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Feb. 10th, 2007 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twincityhackerWhen out on the town - well, not really, since I headed out of town towards college mall instead of into Bloominton - to get some things for class. Since whatever they charge for a VHS tape on campus is something I have no desire in paying, and other captive audience prices.
This would not normally be interesting, except I hardly ever leave campus. But the call of non-price gouging was too good to resist.
So, I tried to get to Target and a grocery store and ended up at CVS instead. Which was fine, as I manged to find everything I needed there, though it took forever to find the pens and note cards.
On the way back I had lunch at the City Delicatesn, Oyster Soup. Which was nice, because while walking out it was a lot warmer than walking back. Though thankfuly the majority of the slush was still frozen over on the sidewalk, as the sidewalk served as a drainage ditch for the road.
Though the oddest thing was when I walked into Borders, and then somehow suffered intimidate culture shock. Yes, I did manage to be culture shocked by generic mainstream US culture. Mostly because for a moment I wanted to hunt down the Torchwood books - except not only was I in the wrong country but wrong continent. A similar thing happened when I realized that I probably couldn't get anything with John Barrowman in it unless I wanted to shill out for the movie soundtrack of The Producers.
But I did find the 1962 Off Broadway Cast recording of "Anything Goes." Cole Porter! P.G. Wodehouse! Almost Original Broadway Cast! Though, with the "almost original" bit, I don't feel as bad about thinking of hunting down the 2002 London Revival instead.
Yes, the dramas of being bit of a musical fan - never knowing whats the best recording of a show to get. = ) You should have seen the amount of people I had to talk to about the right recording of Les Miserables to get. (10th Anniversary London Cast in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, it turns out)
This would not normally be interesting, except I hardly ever leave campus. But the call of non-price gouging was too good to resist.
So, I tried to get to Target and a grocery store and ended up at CVS instead. Which was fine, as I manged to find everything I needed there, though it took forever to find the pens and note cards.
On the way back I had lunch at the City Delicatesn, Oyster Soup. Which was nice, because while walking out it was a lot warmer than walking back. Though thankfuly the majority of the slush was still frozen over on the sidewalk, as the sidewalk served as a drainage ditch for the road.
Though the oddest thing was when I walked into Borders, and then somehow suffered intimidate culture shock. Yes, I did manage to be culture shocked by generic mainstream US culture. Mostly because for a moment I wanted to hunt down the Torchwood books - except not only was I in the wrong country but wrong continent. A similar thing happened when I realized that I probably couldn't get anything with John Barrowman in it unless I wanted to shill out for the movie soundtrack of The Producers.
But I did find the 1962 Off Broadway Cast recording of "Anything Goes." Cole Porter! P.G. Wodehouse! Almost Original Broadway Cast! Though, with the "almost original" bit, I don't feel as bad about thinking of hunting down the 2002 London Revival instead.
Yes, the dramas of being bit of a musical fan - never knowing whats the best recording of a show to get. = ) You should have seen the amount of people I had to talk to about the right recording of Les Miserables to get. (10th Anniversary London Cast in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, it turns out)
