Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

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

The concept of sauerkraut pancakes makes me want to kill myself immediately.

wtf Minnesota, why do that to an innocent pancake

I have never heard of that, and Dan, you can always shelter at our place in Minnesota where we usually make chocolate chip pancakes, like any SANE person would.

-Louis Anderson (dud for his creepy cartoon)

a friend of mine flew to vegas and sat by louie. she said he was really nice and seemed sort of melancholy. her mom died when she was young and they talked about their moms and louie said his mom dies and he missed her. he got her address and mailed her a copy of his book.

wau, that almost makes up for the culinary Dachau that is a sauerkraut pancake

MN CLASSIK AS MOTHERFUCKER, THE HUMAN CHOCOLATE ORCHID, LADIES AND GENTLEMAN THE BEST LOOKING MAN IN COMEDY MR. FANCY RAY CLOONEY WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO TO STRIP CLUBS AND ALSO RENT AT VILLAGE VIDEO WHERE THEY HAVE THE BEST ANIME AND KUNG FU SELECTION!

http://www.pulsetc.com/image/2006/1213/fancyray.jpg

"wau, that almost makes up for the culinary Dachau that is a sauerkraut pancake"

That's hilarious

wow, I think Fancy Ray is the lady who does my mom's nails. I've never tried sauerkraut pancakes but I have smelled them - I'm guessing brown sugar and the liquid that keeps aging brains intact are the main ingredients.

And I thought putting sauerkraut on pizza was unacceptable. What is WRONG with people?!

even the thought of the stuff disturbs me. A friend's mom once gave me THUNDERBOLT CAKE, with like two-pounds of sauerkraut in it.

sauerkraut on pizza is great

also, am i the only one who saw the mn episode of last comic standing where fancy ray showed up and the panel was basically "wtf at this guy" for like 5 minutes?

xpost no chocolate chip pancakes for you

omg John I must see that

chocolate chips would only waste the valuable pancake real estate that could be better utilized by bananas or blueberries

xpost i know i kind of freaked out but no one else in the room i was in knew who fancy ray was so i think they thought i was crazy

okay, utter bafflement at John repping for healthy additions to his pancakes, wtf

Don't forget that John uses "bananas" as a code word for "cigarettes" and "blueberries" as a codeword for "peppermint schnapps".

takes the pancake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYXmUOasgw

The universe is righted again. xpost

That being said, pancakes with bananas and chocolate chips would be awesome.

lol Fred Willard?

old guy curling club
LOL. my granddad was in a curling club. my aunt is a bartender in this town

fancy ray commercial for auggies!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ8dyfDC2So

greg gagne: "look at those nails"

the man, for nicollet village video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOh661-zDZo&feature=related

ok so i haven't read anything but i caught a mention of FANCY RAY

my dad was in X-TREME CURLING when I was a kid, with a bunch of aging metalheads - the team's uniforms were variously colored neon zoobas.