Championship

I've been reading a lot of graphic novels lately, and they often don't really have a punch line at the end of a little story. So in that same style this post has no real point. Cheers.


When I worked at a local record store as a second job, ostensibly to save money for a house and child. (but in truth I was desperately clinging to my youth)

We had a customer request sheet, that the buyers would use to place orders. Mostly we would write down things we had sold out of (this was a decidedly low tech store, no computer, no system, no inventories or anything of the sort)

Each Saturday as a goof I would write down some obscure act as if a customer had come in the store looking for it. Walker Brothers, Sam the Sham and the pharos, Question mark and the mysterians etc.

Well eventually I settled on Serge Gainsbourg.

'customer requests'
Brani
No Doubt
Spin Doctors
Serge Gainsbourg
Sting

I really wanted to buy some Serge records, I had read about some new r-issues that were due out. So every Saturday I wrote it down again and again.

Finally three re-issued collections came in, and bought them all.

So this morning when 'cha cha cha de loup' came on the Ipod shuffle I felt satisfied, in a dorky sort of way.