Mankind's Last Hope Rests With You
Jan. 25th, 2009 03:15 pmGood afternoon livejournal! How goes it with you? The weather here continues scorching. I have a small temporary tattoo of a bat on my hand. My dad and I went to the Kingsford market to buy me jeans and left as usual with half a dozen other things!
The Kingsford Sunday markets are totally awesome for clothes and completely random stuff (also, fruit!) as I shall now demonstrate. We did of course buy the jeans (after arguing over measurements for a bit - why must everything be so laaaarge) from a friendly Russian lady who upon realising we had only found two pairs that could possibly fit me on the rack began to empty out the sacks into which she had been packing away the jeans at the end of the day. We eventually found some nice black ones, yay. Then as my dad paid I wandered across the aisle to the guy who'd apparently bought a bunch of ancient PC games in bulk and was now selling them for $2 apiece. They were really really old. He joked that he ought to just buy a bunch of old computers with Windows 95 on them and sell those with a hundred games each, for people who wanted to play stuff that was obsolete on Vista. Then he looked sort of wistful and mumbled that nobody had that many old computers to sell him. I bought a game called Plague (from 1996!) in which you have to perform virtual neurosurgery on the victims of a bizarre virus, which manifests as a crumbling Roman villa that you have to fix while killing monsters. Also from 1996: CyberJudas! (the word Cyber was in fashion back then.) You play the president of what is described as the most powerful nation in the world so I assume it is meant to be futuristic!america, the world is on the brink of chaos and there is a traitor in your cabinet! I shall try these out and report back whether they a) work on XP and b) are fun and/or as hilarious as they sound.
After that we had a wander around the market, looking at the stalls full of stuff we had absolutely no justification for buying but which was indubitably awesome. These included a set of napkin-holders which were adoooorable black ceramic/mosaic-y owls with big eyes, a camera-holder from 1920 which looked wonderfully Steampunk and another which looked a bit less awesome but contained an actual 1950s camera (obviously nonfunctional) with all these random knobs and dials. Also on the steampunk front one of the watchsellers had fob watches on chains! Not old ones, though, "authentic-looking" ones. The stall with the old camera box also had a bunch of other old things, including for some reason a riding crop.
Along the way a couple of skirts caught my eye as well, a $3 denim one with hilarious patches on the back made to look like it used to have back pockets but somebody ripped them off, and a long white one with really pretty bright red designs along the bottom. I was a bit skeptical about that one because white skirts don't really work on me, but I was seduced by the possibility of putting something over it, perhaps in navy blue if I want to look particularly Russian, or... anyway we shall see. And I bought a $3 CD as well, because the cover looked cool and I figured it wouldn't be too much of a waste if the band turned out not to be good. This principle is how I discovered Matchbook Romance, and so far The Chaperones sound pretty cool. To the internet! ...okay it is NOT these guys. Aha, here we go. Of course that just leads back to their myspace, but then there's this. I sort of agree with the guy that they need a bass player :P but they're not bad. Just try and google your potential band names before you settle on'em, eh kids? 1960's Doo Wop groups presumably not being among this lot's influences.
Whee, cheap things. Now off to some sort of BBQ thing!
The Kingsford Sunday markets are totally awesome for clothes and completely random stuff (also, fruit!) as I shall now demonstrate. We did of course buy the jeans (after arguing over measurements for a bit - why must everything be so laaaarge) from a friendly Russian lady who upon realising we had only found two pairs that could possibly fit me on the rack began to empty out the sacks into which she had been packing away the jeans at the end of the day. We eventually found some nice black ones, yay. Then as my dad paid I wandered across the aisle to the guy who'd apparently bought a bunch of ancient PC games in bulk and was now selling them for $2 apiece. They were really really old. He joked that he ought to just buy a bunch of old computers with Windows 95 on them and sell those with a hundred games each, for people who wanted to play stuff that was obsolete on Vista. Then he looked sort of wistful and mumbled that nobody had that many old computers to sell him. I bought a game called Plague (from 1996!) in which you have to perform virtual neurosurgery on the victims of a bizarre virus, which manifests as a crumbling Roman villa that you have to fix while killing monsters. Also from 1996: CyberJudas! (the word Cyber was in fashion back then.) You play the president of what is described as the most powerful nation in the world so I assume it is meant to be futuristic!america, the world is on the brink of chaos and there is a traitor in your cabinet! I shall try these out and report back whether they a) work on XP and b) are fun and/or as hilarious as they sound.
After that we had a wander around the market, looking at the stalls full of stuff we had absolutely no justification for buying but which was indubitably awesome. These included a set of napkin-holders which were adoooorable black ceramic/mosaic-y owls with big eyes, a camera-holder from 1920 which looked wonderfully Steampunk and another which looked a bit less awesome but contained an actual 1950s camera (obviously nonfunctional) with all these random knobs and dials. Also on the steampunk front one of the watchsellers had fob watches on chains! Not old ones, though, "authentic-looking" ones. The stall with the old camera box also had a bunch of other old things, including for some reason a riding crop.
Along the way a couple of skirts caught my eye as well, a $3 denim one with hilarious patches on the back made to look like it used to have back pockets but somebody ripped them off, and a long white one with really pretty bright red designs along the bottom. I was a bit skeptical about that one because white skirts don't really work on me, but I was seduced by the possibility of putting something over it, perhaps in navy blue if I want to look particularly Russian, or... anyway we shall see. And I bought a $3 CD as well, because the cover looked cool and I figured it wouldn't be too much of a waste if the band turned out not to be good. This principle is how I discovered Matchbook Romance, and so far The Chaperones sound pretty cool. To the internet! ...okay it is NOT these guys. Aha, here we go. Of course that just leads back to their myspace, but then there's this. I sort of agree with the guy that they need a bass player :P but they're not bad. Just try and google your potential band names before you settle on'em, eh kids? 1960's Doo Wop groups presumably not being among this lot's influences.
Whee, cheap things. Now off to some sort of BBQ thing!
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