Let me tell you about all the stuff I got at the thrift store today.

I originally went so I could find the cheapest, weirdest birthday present I could... but then I found a lot of stuff.

Oh, before I go any further, let me just say that I am sometimes awesome. I decided to go to this one thrift store... without any particular clue how to get there. I mean, I'd been there before, but I always took a route that was essentially in the exact opposite direction that I was in... and I knew how to get there not by street names, but rather by stores and whatnot. Yet who pretty much took the most direct perfect route there imaginable using only my spidey sense? That would be me.

Anyway, I got there... and I immediately spotted PET SOUNDS BY THE BEACH BOYS. Except that it was just the album cover. And the album inside was instead All Summer Long. Which is still a classic... but in terms of classics, Pet Sounds is Hamlet and All Summer Long is one of Shakespeare's not-so-famous plays. I still got it.

Also discovered, The Beach Boys' Wild Honey (which was one of their first post-Smile fiasco releases) and The Beatles' Something New. None of these were in particularly great shape, mind you... all the covers seemed as if they've been doused in water, and the records themselves seem to be scratched up beyond belief. But still. I got them. I don't really listen to any of these anyway... it's just nice to know that I have them. And they were all for around a buck.

I went over to their three buck album section... hoping that there would be a copy of All Summer Long with the Pet Sounds record sitting inside it. But it was not meant to be. But instead... I found an even worse for wear copy of Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde, and a pretty in tact copy of The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown. Which I'm listening to right now... and it's really good. It's really drugged-up, but soulful as well. This is the song I'm listening.



Oh, and a 45 of White Room by Cream.

Then I went to a couple other stores, and I found a Lucky Charms bobblehead. Which means that I now have a breakfast cereal section in my bobblehead collection. I had Count Chocula as one of the first I ever got, and then I got this one named Fruit Brute (I don't know who he is either... but he's holding a bowl of cereal, so...). In terms of other subsections in my collection, it's not as weirdly specific as my Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, N Sync and Goldy Gopher sections... but it'll do.

Then I found a White Bear Lake polar bear bobblehead. Which I thought was cool... if only for the fact that I've been to White Bear Lake, and I know how hardcore they take their polar bear lawn ornaments (and I'll go ahead and assume that everyone there has a huge collection of polar bear crap.) So now I'm prepared if I ever move there.