Normals Books & Records

Jun 14

Freaks! Bunuel! Beatles! Lazlo! Einstein! All In a Tumblr Peepshow

Some treasures for you to gaze upon this weekend. The Blasterthon is only one week away! Next Friday, June 21st, is the kickoff date at the Red Room. Then the next night it will pick up at the 14 Karat Cabaret at 218 W. Saratoga.

The Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Abbey Road Studio Session Notes, 1962-1970 - Mark Lewisohn. Introductory interview with Paul McCartney. Out-of-print Harmony Books hardback, very good + in vg jacket, $30.

The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics - Edited by Alan Aldridge. Fine Black Dog hardback in very good + jacket, $10.

The Beatles: The Biography - Bob Spitz. Very good + first edition hardback in vg+ jacket, $10.

John Lennon, My Brother: A Firsthand Account of the Formative Years by His Sister - Julia Baird. Fine first edition hardback in fine jacket, $8.

SDS: A Profile - Alan Adelson. Out-of-print Scribners paperback, $4.

Peepshows: A Visual History - Richard Balzer. Fine Abrams hardback, $6.

Uncle Joe’s Record Guide: Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, The Who - Joe Benson. Out-of-print paperback, signed by author, $10.

Uncle Joe’s Record Guide: The Rolling Stones- Joe Benson. Out-of-print, signed paperback, $8.

Modern Primitives - Bihalji-Marin. Abrams hardback with 389 plates, 204 in color, $20.

The Godfather Companion - Peter Biskind. Paperback, $5.

Luis Bunuel - Durgnat. Revised paperback, $4.

Luis Bunuel - Ado Kyrou. Out-of-print Simon & Schuster paperback, $4.

World of Bunuel: Essays in Criticism - Edited by Joan Mellen. Paperback, $4.

Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Paul Edwards, editor. Collier-MacMillan 8volume set in four books, hardback, $50.

Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Volume 1 in hardback and paperback, volume 5 in paperback.

Encyclopaedia Britannica. Three volume pleather-bound facsimile of the first 1771 edition, $40.

A Little Batch of Freaks Books

Freaks be we all! Part of the reason we’re Normal’s, besides a group of us being “normals” in a schizophrenic study way back when, is normal and freak are relative.

Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters - Rosamond Purcell. Chronicle Books hardback, $6.

Freaks: Myths & Images of the Secret Self - Leslie Fiedler. Out-of-print paperback, $5.

The History and Lore of Freaks - C.J.S. Thompson. Senate paperback, $4.

Born Different: Amazing Stories of Very Special People - Frederick Drimmer. Nice children’s book to reduce stigmas. $2.

The Revolt of Mother and Other Stories - Mary Wilkins Freeman. Out-of-print Feminist Press paperback, $4.

Michelangelo: On and Off the Sistine Ceiling - Creighton Gilbert. Braziller hardback, $10.

Greek Myths - Robert Graves. 2 volume hardback Folio Press set, $20. Illustrated by Grahame Baker.

Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste And Art - E.H. Gombrich. Phaidon hardback, $15.

We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black At the Movies, 1986-2006 - Esther Iverem. Thunder’s Mouth Press paperback, $5.

Religion Within the Limit of Reason Alone - Kant. Open Court hardback first, $15.

Before I Get Old: The Story of The Who - Dave Marsh. Near fine St. Martin’s Press paperback first, $6.

A Celebration of John F. Nash, Jr. Duke Mathematical Journal hardback, $10.

The Lazlo Letters: The Amazing Real-Life Actual Correspondence of Lazlo Toth - Don Novello. Paperback, $4.

Grace After Midnight - Felicia Snoop Pearson. Fine first edition hardback, $12.

Seize the Time - Bobby Seale. Very good + paperback history of the Black Panther Party. Later printing, $8.

Radiotext(e) - Neil Strauss, editor. With essays by Walter Benjamin, NEgativland, David Simons, Rudolf Arnheim and many others. Out-of-print Semiotext(e) paperback, $6.

