| FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! |
[May. 7th, 2005|07:30 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  cheerful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | In The Garage, Weezer | ] |
Today was good.
Parents and I left the house about 10:00. We went to Glebe markets, and bought a second-hand copy of Possession so I can scrawl through it without fear of retribution. I also bought 28 Days' Stealing Chairs for $5.
At about 10:40, I left. I went into the Fish Records, and they had Savage Garden's self titled for $30 but the guy offered to give me $5 off, so I bought that. Then I caught a bus in to Town Hall and met up with Steson about 11:00.
We went to Kings' Comics, and hung around chatting to comic-related people till something like 12:30. I got a Star Wars comic for Stevie - signed by the artist, a Simpsons one for me, both for free. There was a comic writer there, plugging his one Small Gods. The artwork in it was gorgeous, and I would've bought the collection of the first four if I had had the funds. But I didn't have like $17 to spare, so I just bought the first issue, and went and got it signed. Then, since last year, we got a picture of Steson as "S&M Boy", we got the artist-lady to draw a sketch of me; she piped up with a pick of me as Leia (well, she does draw Star Wars comics professionally, I suppose), which ended up being fairly generic, because in black and white sketch form, I don't have too many distinguishing features. I guess. The red hair definitely goes out the window, at least.
When we left there, we went and bought our movie tickets for the 2:00 session of Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, then went for lunch. My secret Maccas has shut down! Noooo! How could they do this to me?!?!? While we were walking between places, I kept making loud noises and making people turn around to look askance at me. Then laughing uproariously at them.
Steson went and bought himself some pens and stuff, and a Mother's Day present of two cookbooks - he was intending on only getting one, but the girl behind the counter said that they were doing a "two for one offer", so he went and got the other one as well.
From there, we wandered back to the cinemas, via the cathedral. We went in, and admired the stained-glass windows and carved eagles, before heading into the cinemas and taking our seats.
The movie was fun. There were things that I was suprised they didn't include, but I disagree with those who think that there are too many ideas thrown at the audience. Though perhaps that I had read the books before, years ago, meant that I was not so much being educated but reminded. But I hadn't read them recently enough to nitpick. Probably the best way to see the film.
When we got out, we wandered through shops. Steson bought himself the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack at HMV, and since they were doing a "2 for $28" deal, he invited me to choose something to have as "an early Christmas present". I found Weezer's Blue Album, which I eventually chose over a couple of vying Green Day albums.
We then wandered through Myer, making snide remarks about the clothing. I was both impressed with and disappointed in myself that for every item we took note of, I could come up with a witticism about it. ...Of course, I can't remember any of them now. Oh well.
At about 5ish, we decided it was probably time to head home. I hit the bus stop at, say, 5:10. I finally got on a bus at *checks ticket* 5:40. Half an hour felt like a long wait. I finally got home at like 6:15.
*collapses* Steson, your turn.
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