Groovy Tunes, Tuesday, 5/13

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Alice reached the store shortly before noon, still astonished that she'd been hired yesterday and hoping very much not to be fired in as short a time span. She would be polite and calm and try to remember everything Chad said. Perhaps she should take notes.

Chad gave Alice the handwavey rundown of the store and how to open, close, ring up customers, sort out some of those discs, and so on. He was also kind enough to explain how to open up CDs that she might listen to them while she worked.

Alice was starting over at A and selecting anything which leaped out at her, which meant rather a lot of A Perfect Circle, AC/DC, and AFI today. (ABBA had been selected but quickly discarded again as not quite her style.) And Dinah was settling in nicely to the store.

Groovy Tunes was open.

(OOC: Chad modded with permission, and thank you!)

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Talk to Alice (5/13)

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She is very willing to help you. Possibly not able to find music for you, as she's still learning most of it herself, and possibly not very knowledgeable on the workings of the store yet, but she's willing to help you, insofar as she can.

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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Chad came back in a little after his class to see how Alice had been doing while he was gone.

And maybe because she had a completely adorable cat. And Prince Oscar Pedro (really, it was Prince Oscar Pedro) had been starting to miss Dinah...

"Hey, Alice."

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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"Hello, Chad," Alice smiled, bobbing him a quick curtsy. "No one has come in yet, so I've been straightening up shelves and looking for something to organize."

She had also been working her way through a stack of CDs, but that seemed less tactful to tell your manager.

Dinah was, of course, thrilled to see Prince Oscar Pedro again. (Chad as well.)

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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Prince Oscar Pedro very eagerly took the long leap from Chad's shoulder to the counter, and then the seemingly shorter leap from the counter to the floor to pad his way over to Dinah. He still wasn't used to her smell, but she was still another cat, which was a nice surprise after he'd found out that Flopsy, Mopsy, and...that other one...had left.

"Yeah," Chad said, a little sadly. "It gets kind of dead around here sometime, but that's good. That gives you lots of time to research."

Chad figured that calling it research made it sound very ambitious and professional and a lot easier to explain to Melody when she got back.

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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Dinah still didn't know what to make of Prince Oscar Pedro, as he seemed to have tragically lost all of his fur. She sniffed curiously, but made the usual friendly overtures. (Not realizing that she was a Commoner, you see.)

"Research," Alice said, jumping at the word happily. That seemed a very nice word indeed. "So I might have a better background to recommend music with. I've certainly been brushing up on my research."

As the stack behind her indicated quite well.

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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Chad gave a slow, affirming, approving sort of nod at Alice's research, and gave a critical eye over the current stack. At first, he was a little worried by what he saw, but it slowly started to register in his head that there was actually a method to her madness in this case, and that perhaps, with this system, it would be necessary to listen to a full range and not just the good stuff. As such, he approved of that, too, only after a moment.

"Anything particularly jumping out at you yet?" he wondered.

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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"The A-B-B-A had to go back rather quickly," she said, somewhat apologetically. "It didn't seem right at all. The A-C-slash-D-C is very wall-shaking in ways I rather like, and the A Perfect Circle is sort of dark-flavored around the edges. The Ryan Adams had to go back as well, it seemed a little ... flat."

She flushed. "I'm afraid I've yet to get halfway through the As."

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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Chad had a sympathetic look for Alice buried somewhere beneath that stoic facade. ABBA was a bit of an...acquired taste, he supposed, and he had acquired it entirely from Pippi, but it was rather interesting to find out that Alice might have a bit of a rock leaning.

"There's...a lot of music out there," he told her, meaning to be encouraging. "Even a quarter of the way is pretty good."

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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"I'm skipping a lot," she confessed. "Selecting things with interesting names, and I let some play for a few minutes to get a feel, and others I pull out again immediately. They chafe wrong, I suppose. The ones I like I make notes on. I would imagine I'm missing a great deal of bits here and there but it seemed like the best way to start was to ... dive in."