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Lessons in Sleight of Hand - Bill Tarr. Out-of-print paperback, $6.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas - Philip Wiener, editor. 5 volume Scribners paperback set, $30.

Wittgenstein, A Memoir - Norman Malcolm. UK Oxford first edition hardback. Very good + in vg+ jacket, $15.

Wittgenstein - A.J. Ayer. Random House first edition hardback, $8.

The Haunted Screen - Lotte Eisner. Out-of-print University of California paperback about the Golden Age of German cinema, $4.

Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception, a story about stage magic - Jim Ottaviani. Paperback, $5.

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Vinyl, Oh Sweet Vinyl. Turn For Me.

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Beatnigs - Self-titled. Near mint in very good + jacket with book. On Alternative Tentacles, $10.

Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy. Very good + RCA press with inner sleeve, in very good jacket, $5.

Culture Shock - Onwards & Upwards. Near mint UK press with insert, $10.

Culture Shock - Go Wild. 1st UK press, very good + in vg+ jacket. With insert, $8.

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. Very good + on Faulty PRoducts, with insert, $15.

Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust. Very good in vg+ jacket, $8.

The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better. Near mint original in very good jacket, $15.

Dirty Vegas - Self-titled. Near mint double album on UK Parlophone, $20.

Dr. Know - This Island Earth. Near mint on metal blade in very good + jacket with insert, $20.

Exclusion: A Compilation with Bands and Articles Against Sexism - near mint with magazine/paper, $20. With The Ex, Atavistic, Culture Shock, Pleasant Valley Children, Pariapunk and more.

Gang of Four - Songs of the Free. Near mint in vg jacket, $6.

Gong - Magick Brother. Near mint on UK Affinity in very good jacket, $20.

Iron Maiden - Live After Death. Near mint double album in very good minus gatefold. To its bonus or detriment, it seems the jacket of this copy perhaps had a close call with bongwater at some point, $8.

Journey. Where it all began. Their first. Open but in shrink. $6.

Maximum Rock ‘N’ Roll Presents They Don’t Paid, They Don’t Get Laid, But Boy Do They Work Hard. Near mint with book, $20.

Millions of Damn Christians - This Blood’s For You. Near mint Radical Press in vg+ gatefold, $15.

The Selecter - Too Much Pressure. Near mint in very good + jacket, $6.

Smack My Crack. Giorno Poetry Systems compilation with William Burroughs, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Diamanda Galas, Einsterzende Neubauten and more! Near mint in very good + gatefold, $20.

This Inheritance Must Be Refused - a collection of written, graphic and audible material on sexual politics and gender issues. With The Ex, Citizen Fish, Spitboy, Dogfight and more. With inserts, $15.

Victims Family - White Bread Blues. Near mint in vg+ jacket with insert. On Mordam, $10.

Yes - Close to the Edge. NEar mint Japanese pressing in nm gatefold. With OBI strip and insert, $15.

(Yes, Yes, please smack my crack!)

Jun 12

Dog Faced Hermans, The Ex, Flux of Pink Indians and An Exciting Evening with Beastie Boys!

Lots of new punk and 20th century classical in on vinyl. Plus large amounts of philosophy and film books. Here is a peek at some of the new vinyl.

The Accused - More Fun Than An Open Casket Funeral. Near mint Combat press in original inner sleeve, $15.

Samuel Baron - Music for Flute and Tape. Karl Korte - Remembrances/Mario DAvidovsky - Synchronisms No. 1/Meyer Kupferman - Superflute.

Beastie Boys - An Exciting Evening at Home with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Capitol very good + 12” in near mint jacket, $12.

Black Flag - The Process of Weeding Out. Very good + in very good + jacket, $10.

David Bowie - Bowie Now. Near mint white label promo in very good jacket, $35.

The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn. Near mint 180gram Sundazed reissue in nm gatefold, $8.

Capitol Punishment - Super Glutton. First press on white vinyl, $25.

