Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

I used to have a membership card to a local Hasting's. Does that count?

http://www.gohastings.com/images_s/storepics/HastingsStore.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/us/30cheese.html

I don't think so. As much as I worship the dairy industry, I'm thankful for a pre-Thanksgiving-night lab that will keep me in Minnesota for Thanksgiving (my family, too) instead of in Wisconsin. Minnesota is way friendlier, even if I will be in Hastings for the holiday.

Regarding PP's year-and-a-half old Skyline question: I've lived in Mankato my whole life, and have been asking the same question every now and then since about first grade or so, and no one seems to know. Skyline is basically a neighborhood, with no apparent non- residential buildings. I'll, uh, keep you updated.

Anyway, MN= classic, though living in your grubby little hometown for almost twenty four years is among the mightiest of duds.

how's the river hills mall these days?

i have cd's from ernie november that still smell like patchouli

hahaha RIP ernie november. i bought bauhaus and urge overkill cds there.

IT'S GONE?!?!

Mankato Ernie's closed in, gosh, the summer of '03, I think? They moved all the stuff to a new location in Sioux Falls, SD. I bought a Bauhaus cd there, too (the live reunion one!).

haha The RHM is, y'know...

So what are the TC area music stores now? It can't all be Musicland/Sam Goody, can it?

ELECTRIC FETUS

I thought someone told me that closed years ago...?

Probably. I was halfway just looking for an opportunity to say ELECTRIC FETUS in big capital letters.

I think it's still around, as is the EF in Duluth.

http://www.electricfetus.com/

^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^

nope, still there! still busy, too, i think they're doing quite well. i think the head shop/spencer's gifts side of the store gets more heavily stocked every time i go, tho. last time i was there this nervous looking 40-ish woman in professional dress was buying a bong while a fat bored cop sat on a stool reading citypages, and i was all "lol mpls"

xps

I think there are three of them left, in Minneapolis, St. Cloud, and Duluth. Treehouse, Roadrunner, Cheapo, Extreme Noise, and some others are still around. I work at a little shop in Mankato called Tun e Town.

Electric Fetus is still open. Let It Be is the one that closed.

xpostss

skin boat to tun e town

aw. ;_;

Still YAY EF also maybe I should try to spend all of my savings at Cheapo the next time I come home y/n

fetus does well. cheapo seems to.

as far as tru-school indie stores, Treehouse (oarfolk) and Roadrunner keep on keepin' on. I think the used vinyl boom has helped keep them afloat big time.

Eclipse just reopened in St Paul.

Dan, the answer is obv. YES

I love everything about Eclipse Records other than that their laziness in checking out the availibility of the name makes me want to slap them upside their heads with their bongs ._.

I love hitting the EF in Duluth as well as the nearby used bookstore with random piles of books everywhere.

I was gonna ask about that, John!

Yeah, a phone call prior to opening would have been a nice gesture.

extreme noise in minneapolis is great to me because their staff works on a volunteer basis - they work for free to sell pounds and pounds of rare used punk 45s.. NICE MINNESOTA PUNX fer ya

do they still have the pool table in there?

naw, it was gone last time I was in

MN classics:
-pie
-John Lurie
-Terry Gilliam
-popcorn balls
-"funeral hotdish" (a lutheran thing I like the sound of, but would never enjoy - often accompanied by "funeral fruit jello")
-old guy curling club
-dog shows
-Minnesot-izing swears, like they have been dubbed for a tv movie - ie : "I sure feel like spit today" or "you motherheader"
-winona, kasota, and all other small, scary, dingy towns with feral children swinging off the telephone poles, chewing dirtsicles

DUDS:
-Louis Anderson (dud for his creepy cartoon)
-old women who smile even though you know they're mad - adds a whole psychotic element to their demeanor
-edina (though I hear they have an impressive perkins, and craig finn came from?)
-new gigolo hiphop/nu-metal scenes - individually, and they're meshing! and though it sounds fun... wait, does it?
-sauerkraut pancakes