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Updated: May 28, 1999
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Music sites I visit frequently: 
CD now (particularly after finding a coupon here; if you don't want to buy anything, it's still a good site for checking out track listings...) 

Second Spin (used store with good search engine and service) 

Dusty Groove ('hip' store, with hard to find stuff and enthusiastic descriptions) 

Internet Movie Database - search for soundtrack info:  
  
Film title  Person/composer

Ebay online auction listings for CDs and records (don't get carried away; try downloading some unusual, free images instead)  

Gemm (search site bringing together thousands of dealers; a great way to find out how much things are valued about or whether they are available) 

Musicfile (slightly slicker looking site which is an imitation of Gemm, but with an inferior search engine) 

All Music Guide (occasionally frustrating but ultimately quite useful attempt to catalogue and critique everything) 

Space Age Pop standards (great site, often providing the only information available on the internet about certain unsung performers) 
 
I've always been a fanatical tape compiler. Recently I hit upon the idea of making compilations in the style of soundtracks for imaginary films. Here are some of the results of that:

- Saliva Bubble
A tribute to the films of David Lynch. The soundtracks to films like Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Fire Walk With Me had a profound effect on me. This is my attempt to invent another epic score from my own record collection. It's named 'saliva bubble' because there is an unproduced Lynch filmscript with a similar title. But I really just used that as a launchpad. This story, as I imagined it, was some kind of warped tale about a guy obsessed with cannibalism. Nice, huh...

- Naomi Sagara goes to Rio...twice
I did this for my friend Mark. The conceit here isn't all that innovative - Mark had just been in Japan, and I was (and still am) very into Brazilian music. Naomi Sagara is someone whose record I found in a second hand store in Amsterdam ('Naomi Sagara sings the Carpenters songbook', a Japanese pressing on JVC records). I rather like the record and the short biography on the back, and since I couldn't find any trace of Naomi on the internet, I decided to make up a life for her. This involves going to Brazil to see her lover or something. Alright, as you are probably figuring, I'm not so great on the story bit for these film ideas. I'm really more of a music man, but making up some silly story idea does help give me the restrictions I need to make a coherent tape.