Let's hear it for not accomplising anything I set out to do today!
Wait, that's not true. I DID return my library book. And, I did get a lot of walking in. So much walking that by the time I was on my way home my dogs were BARKIN! It was good though.
So, instead of doing the laundry and getting a new cover for my couch, what did I get? Oh, dear reader...the motherlode of media under $1.00.
My first stop after the library was Qdoba for a burrito. It was okay...I should probably stop trying with that place because I am never REALLY pleased, but sometimes I just want trashy mexican. And they deliver.
Caught the bus to the southside and walked down to goodwill. I looked for a couch cover, but there was nothing suitable. So instead I got the Erasure video collection, and the following tapes: The Honeydrippers Vol 1, Mott the Hooples Greatest Hits, Tenement Symphony by Marc Almond, and.....Secrets of the Beehive by David Sylvian. Ha-CHA! The total came to under $7.00--oh! I got a couple of books too. A Year in Provence and another food memoir sort of thing called Let Them Eat Cake which I bought strictly because it had a recommendation by Marion Cunningham on the back, and I love that lady.
So I crossed the street and set about finding Urban Outfitters. On the way I passed H&M, so I went in there to see what all the fuss is about. Hmm. I guess I can see why my small friends like it. They have a lot of small stuff for cheap. I have to say that I am really not feelin this season's "looks" from what I could tell. I managed to keep all the sales staff at a distance by keeping my headphones on, and Lou Reed singing "White Light/White Heat" helped me keep my head together. I exited and walked on to Urban Outfitters, where I had a similar experience. They DID have couch covers, and they WERE on sale, but none of them really called out to me for the $$ they wanted. I could have bought one just to get one, but I didn't want to make that kind of investment on something I didn't love. So I wandered around there a bit....some cute stuff, but nothing I had to have. Thank god.
I walked across the street to Sur La Table...now, there is a store where I could get into some trouble. I had a little breakdown in the baking and cake decorating aisle...all the pretty colored sugar! The only thing I actually bought, though, is a real honest to goodness cocktail muddler. They had two different styles of cocktail muddlers. I got the cheaper one. The nice nice man behind the counter asked if I wanted to get their catalog in the mail and I felt almost like he was proposing to me. I tried to act appropriately to the situation though, and just said Yes please.
I managed to make it out of there, stopping to caress the orange le cruset tagines they had in the window display. So pretty.
I caught a bus to the other end of carson, and went right to the culture shop, where I was sure I could get a hippie tapestry for my couch for cheap.
Well, I was WRONG. They had the hippie tapestries, all right, but for $36. What?!?! Obviously, their market is not actual hippies. So I contented myself with only a bar of nag champa soap. Walked down to the Salvation Army, and was met with a similar lack of appropriate couch covering. I am now regretting not getting the purple sheet that I saw, which I think would have made at least a serviceable temporary couch covering. Oh well. It seemed like it might have been hard to find someone to ring me up anyway.
Walked on down the street and came upon Slacker, where I picked up the latest issue of Bitch magazine, and a really awesome little present for J*. Can't say what it is till I give it to her. Then I went next door to have a coffee at the Beehive which I always must do when I am in the southside.
Finally, I walked further down the road and came upon The Exchange. Now, I don't really expect much from the southside exchange since it is hipster central, but I did want to peruse the $1 Cds. I got Monster by REM and Southern Harmony and Musical Companion or whatever it's called by the Black Crowes. And then, for some reason I was drawn to the video selection, whereupon I came across The INXS video compilation for $1. ONE DOLLAR! For all the Michael Hutchence you could want! (well, not all technically--it ends with Suicide Blonde. But all the stuff from the REALLY good albums like ShabooShabah and the Swing and Listen Like Theives and Kick) OH man....I really had forgotten how influential he was on my personal style. I think I picked up my tendency toward arm dancing from him, and I KNOW I picked up my tendency to flash the peace sign from that one tiny little moment in "Need You Tonight". My favorite member of INXS was always Kirk, and still is, but there is no denying the absolute star power of Michael.
All in all, a good though completely unproductive day. Sometimes you just gotta have those.