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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Worf entered the music store as if he were on a mission.

"Excuse me," he said sternly, "Do you carry Klingon opera?"

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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Alice gave her first customer (with a rather interesting forehead) an appraising look and decided to settle on honesty.

"I've no idea," she said calmly. "This is my first shift. The plastic CDs seem to be categorized by genre and artist, generally, but I haven't seen any cling-ons mentioned."

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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"I see," Worf said looking at the cds. "Optical storage. How... Quaint."

Worf then strode to the cd racks and did a vigilant search through all of them. Finding none he returned to the counter. "I see none. Can you recommend something with themes of honorable battle and romance in the face of destruction?"

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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Alice had been in this time period for less than a week, and had barely scraped the first half of the As. Still, she roused herself valiantly. She was an employee, this was her task.

"The Aerosmith had a song about a gentleman who appeared to be a lady," she offered. "Another pointing out that love proves to be difficult on the knees and other joints."

She wasn't sure what an elevator was, or why one would fall in love while within one; best to skip that.

(OOC: thus making Alice the first person over the age of twelve who found Steven Tyler's double entendres confusing.)

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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Worf stared at Alice for a moment or two.

"Was the love difficult because one of the romantic partners crushed the knees and hands of their lover?"

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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"I can't say," Alice shrugged. "I've yet to discern all of the words to it. Music seems to lack the distinctive enunciation of poetry. Far more evocative, I suppose that's a trade-off."

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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Worf frowned. "Fine. Then I will purchase this Air-O-Smith optical storage disc. Perhaps the evocative music will work as well as opera."

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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After meeting another Murdock, a fact which still had Murdock boggling slightly, he went wandering about the town. The sign stating 'Groovy Tunes' seemed like a place he could really groove to.

He grinned at the girl behind the counter. "Excuse me miss, where do you keep your records?"

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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"Hello," Alice said, bobbing him a curtsy. "Do you mean the CDs? They're in rows over there. Sorted by artist and genre. There's a smaller selection of cassettes, over against that wall."

She was actually proud of herself for knowing that much.

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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"Cee-dees? Are they a new band? Are they any good?"

He glanced towards the wall of cassettes. "Great! I can get some of those, but where are all the vinyls?"

Ooh, boy. This could get interesting. Don't you just love time disparities?

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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"Oh! Vinyl!" The name 'records' had confused her, but the other term she was familiar with. Purists apparently liked the vinyl hiss. She'd no idea what any of that meant, but there was a large selection of vinyl. Very good.

"Over here," she said, escorting him to the vinyl section. Music geeks were very helpful in bridging those time gaps, weren't they?

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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"Sweet, man." Murdock wasn't a purist. He just doesn't know what the shiny plastic discs are. He began digging through the stacks.

"So what kind of music do you like?"

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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Alice flushed. "This A-C-slash-D-C seems rather intriguing," she admitted, clasping her hands behind her back. "As well as the Aerosmith." She pronounced it A-ee-ro-smith.

"I've not heard most of it, though, I'm afraid. I've only started working here today."

Re: Talk to Alice (5/13)

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"ACDC you mean? They're good. Aerosmith?" He pronounced it Air-o-smith. "They rock. Anyone else? How 'bout The Rolling Stones?"

"First day on the job, I'd say you're doing pretty well. My first day won't be til Thursday." He paused as that actually sank in. "Whoa. I'm actually gonna to teach a bunch of kids to fly. That's so cool!"

Mod Your Shopping (5/13)

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Dinah was sniffing curiously at all of the cat-scents here and settling in. She wouldn't mind a few ear-scritches.

OOC (5/13)

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A Perfect Circle mashed up Ozzy Osbourne's "Diary of a Madman" and The Cure's "Lovesong" at one of their live concerts. (I wasn't there, I've just heard it.) Those two should not go together, and yet? So good.