what an interesting day!
today was the mother tongue A level paper, which i don't do, so i pretty much had the day off. this music store here's kind of gone bust which is really sad news, but the happier news is that they're selling stuff off at like 75% discounts and things so i was ridiculously excited about going to see what was there. as i told
falulatonks yesterday, i was hoping to find like John Mayer CDs at like $5 because that's just wonderful, but it was really very crowded when I got there and all the popular/common music was already gone. No Snow Patrol, no Deathcab, no Pete Murray[last time i dropped in there was one copy of Feeler, damn.], no Rachael Yamagata, no Tristan Prettyman.No Goo Goo Dolls. Hardly any of the soundtracks I've been dying to get either. I should have expected that, I guess. But no matter, I was kind of adamant that I should get something atleast because I've wanting to buy CDs for so long.
After scouring through stacks and piles and boxes of CDs I eventually got Nelly Furtado's Folklore, Coldplay's Parachutes[don't panic!], The Order of the Phoenix Soundtrack[ i couldn't resist, hehe.], the Billy Elliot soundtrack[this has quite a lovely soundtrack. Stuff like I Love To Boogie is so much fun to listen to.] and I also got a Blues Brothers CD on a whim. Yeah I got like 5 CDs for like twenty bucks which is a great deal to me because usually it's so hard to find decently priced CDs here.My friends know how I whine and complain about John Mayer albums being ridiculously expensive. Yeah so this was quite nice. Other stuff I found but didn't buy included an Ataris live CD, Franz Ferdinand's first album, Damien Rice's Live from Union Chapel,a fair bit of Britney's old stuff, a lot of Paul McCartney[damn i swear i was so close to getting one. I feel a little bad for picking Blues Brothers over Paul McCartney but seriously considering how Blues crazy I am right now, they won easily,even if I'm not even 100% sure they're actually blues.] I also found like some things that seemed worth buying but in comparison to the stuff it wasn't worth it, like Hoobastank, Phantom Planet, uh yeah a lot stuff, basically. But mostly what was left was oldies and classical music and stuff.
I didn't even bother looking for movies because I wanted only music for today:D i feel good about that, strangely enough.
Thomson Plaza, the mall at which this music store was, kind of permanently has this book sale going on in its open space between shops, and I'm always tempted to take a look because they sell books at like $5 and that's also kind fo awesome, right? Alright so today since I went there myself armed with my own money, I took my own sweet time and ransacked whatever was there. I actually looked through three boxes full of comics, found a handful that seemed very awesome but didn't buy them in the end because books>those thin comics. My sis got a bunch of comics once and I have to admit I haven't really read all of them even if I want to hee. So I put them back. But one of them was a Vertigo comic and Jill Thompson was involved somehow and on hindsight maybe I should have bought it, heh. Nevermind. Either way I bought two books, Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst and Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler which funnily enough can be read here actually. Ah well. They seemed interesting, and I'll admit I mainly got the second one because the first few pages had a writing style I liked and it's supposedly like a male version of Lolita, which could be an interesting read. And the other one's obvious. It's travel writing-y stuff! Which is amazingly fun to read. And the cover had PARROTS! hehe. Yeah so two more books in my stuff to read!
Fun day. Couldn't go jogging though.
Disney was showing Toy Story today. I watched a bit while eating my dinner, and felt really nice watching it. Pixar's so amazing.
falulatonks yesterday, i was hoping to find like John Mayer CDs at like $5 because that's just wonderful, but it was really very crowded when I got there and all the popular/common music was already gone. No Snow Patrol, no Deathcab, no Pete Murray[last time i dropped in there was one copy of Feeler, damn.], no Rachael Yamagata, no Tristan Prettyman.No Goo Goo Dolls. Hardly any of the soundtracks I've been dying to get either. I should have expected that, I guess. But no matter, I was kind of adamant that I should get something atleast because I've wanting to buy CDs for so long.
After scouring through stacks and piles and boxes of CDs I eventually got Nelly Furtado's Folklore, Coldplay's Parachutes[don't panic!], The Order of the Phoenix Soundtrack[ i couldn't resist, hehe.], the Billy Elliot soundtrack[this has quite a lovely soundtrack. Stuff like I Love To Boogie is so much fun to listen to.] and I also got a Blues Brothers CD on a whim. Yeah I got like 5 CDs for like twenty bucks which is a great deal to me because usually it's so hard to find decently priced CDs here.My friends know how I whine and complain about John Mayer albums being ridiculously expensive. Yeah so this was quite nice. Other stuff I found but didn't buy included an Ataris live CD, Franz Ferdinand's first album, Damien Rice's Live from Union Chapel,a fair bit of Britney's old stuff, a lot of Paul McCartney[damn i swear i was so close to getting one. I feel a little bad for picking Blues Brothers over Paul McCartney but seriously considering how Blues crazy I am right now, they won easily,even if I'm not even 100% sure they're actually blues.] I also found like some things that seemed worth buying but in comparison to the stuff it wasn't worth it, like Hoobastank, Phantom Planet, uh yeah a lot stuff, basically. But mostly what was left was oldies and classical music and stuff.
I didn't even bother looking for movies because I wanted only music for today:D i feel good about that, strangely enough.
Thomson Plaza, the mall at which this music store was, kind of permanently has this book sale going on in its open space between shops, and I'm always tempted to take a look because they sell books at like $5 and that's also kind fo awesome, right? Alright so today since I went there myself armed with my own money, I took my own sweet time and ransacked whatever was there. I actually looked through three boxes full of comics, found a handful that seemed very awesome but didn't buy them in the end because books>those thin comics. My sis got a bunch of comics once and I have to admit I haven't really read all of them even if I want to hee. So I put them back. But one of them was a Vertigo comic and Jill Thompson was involved somehow and on hindsight maybe I should have bought it, heh. Nevermind. Either way I bought two books, Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst and Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler which funnily enough can be read here actually. Ah well. They seemed interesting, and I'll admit I mainly got the second one because the first few pages had a writing style I liked and it's supposedly like a male version of Lolita, which could be an interesting read. And the other one's obvious. It's travel writing-y stuff! Which is amazingly fun to read. And the cover had PARROTS! hehe. Yeah so two more books in my stuff to read!
Fun day. Couldn't go jogging though.
Disney was showing Toy Story today. I watched a bit while eating my dinner, and felt really nice watching it. Pixar's so amazing.