For the first time in history you can now go into a shop, browse through the CDs in it, and find one by FaceOmeter.
Admittedly it's only one shop, and if you're reading this you probably already have the CD that's there. BUT THIS DOESN'T MATTER. Why? Because Videosyncratic is a brilliant, brilliant place. It is a video ("dvd"?) rental shop which also sells graphic novels, comics, and local music.
Some of the lifeblood of Oxford's scene pumps through this place, so go and check it out. And hey, if you still don't have the album, hate digital media, live in Oxford and want to save on postage - an unlikely string of contingencies, I admit - then head down there!
Today is my first day off in quite a long while and I used my trip Videosyncratic to buy the latest installment of THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't remember now if I've gone on and on about this on here before, but it really is terribly good you know. I am aware that as someone who owns seven graphic novels, four of which are by Alan Moore, my opinion is both valueless and cliché. BUT MY GOD I DON'T HALF LOVE THIS LEAGUE STUFF. Check out this picture if you don't believe me:
What else? A proper summary of the numerous bizarre and on-the-whole-excellent happenings of the last month would be almost impossible, so I resort to a scattergun bullet-point list of aides memoireses:
- Numerous sits on the Oxford tube, some more seminal than others.
- Alphebetising the entire horse section.
- The film 'Up' which, not to pump anything too much, is the best film of the last decade.
- A bizarre sequence of events involving cigarettes, the quadratic equation and a monkey-horse crossbreed.
- Putting maps on the wall, admiring them.
- Strawberry bullseyes from a garden centre.
- Genuine new song ideas, some even leading to words.
- A new hoover, fulfilling yet another dream.
- Delirious overuse of Pret.
- Fixing the Peug's radiator leak (we hope) and broken wing mirror (almost); dealing with the Peug's perennial fuel shortage.
- Being schooled in my new job by my infinitely superior 16-year-old colleague.
- U56 at sunset, complete with Capt. John Smith, Works.
- Posing inadvertantly for a range of different photo ID cards.
- Reacting to the fact that the first of my close friends to get engaged has got engaged.
- Basement Pizza.
- Discovering a Herschel telescope in the Oxford Museum of the History of Science.
- Discovering that the local Sainsbury's sells Thomas Hoe Stevenson's aged red leicester at the deli counter.
- Discovering that the 3 foot tall top hat made by Natalie out of card and paper to fit me also fits my in-development robot, The Optimist 08.
- Evenings in Witney with spiced nuts and posh crisps, incl. the 5p toll bridge.