Elliott Carter - Night Fantasies. Played by Paul Jacobs on Nonesuch, $5.

Cornelius Cardew - Treatise. Performed by ORen Ambarchi and Keith Rowe. Near mint on CCCPLANAM, $20.

Concrete Sox - Whoops, Sorry Vicar! Near mint with insert in near mint jacket, $20.

Conflict - It’s Time to See Who’s Who. Near mint UK press in near mint gatefold, $20.

Conflict - Increase the PRessure. Very good + UK press in very good + gatefold with original inner sleeve. $12.

Disorder - The Singles Collection. Near mint French original in very good jacket, $15.

Dr. Know - self-titled. Mystic Records, excellent, in very good + jacket. Doesn’t have 7”, $12.

Dog Faced Hermans - Hum of Life. Near mint original UK pressing in very good + jacket, $20.

The Ex - Dead Fish Original 10” import, $20.

Feedtime - Shovel. Near mint on Aberrant Records, with insert, $12.

Flux of Pink Indians - Taking a Liberty. Very good + UK original in near mint jacket, $20.

Gone II - But Never Too Gone. Near mint SST original in vg+ jacket, $10.

The Last Poets - self-titled. Near mint on Celluloid, $15.

Gyorgy Ligeti - Streichquartett/Earle Brown - String Quartet/Wolf Rosenberg - Streichquartett. Near mint on Deutsche Grammophon, $15.

Gerry Mulligan - Presents a Concert In Jazz. Near mint Japanese Verve press with OBI strip, $20.

Rorschach - Protestant. Near mint in vg+ jacket on Wardance.

Rudimentary Peni - Extended Plays. Near mint on Corpus Christi, with insert. Jacket is vg+, $35.

The Music of Erik Satie Through the Looking Glass - The Camarata Contemporary Chamber ORchestra. Near mint on London/Deram in very good + shimmering silver jacket, $8.

Spectrum: New American Music, Volume V: Milton Babbitt - All Set, for Jazz Ensemble/T.J. Anderson - Variations on a Theme by M.B. Tolson/Richard Wernick - Kaddish Requiem. Near mint on Nonesuch in vg+ jacket, $8.

Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads. Near mint double album spanning decades of Heads. $20.

Toxic Reasons - Kill By Remote Control. Near mint Sixth International pressing in vg jacket, $15.

You Can’t Argue With Sucksess. Vg+ Mystic Records rare original in vg sleeve, $25.

Beastie Boys’ “An Exciting Eveni Last Poets on Celluloid, “The Name of This Band is Talking Heads”, Rudimentary Peni’s “Extended Plays’, “Bowie Now” promo, The Ex/Alerta’s “The Red Dance Package”, Conflict’s “It’s Time to See Who’s Who (UK), Gone II, The Accused’s “More Fun Than an OPen Casket” and “The A.L.F. (and Obama and Bush while making a grotesque painting and Cheney while eating baby brains and every punkass twenty year old working at the NSA) Is Watching and There’s No Place to Hide”. And more, including a new batch of modern classical.

Jun 8

Homeboy Brainiac Charles Sanders Peirce, Leather Bound Goodies andMusic From Saharan Cellphones

(Charles Sanders Peirce, of Hopkins University)

The star of this week’s program is philosophy and physicist Charles Sanders Peirce who taught at Johns Hopkins University. We had a wonderful buy and meeting with a retired physicist who bequeathed some treasures to us and he named this man the greatest thinker. My dreary week was lightened by this elderly man’s story - a nice radical physicist who studied music and played piano - who had a stroke two years ago which took away his ability to play piano. He then bought a guitar and is teaching himself guitar.

Here’s some skinny on Peirce:

Charles Sanders Peirce (/ˈpɜrs/,^[9] like “purse”, September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, sometimes known as “the father of pragmatism”. He was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism.

