And things

[girlofprey]

Mostly I've been having very good taste lately. In that everything, almost everything, I want and pick up and then put back down again until I've proved it's not just a wild impulse, is gone by the time I go back to get it. I saw a necklace in a local art gallery that I really really liked, and I went literally the day my parents came up with my birthday money, straight after that play we went to see, and they'd sold it that morning. I've got in touch with the woman who made it actually, who's based in Nottingham, and she's kindly agreed to make another like it, and she said it would take about a week depending on how long it would take to source the materials. It has now been about three weeks. But oh well.

Cornwall was sold out. There was another holiday for the same weekend, but it was only two nights, which means two days of travelling and one day of holiday, which was slightly more expensive. So no. The next holiday they had similar was in June, when they will no longer be having the special thing with the bulbs flowering at the Eden Project. I told myself that I wasn't going to (finally) get Castle, Waiting from the comic book store to cheer myself up about this, because I wanted to get it on its own merits. When I went back the next day, they'd just sold out, and it would be another week before it might be back in stock. Another week was Thursday, and they didn't have it, so now I should wait until next Thursday, or the Thursday after that. Castle, Waiting is becoming quite apt. I was going to get Angela Carter's Book of Fairytales last night, but was already buying something else, so didn't want to splash out too much. When I went back today, it had sold out. Another week before the new order gets in. Also there are no Flamenco classes in Nottingham, an interest in which was the main thing I took away from Happy-Go-Lucky. Hmph.

But the mail is still working, and what I do have, as of Wednesday, is the DVD of the John Simm version of Crime and Punishment. Not released in the UK, but released in the Netherlands. The front is all in English, and the back is almost all in Dutch. I love it a lot. And I was so right to love John Simm's Raskolnikov. He wanders around staring at things. He has the most beautiful messy hair I've ever seen. He shouts in police stations then faints. He is great.

I also got the first series of Peep Show because it was £4.

1. I want the Rhineland.


2. I love Mark.


3. I love that he found a teenage goth who just thought he was great.


And stuff. I still have to buy flat shoes and two new pairs of jeans before the gig in two weeks' time. Hmmph.

Comments

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

OH I LOVE PEEP SHOW. Mark is just brilliant. I love that he wants the Rhineland. And Jeremy loves him a lot which is BEAUTIFUL AND RECIPROCATED and not at all ONE-SIDED AND TRAGIC.

ALSO I jsut realised that I am talking to you as if you have never seen Peep Show before when I am pretty sure that SCANT POSTS AGO you mentioned that fact that sometimes you watch it on Friday nights. I am an idiot! Sorry.

You clearly have good (or, at least, popular) instincts. You should trust them more! (I'm sorry. Today I was editing horoscopes and have sort of internalised the style. I will try and stop that.)

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

I've watched it on Friday nights before, but this is the first time I've watched the original/first series. The "I want the Rhineland" bit is sort of my favourite bit, and my favourite bit of most things. It's sort of hard to root for Mark with Sophie knowing what's going to happen. Though not that hard, actually. He is a bit great. It's also the first time I've watched the fourth episode, with Johnson, and Jeremy wishing Mark was around, and making signs for him, and hoping he'll make him and Superhands a rota, and hoping that if he smiles Mark won't leave, and OH GOD JEREMY, OH GOD. Oh.

I should trust them more, and probably start taking chances in love and business too, and see how they pay off!, but I have a feeling that would lead to me buying EVERYTHING. Which would not really be good for my finances.