.

One of them was Bad Lieutenant, which I mistakenly pronounce, left-tenant on purchasing, the sticker said the band contained members of the original Joy Division and New Order and I’m puzzled didn’t Joy Division become New Order, anyway this is a side project of Bernard Summer, there is no ‘Hooky’ on it.

And it’s ok, a nice little 6.75 out of 10 or three martini glasses and an olive out of five with three olives.

Today it’s in the player and Sink or Swim has just got me as these things tend to when you are at work with the headphones on.