Capitalist Pornography

I've been feeling quite good about myself lately cus I've finally got the PGCE form done and dusted (Benji's definitely been accepted BTW! Which gives me hope... after all, if Benji, then why not I? etc) as well as my tax form, I decided to have a bit of retail therapy. First of all, I must point out Chazza trumped me in every respect by getting an awesome laptop for an awesome price, but I won't linger on this, cus I imagine she'll give us a traditionally terse summary of this herself (NEW LAPTOP! (jpeg of a ginger kitten on a laptop). Anyway, in reverse order of awesomeness;

These noodles are kind of pricey at 95p a pot, at least compared to the joys of the bulk bought ones from Hyperama. But these ones can be eaten anywhere where boiling water can be procured, which makes it awesome for work! The lemon green tea drink was
pretty awesome too. Very sweet.

Frankly this isn't very interesting, as it's just my lunch for the next week, but oh well.

This copy of Trainspotting has quite a nice front cover. I've been meaning to pick it up for a while, and Chaz coerced me into doing so at the check-out in Fopp. Two pounds seemed like a good deal, BUT WAIT, why is it so thick?

Because it has a copy of Oliver Twist grafted to it, obviously. How odd. Having read neither, I can't really comment on relation between the two stories. Having seen film adaptations of both the books, however, I can't really see any parralels between the two, other than the fact that Dickensian London is a dead ringer for modern day Glasgow.

Anyway, moving on...

Also from Fopp I got this issue of Sight and Sound, which talks about Tarrantino's new film. It seems to more or less give the whole of the plot away, so I'll have to be careful reading it, which is a shame. Obviously Sight and Sound readers are too highbrow to care about trivial little things like spoilers.

In Page 45 I got this awesome looking collection of American horror comics from the last 60 or so years. I've been wanting to sample this kind of exploitative trash for a while, and at £13 for 544 packed pages, this is awesome value. Will make great bed time reading.

By far the most amazing thing I got today was this though: a copy of Suehiro Maro's Midori: The Sad Story of the Camellia Girl. It's never been published to my knowledge in English; this edition is in Italian. But when you find something that's as rare as rocking horse shit in your local comic book shop, it's kind of rude to complain, especially when the asking price is only £8 (:O). Just being able to hold this bizarre Erotic-Grotesque snuff porn epic in my hands is pretty awesome. Pretty ballsy of the shop to sell something that's almost certainly illegal. When I took it up to the counter, I mentioned how surprised I was to find it. The shop keeper chuckled ruefully and remarked "yes, I don't expect you'd be able to find anything like that anywhere else in this country". Great stuff :)