Loot!   
02:55pm 15/07/2009
 
mood: giddy
Yesterday lunchtime, one of my colleagues sent an all-staff email from his Blackberry to announce that the Oxford Street Borders is closing down and all stock is half price.

I swung by an hour ago and found a state of January sale-level mayhem, albeit polite, quiet, bookish mayhem (no frantic tugs of war with the Taschens).

I'd gone in determined not to lose my head, and to allow myself only things I'd been meaning to purchase anyway. I picked up The Philosopher and the Wolf and Vroom by the Sea, and the DVD of Bolt.

Then I wandered through the Music section on the off-chance they had that book on the folk-rock movement that's been on my Amazon wishlist for the past four years, or perhaps The Three Chord Eagles Songbook, and then I saw it.

Paul Simon: Lyrics 1964-2008. A huge, glossy, utterly unnecessary hardback that I hadn't known existed until that second, priced at £20.

Mine. Feeling slightly giddy, I joined the queue - which ran the length of the ground floor, twice - behind shoppers carrying loaded baskets or stacks of books half a metre high. At the till, I demanded and received the free stuffed hamster to go with my DVD.

Don't let me go back tomorrow!		  
     

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That Righteous Stuff   
12:25pm 14/07/2009
 
mood: impressed
music: Pink Floyd - Yet Another Movie | Powered by Last.fm
I had treats last night: The Right Stuff at the BFI, and a scoop of Eton Mess-flavoured ice cream on the South Bank beforehand.

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Spoilers: The Russians get a man in space before the Americans do; the first American in space is a chimpanzee; the X-20 programme gets canned.		  
     

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Round Britain Rally: Bath and North Somerset   
02:34pm 13/07/2009
 
mood: stressed
music: Pink Floyd - Your Possible Pasts | Powered by Last.fm
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London's Burning   
02:48pm 10/07/2009
 
mood: enthralled
At least, part of Soho is. We're all rubbernecking out of the office windows and hoping we get sent home early. Crumbs.

ETA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8144708.stm		  
     

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Five Words   
11:54am 09/07/2009
 
music: Los Lobos - A Matter of Time | Powered by Last.fm
This is that thing where your chums list five words which remind them of you, and you have to riff on them.

[info]kowarth gave me ( Oxford, Biggles, Scooter, Servalan & Orange )

Would anybody like five words? I can't promise they'll be terribly good ones.		  
     

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