Shopping (Or not!) woes
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lenora_roseSeriously. I'm currently almost broke, have an urgent need for certain art supplies I can't find, and have three birthdays due or overdue of major family members.
So Nightwish deciding to contradict my comment that "While Your Lips Are Still Red" isn't on any album *Right Now*? is not something I need. Thankfully, the Rest of Live in Hong Kong isn't terribly tempting; live versions of songs exclusively from Dark Passion Play, and a couple of other bonus studio tracks. I guess they're trying not to compete with their last huge live release, End of an Era, that covered everything Pre-DPP very well, but it still looks like rather an abbreviated CD, even accounting for the sheer length of Poet and the Pendulum. Granted, 11 all-new songs wouldn't look that way to me, but for a live album that's not only known material, but hyperfocused, it is brief.
Also, McNally at Polo Park has a copy of Blackmore's Night's Secret Voyage. However, both McNally's have been being surprisingly good at having their stuff, so, though that album is high on my want list, I can hold off.
In good news, while I failed at finding china paints (yet), I did find two worthwhile pairs of very cheap shoes. This is good news because until then, I had:
- One pair of broken-down runners
- one pair of ugly leather shoes covered in clay dust and other pottery detritus, with a large split in one side
- One pair of previously lovely and comfortable shoes with a split in the suede on the side, and velcro straps stretched almost to uselessness (The velcro barely meets on one of them.) These I'm considering getting repaired because they fit the 20-foot rule for garb.
- One pair of not-terribly comfortable and breaking-down shoes I kept at work through winter. (They'd have been comfortable one size larger, but nothing saves the breaking-down part.)
Not sure either new pair would pass muster at an event. But my feet will be happy with me.
So Nightwish deciding to contradict my comment that "While Your Lips Are Still Red" isn't on any album *Right Now*? is not something I need. Thankfully, the Rest of Live in Hong Kong isn't terribly tempting; live versions of songs exclusively from Dark Passion Play, and a couple of other bonus studio tracks. I guess they're trying not to compete with their last huge live release, End of an Era, that covered everything Pre-DPP very well, but it still looks like rather an abbreviated CD, even accounting for the sheer length of Poet and the Pendulum. Granted, 11 all-new songs wouldn't look that way to me, but for a live album that's not only known material, but hyperfocused, it is brief.
Also, McNally at Polo Park has a copy of Blackmore's Night's Secret Voyage. However, both McNally's have been being surprisingly good at having their stuff, so, though that album is high on my want list, I can hold off.
In good news, while I failed at finding china paints (yet), I did find two worthwhile pairs of very cheap shoes. This is good news because until then, I had:
- One pair of broken-down runners
- one pair of ugly leather shoes covered in clay dust and other pottery detritus, with a large split in one side
- One pair of previously lovely and comfortable shoes with a split in the suede on the side, and velcro straps stretched almost to uselessness (The velcro barely meets on one of them.) These I'm considering getting repaired because they fit the 20-foot rule for garb.
- One pair of not-terribly comfortable and breaking-down shoes I kept at work through winter. (They'd have been comfortable one size larger, but nothing saves the breaking-down part.)
Not sure either new pair would pass muster at an event. But my feet will be happy with me.
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Speaking of present-late...
Date: 2009-05-01 04:28 am (UTC)Ember, m'dear, would you please quit climbing my braid! You may be little compared to Treasure ... *YOW!!* but you're bigger than Mortimer was when that was cute...
Anyhow, where was I? If you do manage to find those china paints or something equally delectable, pray remember that while you got me Hero for Christmas, I've not given you anything yet (and still can't get the burner to give me anything but a somewhat scratchy copy). I would love to get you something!
Brannie (somewhat scratched, but not scalped yet, thank Heavens)
Re: Speaking of present-late...
Date: 2009-05-01 04:55 am (UTC)And I AM deeply frustrated by nobody appearing to have china paints. (My plates didn't turn out as intended, they were the best solution my professors could think of. Speaking of which, I meant to e-mail them on that subject...)
Are you (plural, of course) coming over Sunday? I haven't decided what I'll play yet, though there's a chance it may be partly known to you. (Garmarna came to mind since people liked Varttina, but I'd avoid "boring you" by playing stuff from the albums you don't have. :)
(And I've been playing Youtube in the background tonight. So "While Your Lips are Still Red" just started. How apropos.)
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Date: 2009-05-01 07:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-14 06:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-01 03:36 pm (UTC)Terry had a question for you on her LJ:
http://threeoutside.livejournal.com/32414.html
Something from the long-ago RM days.
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Date: 2009-05-04 11:55 pm (UTC)