Wait, that's not true. I DID return my library book. And, I did get a lot of walking in. So much walking that by the time I was on my way home my dogs were BARKIN! It was good though.
So, instead of doing the laundry and getting a new cover for my couch, what did I get? Oh, dear reader...the motherlode of media under $1.00.
My first stop after the library was Qdoba for a burrito. It was okay...I should probably stop trying with that place because I am never REALLY pleased, but sometimes I just want trashy mexican. And they deliver.
Caught the bus to the southside and walked down to goodwill. I looked for a couch cover, but there was nothing suitable. So instead I got the Erasure video collection, and the following tapes: The Honeydrippers Vol 1, Mott the Hooples Greatest Hits, Tenement Symphony by Marc Almond, and.....Secrets of the Beehive by David Sylvian. Ha-CHA! The total came to under $7.00--oh! I got a couple of books too. A Year in Provence and another food memoir sort of thing called Let Them Eat Cake which I bought strictly because it had a recommendation by Marion Cunningham on the back, and I love that lady.
So I crossed the street and set about finding Urban Outfitters. On the way I passed H&M, so I went in there to see what all the fuss is about. Hmm. I guess I can see why my small friends like it. They have a lot of small stuff for cheap. I have to say that I am really not feelin this season's "looks" from what I could tell. I managed to keep all the sales staff at a distance by keeping my headphones on, and Lou Reed singing "White Light/White Heat" helped me keep my head together. I exited and walked on to Urban Outfitters, where I had a similar experience. They DID have couch covers, and they WERE on sale, but none of them really called out to me for the $$ they wanted. I could have bought one just to get one, but I didn't want to make that kind of investment on something I didn't love. So I wandered around there a bit....some cute stuff, but nothing I had to have. Thank god.
I walked across the street to Sur La Table...now, there is a store where I could get into some trouble. I had a little breakdown in the baking and cake decorating aisle...all the pretty colored sugar! The only thing I actually bought, though, is a real honest to goodness cocktail muddler. They had two different styles of cocktail muddlers. I got the cheaper one. The nice nice man behind the counter asked if I wanted to get their catalog in the mail and I felt almost like he was proposing to me. I tried to act appropriately to the situation though, and just said Yes please.
I managed to make it out of there, stopping to caress the orange le cruset tagines they had in the window display. So pretty.
I caught a bus to the other end of carson, and went right to the culture shop, where I was sure I could get a hippie tapestry for my couch for cheap.
Well, I was WRONG. They had the hippie tapestries, all right, but for $36. What?!?! Obviously, their market is not actual hippies. So I contented myself with only a bar of nag champa soap. Walked down to the Salvation Army, and was met with a similar lack of appropriate couch covering. I am now regretting not getting the purple sheet that I saw, which I think would have made at least a serviceable temporary couch covering. Oh well. It seemed like it might have been hard to find someone to ring me up anyway.
Walked on down the street and came upon Slacker, where I picked up the latest issue of Bitch magazine, and a really awesome little present for J*. Can't say what it is till I give it to her. Then I went next door to have a coffee at the Beehive which I always must do when I am in the southside.
Finally, I walked further down the road and came upon The Exchange. Now, I don't really expect much from the southside exchange since it is hipster central, but I did want to peruse the $1 Cds. I got Monster by REM and Southern Harmony and Musical Companion or whatever it's called by the Black Crowes. And then, for some reason I was drawn to the video selection, whereupon I came across The INXS video compilation for $1. ONE DOLLAR! For all the Michael Hutchence you could want! (well, not all technically--it ends with Suicide Blonde. But all the stuff from the REALLY good albums like ShabooShabah and the Swing and Listen Like Theives and Kick) OH man....I really had forgotten how influential he was on my personal style. I think I picked up my tendency toward arm dancing from him, and I KNOW I picked up my tendency to flash the peace sign from that one tiny little moment in "Need You Tonight". My favorite member of INXS was always Kirk, and still is, but there is no denying the absolute star power of Michael.
All in all, a good though completely unproductive day. Sometimes you just gotta have those.
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