Me, I'm all smiles: more retail therapy

[rhythmaning]

So there I was in the record shop, looking for the new Lloyd Cole CD, when another release by the Bunnymen caught my eye. This time, it is “Crocodiles”, along with bonus tracks, most notably the excellent, wonderful, exciting “Shine So Hard” EP. For a fiver. So of course, I had to buy it – I mean, how could I not?

I was amused to see that there is a recent live Bunnymen CD called “Me, I’m All Smiles”. I have always loved that line (and it probably crops up fairly regularly in LJ posts! Old habits…) – and I was most amused to see that, just like naming “Shine So Hard” after a line from a song which doesn’t appear on the recording, the line me, I’m all smiles won’t be on “Me, I’m All Smiles”, either.

I found the Lloyd Cole, which I have now played a couple of times. I don’t find it as addictive as f4f3 and others have found it – it is ok, but I am not wholly convinced. It could just be that it would be hard to surpass my favourites of old.

Whilst in the record shop, I bought some books, too. I bought “Anansi Boys” by Neil Gaimen, because everyone else seems to rave about him, and I have never read any of his stuff (and it was only a fiver); “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, by Lionel Shriver, which I had been looking at in Waterstones a couple of weeks ago (but it didn’t feel suitable holiday reading), and it was only a fiver; and “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell, because I found “Blink!” very interesting (and it was only a fiver).

I can see a pattern emerging here.

Comments

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

BTW, I meant to ask how you had found Cloud Atlas - I was assuming that you had read it, since you ask me what I thought about it a while ago.

[frumiousb.livejournal.com]

Well, I liked it well enough, but I didn't think that it was brilliant. We actually read it for my book club. Some people found it very difficult to read and others thought it was absolutely amazing. I thought it was easy to read, and just kind of entertaining. A little bit gimmicky.