Get Yer Excuse Straight

So, as in most of these cases, I ask: is there a particular purchase venue that gives *you* the best compensation? Answer back and I'll get a copy post haste.

Cheers,
Jon

KG replies: I think picking up a copy off the stack next to the cash register at any 7-11's as good as anything.

You'll be pleased to be informed that, technically, at 48 dollars, the paperback may be said also to figure in the "too expensive"-excuse area.

It's too expensive, doesn't have enough pictures in it, doesn't come with a free CD, an interactive website, a myspace page or a political agenda and I get confused trying to tap my foot along to the music. Was this guy really American? Oh, sorry, he was an expatriate.

KG replies: He was a communist too.

How about "I'm adjunct faculty and won't see a paycheck for yet another month?" This means that next month's check pays last month's bills? (Something about getting the first check in week 9...)

That Messaien book at Borders is $48, too. Maybe I should look into that selling plasma thing.

KG replies: Well... I've been there too. I was adjunct faculty for seven years. As a result I've always been a big advocate for Bard's adjunct faculty.

Ouch, the cost of books. I'm also an author and academic who published a book with Cambridge University Press once upon a time, and it too is coming out in paperback in a couple of months. The price of the new paperback-- about the cost of yours-- is exactly what the original book cost in hardcover in 1994. No wonder I use libraries rather than buy books, as I used to enjoy doing as a graduate student...

This book seems like a good birthday present for myself!

Can one still get copies of the Ampico rolls from Wolfgang Heisig? My Ampico hasn't had its hammers hardened but I figured I ought to have at least one Nancarrow Study to play on it.

And if you ever want that interactive website ... drop me a line.