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Adam and Joe didn't tell me they were back this weekend. I didn't look. But they didn't TELL ME. I would be very upset if I didn't love them RATHER A LOT and wasn't VERY HAPPY ABOUT IT.

Does anyone want to buy me a doll? Anyone at all? I think you know that secretly you do. Oh God. That's a bit amazing.

What are the good sites for ordering books besides Amazon? There are a few books I'd quite like to find cheaply, and I'm trying not to buy from Amazon since they went a bit rub. Although I'm not sure if the Amazon Marketplace counts. But anyway, I've got somewhere to buy CDs and DVDs, but I'm not sure where would have the range of Amazon. Any suggestions appreciated.

I found this while I was looking around for Silent Hill James/Pyramid Head stuff (WARNING: This clip starts off with what many players assume is, and the people who made the game might have said is, the rape of another monster creature by Pyramid Head, said monster being what is apparently two set of female-looking legs stuck together. Yes. So if you don't want to see that maybe don't play the clip, or look away for the first few seconds. After that all you have to worry about is a big demon thing, a sword and some gunshots, hurray).

I sort of love what I know of Pyramid Head and James in canon, screwed up as it is. BUT I SORT OF LOVE THIS SCENARIO TOO. I WANT TO READ FIC ABOUT THEM LIVING TOGETHER AND JAMES GETTING FRUSTRATED EVERY TIME THE RENT NEEDS TO BE PAID AND PYRAMID HEAD NEVER WORKING AND GOING AWAY TO HIT THINGS WITH HIS SWORD EVERY TIME HE AND JAMES FIGHT AND THEM ARGUING ABOUT THINGS AND PYRAMID HEAD SAYING HE'S GOING TO LEAVE AND JAMES BARRING HIS DOOR SOMEHOW SO HE CAN'T SNEAK IN AND GET HIS STUFF AND RUN AWAY BEFORE THEY TALK, AND OH. All I want is a film or series about a guy living with a big morally-challenged demon and having domestic hijinks and angst. IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK? DAMN YOU, HOLLYWOOD.

I went down to a local gallery yesterday to ask about some metal sculptures in the window. I have some money, and they were quite small and lovely, so I thought maybe I could afford one before I have no money again. So I asked the guy at the counter how much they were, since they had no price on them. The amount he told me? £342. It turns out that solid lumps of bronze, especially those that have been specially sculpted, are very very expensive. So there goes that plan.

I know that I should be saving money to spend on bills and food and stuff. It's just that I'm probably not going to.

A ton of bands I like are playing this autumn, and I'm not sure what to do about that. The Decemberists. Passion Pit. Florence and the Machine. Rodrigo y Gabriela. Even Cherry Ghost somewhere in London. It's ALL VERY UNFAIR. YOU COULDN'T SPREAD THINGS OUT A BIT, DUDES? Hmph.

Oh! Also, Gary came back onto Coronation Street this week, and his first scene with David was so brilliant it almost made up for there inexplicably being no Coronation Street on Friday because of football. They just sort of chatted as though they were actually not too unhappy to see each other. David taunted Gary with having missed who won Wimbledon, Gary revealed, sort of, that he'd arranged the beating David had last Friday by an unknown assailant. And now they sort of can't look at each other because TOO MUCH HAS HAPPENED BETWEEN THEM, but that's not stopping Gary from doing his whole standing too close to David thing, while David doesn't really react because ~~he knows Gary just wants him~~ physical violence is apparently not something he finds intimidating any more, OH GOD DAVID.

Speaking of the beating David got, Monday's episode opened with Gail taking pictures of David's injuries for evidence - supposedly - ala this picture here. My personal thought? Money is a little tight around the Platt household. THIS IS NOT THE WAY, GAIL. This picture, on the other hand, appears to be when Anna and Gail finally get sick of the fighting and decide to force David and Gary to get married to create an alliance between the families. I can't say I'm not looking forward to that episode.

A Poll

In your knowledge/opinion, the Golden Compass movie:

Using spoilers from the rest of the books in the trilogy?

Making up extra stuff for their own purposes?

If it's the first one, I may actually have to avoid it, which will be disappointing.

Had flat inspection on Thursday. Didn't get all the cleaning I wanted to done, but it turns out that where things can't be cleaned, wiping is just as effective for a visual test. Sadly not everything could be wiped, but still, they haven't written any angry letters to me yet. And I like the flat being clean. It's amazing how much bigger places look when you hoover the floor. It needs a bit of a dust and the drawers tidying, and a bookcase for the books and stuff on the floor, but other than that I'm quite pleased with it at the moment.

And then last night I went to London to see Interpol play at the Alexandra Palace. I need to update LJ more often I think. ( The gig )

Then I had to get back to Cee's flat by myself at 11 o'clock at night. I had a route all planned out on the buses because I didn't particularly want to take the tube, but after getting a bit lost then finding my bus route again and having three of my buses go by packed with Interpol fans, I decided to sod it and got a bus to the tube station. It turns out the tube is packed at quarter to midnight on Fridays, or at least the ones going to Kings Cross. So it was all fine. And then this morning Cee took me for breakfast, to a lovely place that offered pancakes I failed to take advantage of. And I had a smoothie, though I wasn't expecting the tanginess of the blueberries. Then Cee went off to do some shopping, and I had a wander through Islington. Bought my own Kripy Kremes, and managed to do a bit of Christmas shopping. My schedule for the next few weeks looks like this:

This weekend - Interpol in London
Next weekend - A thing at Newstead Abbey with my parents, briefly
The weekend after - Free
The weekend after that - Last weekend before Christmas, for which I'll have just gone back to my parents

So I need to get a start on it really. Anyway. I came back to Nottingham, and missed my train so had to pay £30 for a new ticket. Which was shitty. But will at least teach me not to miss it again. And I went to see Fred Claus, with my "free" evening. It was a bit beautiful. ( Vaguely spoilery )

And now I'm home, and my mum just called to say my uncle Bill has died. Which is sad. It's sort of strange because I never really saw all that much of him and my aunt's family, or at least not recently, and he's had terminal cancer for a while. But I did see him ocassionally, and know him, and he was only 65. But them's the breaks, I guess. I mostly feel bad for my aunt. I'm going to try to send her a card, I think. Or send it to my mum to give to her. I think she's been prepared for it for a while too, but still.

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