Apparently the antidote for an inexplicably melancholy Sunday is to sleep on and off until 1:30 like you've been drugged, get dressed with absolutely no idea of where you're going to go once you're ready, leave the house, and spend $200 in two hours. This included:
$42 at Ann Taylor Loft, a scary preppy store where I never shop, but which has nice end-of-season deals on worky-type clothes, innocuous sweaters and whatnot, and I've been going in looking a little bit too much like Mary Kate Olsen. lately.
Just add like a hundred or so pounds, and certainly keep the coffee cup. DO NOT TOUCH THE COFFEE CUP. Thanks. Let's just say that "Boho-chic" doesn't fly in Rockville. I should really live in New York.
$82 in Whole Foods, because cheese is SO good, and nuts and olives are SO good, and summer produce is SO good, and not here for long. Plus, I even let myself visit the "natural beauty" aisles, where I never go, and also to buy magazines, which I've not been doing either. Retail therapy can be an ugly, ugly thing.
$40-some bucks in Tower Records. Here are some reasons why I love Tower Records (in spite of the fact that I find it one of the most aesthetically DISpleasing, and odd-smelling, while we're at it, stores in the universe.)
*I almost always find what I want. I went in wondering if I could find the Wedding Crashers soundtrack for cheap, because I'd read that it was this collection of decent tunes from newish bands, including Bloc Party, Rilo Kiley, and Death Cab for Cutie, plus a new Flaming Lips song for geezers like me. I have to admit that I had never heard a Death Cab for Cutie song, and I was kind of sick of hearing about them all the time and having no idea what they sounded like. I'm not ready to commit to full cds for most of these bands so I figured why not just try the soundtrack? It was $8.99 at Tower! $8.99! I was so jazzed. I mean, I was already questioning my need for it - and to find it for so cheap is like a "get out of jail free" card. First impressions: Death Cab song (Sound of Settling) is pretty good, if a little too...I'm not sure what:
i've got a hunger
twisting my stomach into knots
that my tongue was tied off
my brain's repeating
"if you've got an impulse let it out"
but they never make it past my mouth.
bah, bah, this is the sound of settling.
Knots that my tongue was tied off? And no dear, actually, the sound of settling is "For Christ's sake, honey, I've got to put some gas in the lawn mower. YOU cook the bacon." My guess is these dudes don't know from settling yet. Haha. I just made myself laugh. Also, the Spoons song is good, and I'm digging the Bloc Party. I might have to sign on for some more of their stuff.
*They're featuring Abdel Wright in the "new and notable" or "fresh and funky" or whatever stupid label they put on their displays featuring breakout artists.
Abdel so CRAZY. He was on tour with Citizen Cope (aka my baby daddy - HAHAHAHA) last year, and we saw him several times. The most memorable was hanging out outside the Funk Box in Baltimore, watching Abdel and his Latino sidekick standing in the street, with Abdel chewing whoever was on the other end of the cellphone OUT. Talk about blue language. Wow. He was seriously displeased with whatever this person was telling him. And then when we saw him play he was his usual chill and "Jah loves you" self, so we were cracking up. Anyway, let's see if Abdel hits it big. Apparently he used to be in prison in Jamaica, and rumour has it that Bono said he was "the greatest reggae musician since Bob Marley". I've seen Abdel a couple times and I'm not ready to sign that petition, but he's scrappy - I have to give him credit. Plus his photo on his website is kind of cute. He's never looked like that in person, but maybe he's all happy and chill now that he's got that record deal.
*I got Pure Imagination for a little more than 10 bucks. Did I need this book? No. Did I know this book existed before I wandered into the book section? No. Did I suddenly need to have it, have to have it? Absolutely. And although this should be why I should HATE Tower, it's a reason why I love it...I am so happy to have this book. It's very fun. Take that, Tim Burton.
*The magazine section is phenomenal. Truly.
If I have not yet mentioned my hatred of broadband Internet, please allow me to do so now. I HATE BROADBAND.
$10 dinner on at Lebanese Taverna, for which I had to wait WAY too long, but sometimes it must be done.
And that was that. I'm on the wagon for the rest of the week.


Parts of it were incredible. Parts of it were just Tim Burton jacking off (sorry) unnecessarily. I thought the Violet Beauregard character, and her hellatious mother, were woefully miscast. The opening sequence when Wonka comes out of the factory (burning puppets, anyone?) was anti-climacting. The boat ride was only so-so.
At happy hour on Friday, one of the girls said she'd never seen Willy Wonka, along with a couple other seminal works of American film, which must not have been that good, because I can't remember them right now, and we were all going, "YOU CAN BORROW MY COPY. YOU HAVE TO." But we had all seen "Grease", so there was the common ground. Scary. 




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