In 1879, Peirce was appointed Lecturer in logic at the new Johns Hopkins University, which was strong in a number of areas that interested him, such as philosophy (Royce and Dewey did their PhDs at Hopkins), psychology (taught by G. Stanley Hall and studied by Joseph Jastrow, who coauthored a landmark empirical study with Peirce), and mathematics (taught by J. J. Sylvester, who came to admire Peirce’s work on mathematics and logic). 1883 saw publication of his Studies in Logic by Members of the Johns Hopkins University containing works by himself and Allan Marquand, Christine Ladd, Benjamin Ives Gilman, and Oscar Howard Mitchell. They were among his graduate students.^[31] This nontenured position proved to be the only academic appointment Peirce ever held.

Of course, I must confess that pragmatism is my kryptonite!

And here is our cultural headsup!! The Blasterthon paying homage to the amazing dark visionary humorist writer and artist (and former Normal’s employee) is coming up at various locations on June 21, 22, 28 and 29 and will feature local fans of Blaster and some of his farther away friends.

It being summer we’re getting tons of great new stuff in across all sections - vinyl, cds, books. Here is a small Whitman’s Sampler to hopefully get you salivating and onto your kicks and in here!

(Alenka Sottler)

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad. Full leather bound Easton Press edition from their series the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Illustrated by Robert Shore. Full gilt textblocks, $20.

Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams - Linda Dahl. Fine University of California paperback, $7.

Origin of the Species - Darwin. 1978 Franklin Library lime green full leather bound edition. Full gilt textblock, $30. Illustrated by Walter Rane.

Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky. Leather bound Franklin Library edition with full gilt and ribbon. The kind of book you build a room around. $35.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle. Leather bound Easton Press edition, 1981, Greatest Books edition. With beautiful embossed gilt magnifying glass designs on front and back. $40.

There Is Power In a Union: The Epic Story of Labor In America - Philip Dray. Fine hardback in fine jacket on Doubleday Press, $10.

The Condition of the Working Class In England - Engels. Fine Oxford paperback, $6.

Faust - Goethe. Parts one and two in full leather, as new. Franklin Library edition with full gilt textblocks. Illustrated by Mark Bellerose. Translated by George Madison Priest, $25.

Great Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. 1982 full leather bound Franklin LIbrary edition in full gilt textblock, $15.

On The Sensations of Tone - Hermann Helmholtz. Dover paperback, $6. On the Sensations of Tone is one of the world’s greatest scientific classics. It bridges the gap between the natural sciences and music theory and nearly a century after its first publication, it is still a standard text for the study of physiological acoustics - the scientific basis of musical theory”.

The Harpsichord Owner’s Guide: A Manual for Buyers & Owners - Edward Kottick. Near fine Chapel Hill paperback, $15.

Kant: A Biography -Manfred Kuehn. Fine Cambridge hardback in fine jacket, $40.

Five Days In London, May 1940 - John Lukacs. As new Folio hardback in slipcase, $20.

Moby Dick - Melville. Full leather bound Easton Press edition with full gilt and ribbon. Illustrated by Boardman Robinson, $30.

Encyclopedia of the Piano - Edited by Robert Palmieri. Out-of-print Garland Press paperback quarto, $25.

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Vol. VII and Vol. VIII together: Science and Philosophy, Reviews, Correspondence and Bibliography. Very good + out of print 1979 Harvard hardback, $40.

Charles Sanders Peirce, A Life - Joseph Brent. Fine University of Indiana hardback, $12.

The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings Volume 1 and 2. Edited by the Peirce Edition Project. Very good + paperbacks, vol. 2 is out-of-print. $35.

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley. As new Folio hardback edition in slipcase. Illustrated by Harry Brockway, $30.

Plato V: Republic I, translated by Paul Shorey. 1982 Loeb Classic hardback, $10.

Plato VI: Republic II, translated by Shorey. Loeb Classic, $10.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot. As new hardback, $8.

The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art - Michael Sullivan. 1989 University of California hardback quarto, $15.

The Aeneid - Virgil. 1982 full leather bound Franklin Library edition. Full gilt textblocks. Illustrations by Johann Gruninger, $15.

Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Text to Context - Edited by Peter Verdonk. Out-of-print Routledge paperback, $10.

Latin Lessons: How South America Stopped Listening to the United States and Started Prospering - Hal Weitzman. As new Wiley hardback, $8.

The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding - Robert Zaretsky and John Scott. Fine Yale hardback, $8.

VINYL

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Phase One. Near mint 1973 Prestige pressing, $20.

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Bap-tizm. Very good + in very good jacket on Atlantic, $15.

John Cage - “Etudes Australes for Piano”. Near mint Tomato double lp, $25.

John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama. Near mint original Impulse stereo with Van Gelder stamp in deadwax. $20.

John Coltrane - Expression. Near mint original stereo Impulse in gatefold with Van Gelder stamp, $20.

Coltrane & Ellington. Later Impulse pressing. Near mint in very good gatefold, $10.

Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where the Time Goes? Near mint 4LP set on Hannibal. In very good + box with book, $25.

Bill Evans - California Here I Come. Near mint double Verve lp in near mint gatefold, $12.

Bill Evans - Master Pianist. Near mint triple lp on Book-of-the-Month Records in very good + box, $15.

Philip Glass - Mishima. Near mint in vg+ jacket, $8.

Glenn Gould - Bach, Vol. 3, The English Suites. Near mint in near mint box with booklet, $20.

Ben Patterson - A Fluxux Elegy. Near mint, $20.

Terry Reid - River. Near mint in very good minus gatefold. 1973 Atlantic original, $12.

Music From Saharan Cellphones, vol. 2. Near mint on sahelsounds. Surely the most unusual title and concept this week. $10.

Satie - Piano Music played by Daniel Varsano. Near mint, $8.

Jean Sibelius - Symphonie Nr. 3 En Saga. Near mint on Deutsche Grammophon. With the Radio Sinfonie Orchester Helsinki, $8.

AND THESE LPS! Luciano Berio’s “Coro” on Deutsche Grammophon, “Give ‘Em Enough Rope”, “Friend Opportunity” by Deerhoof, Digable Planet’s “Beyond the Spectrum”, Bad Brains’ “Quickness”, Of MOntreal’s “Satanic Panic In the Attic (red vinyl) a really minty original mono copy of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with og inner sleeve and insert, a 1995 repress of “The White Album with all the fixings and last but not least, Sir Tiny Tim’s “For All My Little Friends” (though he be terrified of children).

CDs

AMM - At The Roundhouse

Bartok - Miraculous Mandarin (Philips)

Han Bennink & Dave Douglas - Serpentine

Alban Berg - Wozzeck on Deutsche Grammophon

Hamiet Bluiett - Clarinet Family

Gary US Bonds - Take Me Back to New Orleans

Sandy Bull - Re-Inventions

The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 4 on Bridge

Elliott Carter - Concerto for Orchestra on Virgin

Steve Coleman - Functional Arrhythmias

Comedian Harmonists

Ellery Eskelin - One Great Night Live. This Towson born and raised homeboy is one of the giants of modern jazz! His dad was the legendary singer/songwriter Rodd Keith, of the “send us your lyrics and we’ll put them to music” fame.

Fabulous Wailers - Coldren Crest Original Masters

Funkadelic - America Eats Its Young. $8.

Andrew Hill - Compulsion

The Ikettes - Can’t Sit Down

Jandek - Blue Corpse

Don Julian and the Meadowlarks - Heaven & Paradise

Gyorgy Ligeti - Clear Or Cloudy. Complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon.

Joe Lovano - Rush Hour

Moby Grape - Listen My Friends

Joe Morris - Singularity

Nurse With Wound - Huffin’ Rag Blues

Charlie Parker and Diz - Bird and Diz. Gatefold cd “Master Edition”, $10.

The Penguins - Earth Angel

Edith Piaf - Mon Legionnaire. $5.

Polwechsel & John Tilbury - Field

Taraf de Haidouks - self-titled. Sure to fire up a party!

