Remember back years ago when you'd go to the mall at Christmas and drive around a while before you found a parking space? Now trucks drive around my neighborhood throughout the day dropping off packages. Does anyone go to the mall these days? How can malls continue to survive? Just thinking...
Battle of the Bands Results
Diana in the Autumn Wind
This Battle was essentially Chuck Mangione against Chuck Mangione. Chuck was the mastermind behind the National Gallery project as well as his brother Gap's reinterpretations of some of the arty works from the Gallery album. Both projects used a number of very capable musicians coming up with two very different sounding albums.
Personally I like both of them a great deal, but my preference goes to the version closest to my heart: The National Gallery. I've listened to this album so many times back in the seventies and it really grew on me. Gap's album was a new discovery for me which was led me to doing this Battle. I hope you enjoyed it. Here is a copy of the Klee painting that lent inspiration to the song.
And here are the Battle results:
Final Vote Tally
National Gallery 6 votes
Gap Mangione 9 votes
Next Battle Sunday December 15th
If all goes as planned it will be happening. That's the plan at least. If it doesn't happen then plans must have changed. Enjoy your holiday season!
I picked the winner!
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised more malls haven't folded. Ours still functions despite the vacancies, but the next two towns over have completely empty malls.
I don't like that Paul Klee painting in the least, but I did like the song it inspired.
ReplyDeleteA three vote margin of victory... pretty good Battle, Lee!
The town I live in has one mall, which was the first enclosed mall built in the state. It is 60 years old and really looks like it. Just a ground level mall, really small and not many stores still open there. The mall feels like it got caught in some kind of time warp, along with most of the rest of the town. And I mean that as a genuine compliment! I really like it here.
~ D-FensDogG
Close battle and with me on the winning team! :)
ReplyDeleteIt's sad how malls are almost like ghost towns. I remember the days you described. We went to the mall before Thanksgiving. They had it decorated somewhat but nothing like they did in the 80s. I really miss that! Anywho the mall had minimal shoppers passing by. I haven't been since then. I hope things have picked up a bit. Maybe, we'll get a chance to go out to browse a bit while DH is off next week from work. I don't want retail stores or malls to shut down but I'm guilty of doing 99% of my shopping online. Thanks for reporting the outcome. Hopefully, I can find time to get back over for your mid-month battle!
Such a close battle—always exciting to see how it plays out! I was catching up on some reading while waiting for a carpet cleaning in knightdale nc, and saw this. It’s so nostalgic to think about malls in their heyday; ours used to be bustling, but now it’s just a handful of stores hanging on. It’s a bit sad to see the change, but it makes me appreciate those memories even more!
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