#m+t

“shane hollander? sorry, i don’t know the names of all assistant coaches.”

“shane hollander? the zamboni driver for montreal? does good job, sure, but i have seen smoother ice.”

“shane hollander? who is that? does he sell popcorn during the games so that he can at least watch from afar?”

“shane hollander? you mean the guy who has coffee cart outside the arena because selling iced drinks is the closest he will get to hockey?”

“shane hollander? of course i remember him. he is park guide now, did you know? yes that is the closest he will get to sticks.”

(to the journalist) “shane hollander? is that the name of your son? does he want my autograph?”

Current Membership: Lapis Lazuli, Aaravos, the Collector, M.T./Lake

Page from my personal journal: a review of Soho record store M + T, from my trip to London, August 1995.

Here’s another London record store review, as hastily scribbled in my UK trip journal the summer of 1995. I only wish I could match what I’d written down as the name of the store (”M + T”) with any external record of such a place. It doesn’t appear on this Record Stores of Soho 1946-1996 map, which seems pretty comprehensive. I do note that it “wasn’t there last year,” on my previous trip to London, so perhaps it was just a flash in the plan.

At any rate, here’s the very mixed review:

M + T on Berwick Looks like a fairly new store (wasn’t there last year—opened in the past month or two?). Limited selection of records, some good stuff, but most of it terribly overpriced (£23 for a used Jap[anese] copy of Marine Girls Lazy Ways, £17 for a reissue copy of Josef K Young and Stupid LP). Decent-sized bargain LP bin unfortunately has virtually all dreck, all styles mixed together, too. There is good stuff, though, and 7″es are priced more reasonably (the few they have).

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t — if i had to pick one it would probably be lovesong by the cure, adele’s cover of course. honorable mentions: again by kehlani, lucky ones by lana, same soul by pvris, my funny valentine by ella fitzgerald (or sinatra tbh ugh both renditions are stellar), shadows by childish gambino, fool for you by snoh aalegra, sweet creature by harry styles, and of course walk you home by our boys nct dream. aaand true by spandau ballet, a classic.