... tired...
But the week continues well. Yesterday we ordered a handful of DVDs from play.com - we're working on replacing some of our old favourite videos and they have some great special deals at the moment: three for £20, £17.99 buy one get one free (the 2 disc
Rocky Horror Picture Show is in that list, we'll order it later along with - probably -
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), plus a whole load of cheap DVDs of old films.
The Unnamable/The Unnamable Returns for me - the only Lovecraftian films I've ever really liked, and I have
no idea why, they're really not very good at all, although it's fun to see John Rhys-Davies bring some weight [pun deliberate] to such a light plot, but at £12.99 for the two it was irresistible (plus the videos were ex-rental and in a terrible state now!). We've also ordered
Rawhead Rex - very early Clive Barker - for Ken. Birthday presents for each other!
More CH was written.
And it was Kai's parent/teacher evening... Relatively painless although his teacher isn't happy with his fidgeting and being distracted all the time. I think that might be partly due to the situation at home - it has been a little stressful here over the last four months. Seems the school admin hadn't actually told the teacher about the medical problems... Anyway, we had a chat about it on the way home and Kai's going to work on his concentration.
I had to get into town to throw money at the bank today, so took advantage of the trip to do a little shopping. Actually managed to find what I was looking for for Carol's birthday present! Also checked out the two city centre comic shops for manga...
Forbidden Planet seems to have gone terribly mainstream these days, avoiding anything that could be seen as at all adventurous/shonen-ai in the
genre (= they didn't have any of the titles I was looking for. Well, except for
Demon Ororon 3, which I grabbed, and
Les Bijoux 5, which I've given to Ken to hide until I can get the other 4 vols (of which more in a moment). The art is
beautiful, and the
story sounds most intriguing: shades of
Ai no Kusabi, perhaps? I think I shall enjoy it...)
Then I went back to
Kathie's Comics (there's still a problem with some of the pages on the site, alas. I'll try to remember to let them know next time I visit.) I've mentioned this place before; it's quite a favourite shop. Had a chat with the guy at the counter (who certainly knows his manga!) and found that they're more than happy to order the titles I want - and lay them by for me to pick up when I can afford them (heh, first lay-by I've found here, Lutra!) So...
They're sending
Fake 4 & 5 to Briz from their Plymouth shop for me, and I've ordered volumes 3 & 7. And
Under the Glass Moon 2,
Immortal Rain 2 and
Les Bijoux 1-4. Then I'll start on
Gravitation and possibly
Fruits Basket. There were some other most interesting looking titles in their catalogue too. Then come April they'll be able to order Viz titles, so later in the year I'll be able to get my paws on
Descendants of Darkness,
Hikaru No Go and the couple of
UM volumes I'd like. After that... well, I'll see what's new: they have manga 'samplers' in the shop for customers to drool over...
I'm dead chuffed. I'd much rather give my money to an independent in any case, and this sort of service is great! So I've updated my infobar accordingly. (Yes, I still want the complete
Trigun manga, and
Cowboy Bebop, but those are relatively easy to get hold of.)
And Ken went to the BRISTAL meeting tonight instead of me.
[blink] Kai has bought a
Red Nose and customised it. At least he didn't argue when I told him no, he
couldn't try out the red hair gel (for him, not the nose, that is).
Ororon 3 is gripping...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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