oh so after all the serious hiv stuff, i have to proclaim that hmv rocks at times! i got two cds that would normally have been rather expensive, at normal-cd prices!

kings of convenience - riot on an empty street
super furry animals - songbook vol 1

19.95 each =) i am quite broke now, but very happy. extreme levels of marginal utility. ooh it's like the multiplier effect! a bit of brokeness for a lot of happiness. (i'm just trying to make myself feel better for not studying all day).

but there is still a disturbing lack of Rufus' Want Two!!! what is wrong with all these places. this time i didn't even bother to ask them when they thought it -would- be in stock. maybe i am doomed to just download the entire album. or order it off amazon or something. or wait for my dad to be visiting the US. suddenly he's so busy making the rounds of south east asia he's no longer going anywhere interesting/useful!

also,
'The desire to write a letter, to put down what you don't want anybody else to see but the person you are writing to, but which you do not want to be destroyed, but perhaps hope may be preserved for complete strangers read, is ineradicable. We want to confess ourselves in writing to a few friends, and we do not always want to feel that no one but those friends will ever read what we have written.'

-- from 'English Poets as Letter Writers', a lecture given by TS Eliot at Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University, 23 November 1933. This fragment was recorded by his brother.

he spoke of letters, but somehow it works for the whole idea of blogs as well. doesn't it?

ok must.study.now. such a hypocritical mantra.