After yesterday's lethargy, we were determined to do something today...so we went for it big style by, erm, going to Patisserie Florentin for breakfast but, to make things a bit interesting, rather later than usual, at around 10.30....
There was an annoying, yet entertaining, trio at the table directly behind me. Two (by the looks of them) rather privileged American students (designer clothes and spectacles) and a Scotsman of the Chattering Classes all talking, rather too loudly really, about what they did during the great Anti G8 Marches and Demonstrations of 2005.
They were also discussing how best to "radicalise" the people living in the, shall we say, "poorer" areas of Edinburgh in a rather condescending tone. You know the type I mean? The "that's all very well, but we're intellectuals you ought to listen to us because we know what's best for you" type who are usually socialist in outlook but middle class of origin...pathetic
Despite this, breakfast was fine (if a little funnier than usual)...
Afterwards we went up to Waterstone Books in George St looking for a book Anne had heard about and been intrigued by. Turns out it's not been published yet, but she now has the title and it's been added to her just started "Christmas Wish List". Instead we decided to buy Rik Mayall's spoof auto-biography, "The Rik Mayall : Bigger Than Hitler, Better Than Christ" which, from a quick flick through in the shop, looks as if it'll be a corker of a laugh in a Richard Herring type way...
Then we split up briefly as I headed to FOPP and Anne to Princes St on the pretext of some errand or other which ended in the purchase of a pair of (very nice) shoes...
She met me in FOPP. I had two CDs in my hand, "Harvest Showdown" which is a just released disc of a mixture of both well known and rare tracks by Roy Wood, Wizzard, The Move and ELO - and the last album by Four Tet, "Everything Ecstatic"...
Anne was intrigued by the low prices of DVDs in FOPP and pointed out that, perhaps she had found the solution to our oft wondered thought of why on earth anyone buys a DVD of a film. The DVD cost less than the price of admission for two to the cinema and so is "worth it". The fact that it then takes up space on a shelf and will probably never be watched again, is neither here nor there...
Accordingly, we left the shop with "Shawn of the Dead", "The Shipping News" and "Dark Star" and I added a third CD to the pile, Laura Veirs' just released "Year of Meteors"....
Back home I spent time on the net looking at various ELO and Roy Wood sites whilst listening to the CD I'd bought and then to the Laura Veirs disc. Both are superb. As is the Four Tet disc of which we heard the first few tracks in the car on the way home.
Then, joy of joys, the fourth season of "Enterprise" started today on Channel 4. An intriguing storyline in the first of a two parter concerning, time travel, the Nazis being aided by aliens to invade the USA in 1944 and other longer running threads left over from the previous series...Tip top.
Hmm - what a shallow life I lead - take a look here for the real deal...http://cunningrealist.blogspot.com/
2 comments:
... and is it always 'pathetic' to be 'socialist in outlook but middle class of origin'? Why?
If you re-read the post you'll see the "pathetic" was aimed at those three in particular...however, I am not a socialist, and so you've made quite a good point there Norman - socialist in outlook but middle-class in origin aka champagne socialists - patronising and pathetic.
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