McCoy Tyner - Expansions

Wattstax. As new Japanese lp style

prepaidafrica:

This is David, he’s an apprentice at the local furniture workshop. But since he was a young boy he has dreamed of building toy cars, trucks and other vehicles. Now, he scrounges around for scrap materials and builds these beautiful scale model toys in his spare time. He is seen here holding a very detailed combine harvester that we brought back with us to the Netherlands and gifted it to the Agriculture section of the Ministry of Economy. They say its a symbol of food security :)

Photo taken by Niti Bhan in Karantina, Kenya on 15th April 2013

Jun 7

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Glen Baxter

(via alisong)

May 31

Sparkling Sounds of The Avant-Garde On CD, Plus Some New Vinyl

Comrades, this malodorous stultifying heat cannot lock our brains up forever! We must struggle on devouring cultures and sharpening our cerebrums to a tiny point. We just got a tasty batch of modern classical music in on cds, plus some new vinyl. See them below, desire them and come on over and buy them.

Pierre Boulez - Complete Webern. Deutsche Grammophon 6 CD set with book, $36.00.

Harold Budd/Ruben Garcia/Daniel Lentz - Music for 3 Pianos. Out-of-print, $12.

Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music, 1992 - 2008. Sub Rosa 4 disc set, $20.

Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Volume #6. Sub Rosa double cd, $10.

Elliott Carter - Concerto for Orchestra/Violin Concerto/Three Occasions. Out-of-print on Virgin UK. With Oliver Knussen, $8.

Crazy Jane - Crazy Jane does Crumb, Lansky, Leisner, Musto, Naito and Roxbury, $6.

Evelyn Glennie - Drumming. On Catalyst, $8. With Philip Smith on piano.

Giya Kancheli - Caris Mere. From the ECM New Series, $6.

Paul Lansky - Imaginary Islands. With the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and Justin Brown Conducting. On Bridge, $8.

Gyorgy Ligeti - Clear or Cloudy. Complete Recordings for Deutsche Grammophon. 4 CD set, $15.

Lutoslawski - Piano Concerto. With Chain 3 and Novelette. Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lutoslawski. On Deutsche Grammophon, $6.

Ursula Oppens - Oppens Plays Carter. On Cedille, $8.

Thierry Pecou - L’Oiseau Innumerable. With Ensemble Orchestral De Paris. Harmonia Mundi digipack, $10.

Penderecki - Symphony No. 7/Seven Gates of Jerusalem. With the Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Antoni Wit. Naxos, $6.

Shostakovich: Piano Music, Chamber Works. Ashkenazy. Decca 5 CD set, $20.

Shostakovich - Symphonies No. 2/October/No. 15. Czech-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Ladislav Slovak conducting. On Naxos, $5.

Shostakovich - Symphony No. 4 in C Minor. With the Czech-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ladislav Slovak. On Naxos, $5.

Hans-Kristian Kjos Sorensen - Open Percussion. Performing the works of Xenakis, Cage, Hedstrom, Sonatoni, Wallin and Sorensen. Bis import, $10.

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Plus These New Vinyl Acquisitions:

Anne - Dream Punx. Near mint, on clear vinyl, $15.

Ashra - Blackouts. Near mint 1978 Virgin Benelux pressing in near mint jacket, $20.

Ayers, Cale, Eno & Nico - June 1, 1974. Very good + in very good jacket, $12.

The Band - Big Pink. Very good + 1968 press in very good gatefold, $12.

Blues Image - self-titled. Very good ++ on Atco in very good + jacket, $10.

David Bowie - Low. Near mint US original with lyric inner, $15.

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust. Near mint in very good jacket. With lyric inner, $8.

Brownsville Station - Motor City Connection. Near mint on Big Tree, $6.

Catacombz. Near mint with insert, $8.

Doors - Best of. Near mint Quadra Disc version, $8.

Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House. Near mint in very good + gatefold, $8.

The Goldebriars. Near mint mono press on Epic, $15.

