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Mrs. Malone's Money Saving Holiday Tips

Mrs. Malone was recently asked by Real Simple Magazine to help them compile some money saving tips from their readers. Click on the article below to read how you can make your holiday budget work for you:

My Feet are Cold

Have you seen my socks? I can't seem to find them anywhere. Let's see...where did I have them last? I went to Not So Silent Night on Friday. I had them on for the Shins, I know that. Hmm...I had them on before The Raconeurs took the stage and then...that's it!

The Raconteurs knocked...nay, ROCKED, my f-cking socks off!!

Seriously kids, if you jump in your time machine and see only one live band in 2006, make it The Raconteurs. The studio album is good. I give it a B+. But live? Man - they are a f-cking rock and roll machine. I'm still picking my jaw up off the ground. Possibly the best 40 minutes of live music I've ever heard. They blew away The Shins, Modest Mouse, and The Killers on Friday. (Killers = snore fest, Modest Mouse = horrible live mix fest, The Shins = good, but not as good as The Raconteurs fest).

Here's a little video. Check 'em for yourself. Bang, Bang.

R.I.P. Tower Records

Tower Records/Tower Books is closing next week. I've been going to Tower ever since I had an allowance. I discovered Choose Your Own Adventure books there. I discovered National Lampoon Magazine there. I discovered The Pixies there. And Peter Gabriel. The Police. Nirvana. Tori Amos. Weezer.

I took my first girlfriend there on a date. I commiserated with my friends there when I couldn't get a date (many, many times). In my High School/College years, Tower was where we went when we had no place else to go on a Saturday night. Even when we did have some place to go, we usually ended up there afterwords anyway.

I felt proud when my band's album was put onto the shelves (on consignment) right next to Concrete Blonde. Sure we never saw any money from it, but how cool was that? To be next to all my rock and roll heroes in my favorite store in the world.

As of next week (possibly sooner), that store will be gone forever. Something about being crushed by The Internet. yay progress. woohoo technology.

I guess it had to happen. How can a brick and mortar compete with Amazon.com for all those lazy customers?

I'm gonna miss just browsing. I'm going to miss the listening stations. I'm going to miss the magazine section in the book store.

I have more love for that building than I do any home I've ever lived in. Watching it being slowly torn apart over the last few weeks has been sad.

Music has always been my drug of choice and my favorite dealer just got busted.

Quick Order of Biz-ness

Josh is back! Yay!