VLVL2 (9.5): "Audiotapes"

[Dave Monroe]

"She handed Takeshi a ten-page menu of audiotapes,
from among which he was supposed to choose something
to listen to during his Puncutron session.  There were
hundreds of selection, each good no doubt for its own
set of bodily functions.... [...]  Some choices!  A he
went scanning down the list, the possibility emerging
that far from having been scientifically or even
carefully selected, these tapes had all in fact been
snatched pretty much at random out of the bargain
cassette bins at a Thriftimart in one of the more
out-of-the-way locations, and indeed, given the skills
ninjas were famous for, might not even have been paid
for at the checkout ...." (VL, Ch. 9, p. 164)


"something to listen to"

Cf. ...

Sol Roth's suicide may not say much about his
character, but it does provide for one the movie's
most powerful sequences. Roth checks into a 'suicide
parlour', where he dies surrounded by cinemascope
images of meadows filled with wild flowers, mountains,
and clean sandy beaches – all the things which mankind
has destroyed – accompanied by a soundtrack of
Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony.

http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm/hh/soyintro.htm


"bargain cassette bins"

2 - The Bargain Bin. Along with crappy heavy gauge
cut-out imported albums, record shops used to get
along with bins full of cheapo cassette tapes, all
with scuffed boxes and oversized price stickers that
leave a sticky mess when peeled off. There are artists
whose entire connection with me is one album, bought
on a sale cassette - Blondie's 'Plastic Letters', an
Orange Juice album, that sort of thing. Good to see
buy-on-impulse-regret-later didn't die either. Blue
Goose. About whom I know not a thing, bar they once
featured 'Fast' Eddie Clarke, later of Motorhead, on
guitar. I found their (one and only, and not with Mr
Clarke on) album for about 7p in a barrel in Scene and
Heard record shop, liked the fact that (very
seventies) had a band logo on the cover - an
irresistible combination, despite me not having a clue
what the band sounded like.  It was an insipid West
Coast rock sort of dreck of which only the opening
shuffle track was remotely listenable. I think I may
have blocked up the holes and taped over it. It was
all it deserved.

http://www.brogd-n.freeserve.co.uk/va17.html


"Thriftimart"

Growing up in Southern California, perhaps the most
memorable long running radio campaign joyously
proclaimed: "Every Day’s a Special Day at
Thriftimart!"

http://www.coreyburton.com/newsarchives.html


"the skills ninjas were famous for"

http://www.entertheninja.com/ninja_knowledge/stealth.shtml

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