Woody Guthrie - Struggle. Near mint 1990 Folkways reissue, $8.

Herbie Hancock - Man-Child. Very good + on Columbia. Open, but still in shrink, $6.

Jon Hassell - Dream Theory in Malaya. Near mint promo in very good + jacket with top right cut-out corner, $20.

Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra. Near mint original Verve stereo in near mint jacket, $15.

The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions. Near mint Chess stereo original in very good + gatefold, $15.

Howlin’ Wolf - All Night Boogie. Near mint Cleo import in very good jacket that has ringwear/scuffing to covers, $10.

Khate - Pareidolia. $12.

Kinks - Preservation Act 1. Very good + on RCA, $6.

Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn. Near mint original Mercury stereo pressing, in near mint jacket,

The Mar-Keys - The Great Memphis Sound. Near mint mono Stax original!!! In very good + psych-swirly orange-yellow jacket, $20.

Bob Marley - Chances Are. Near mint on Cotillion, $6.

Bob Marley - Natty Dread. Near mint on US Island in vg jacket, $8.

Harry Partch - Petals. With Gate 5 Ensemble. Near mint on CRI, stereo, in very good + jacket, $20.

Mingus - Mingus Ah Um. My fave Mingus. ’70s reissue, $8.

Moby Grape - self-titled. Near mint recent reissue, $6.

Patrick Moraz - Future Memories. Near mint, $10.

Wilson Pickett - I’m In Love. Near mint Atlantic stereo original in nm jacket, $10.

Otis Redding - Otis Blue. Near mint Volt stereo original in near mint jacket. Has a sticker stating “This LP Contains Satisfaction” on the front, $15.

Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do. Near mint on Dutch Cleo label. In near mint jacket, $15.

Lou Reed - Take No Prisoners. Near mint double album in very good + gatefold that has cut-out notch at bottom right, $10.

Lou Reed - Transformer. Near mint RCA original in vg+ jacket, $10.

Pete Seeger - Dangerous Songs!? Near mint 360 Sound, $6.

Wayne Shorter - Adam’s Apple. Near mint 180 gram Blue Note reissue, $10.

Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods. Near mint in near mint gatefold, $15.

Peter Tosh - Bush Doctor. Near mint promo, $10.

Tyvek - Blunt Instrumental EP. $10.

U.F.O. - 1. Near mint German Decca press in vg jacket, $35.

Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs. Very good + in vg jacket, $10.

Muddy Waters & Howlin’ Wolf - London Revisited. Near mint Chess original in vg+ gatefold, $20.

Link Wray - self-titled. Link’s ’70s Polydor lp, near mint in vg+ mini-gatefold, $20.

ZZ Top - Tres Hombres. Very good + 180gram 2006 reissue in vg+ gatefold with insert, $15.

May 26

Memorial Weekend Sale Sunday and Monday

Stock up some new platters for your cookout or new reads for your picnic/ beach trip at our Memorial Weekend sale at Normal’s this Sunday and Monday. 20% off all used books, records, cds and dvds.

Soon enough we’ll all be swimming in our own sweat marinade, but for now the weather fates are smiling.

May 1

girlatlas:

I want to go to there

(via sweatnap)

Old Songs Play The Enoch Pratt’s Poe Room

(Chris Mason and Liz Downing sinking into the resonant gravitas of the moment)

Baltimore’s Old Songs translate ancient Greek lyric poetry and put it to mesmerizing folk music. I’ve been a fan of them since their origins back in the beginning of the 21st century, but their show last Wesnesday in The Poe Room, surrounded by beautiful tomes and many paintings and photos of Poe in all his Chivas Regal glory, was the most sublime I’ve heard yet. Honey on my crumbling ears.

(Liz Downing and Mark Jickling)

The room was full of many literary eminence grise, including Sir Chris “Batworth” Ciaetti above.

There was even this old gentle Quaker man and vocalist Selena. Behind them you can spot longtime social activist and positive spirit Ann Gordon.