Ordinary Boys

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Preston Ordinary Boy / Big Brother
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A friend of mine is leaving London for New York; he got a well paid job in an arts centre over there. He asked wink_martindale and I if we'd like to buy his Wii and games. I asked how much he wanted for them? He understood that I wanted to buy everything and dropped on Wink's lap a box with the whole lot. We already had a borrowed Wii from my landlady so now we currently have an excess of video game consoles in the house. I'm starting to think I don't want any of them - it's just more distraction from the stuff I need to do (study horticulture, write Mills & Boons novels, become a millionaire).

We went for a walk this morning to find a café where we could sit, read the papers and write in our journals. We chose the Rich Mix because it's always empty, has nice big windows that give you a view of Bethnal Green road and nobody bothers you if your coffee mug is empty. I briefly left to buy today's Guardian from a corner shop and walked past Preston from The Ordinary Boys. He's tiny! He went into a new hipster café with three friends. The Rich Mix couldn't attract hipsters even if it tried, bless.

We then hit the local second-hand bookshops for Paul Auster's Timbuktu (for my bookclub) but couldn't find anything. Went to my gym, watched an episode of a new brasilian soap opera while eating toast with peanut butter and now I faff around online while Wink naps on the couch. He was meant to be making carrot cake for us. I might wake him up in a sec.

Comments

[petercampbell.livejournal.com]

I gave up playing video games years back - whole chunks of the evening would disappear in a digital black hole, never to be recovered.

Timbutu's available on Amazon for 1p at the moment - maybe better value than your second hand book shop?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

We've been having trouble with stuff not arriving at our door (the postwoman has a predilection for leaving our packages outside it...) so I thought it might be nice to buy it from a small bookshop for a change. I'm also trying to stop buying from places like Amazon and Tesco because they really don't need my money.

[wink-martindale.livejournal.com]

Yikes. The violent sister loop is disturbing.

[doraphilia.livejournal.com]

Is Timbuktu the one narrated by a dog? If so, I loathed it. I love Paul Auster, though, particularly the New York trilogy. My favorite is Moon Palace.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Yup, it's the dog one! I've never read anything by him so I'm looking forward to it. And I like dogs. :-)

But what I really wanted to read was his latest, Sunset Park. We were actually thinking of suggesting it to the club once it was our turn.

[amberholic.livejournal.com]

If you've got too many games, you should check out http://www.cex.co.uk

They've got a branch in Tottenham Court Road and Goodge Street. I take a lot of games there once I've finished them and just get credit to get other games or DVDs or I ask for cash if I'm a bit low. You can look games up on their website first to see how much you'd get for them.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Cheers, I already have an account with them from my Gamecube days! :-)

I'm going to compare their prices with Game and see who pays better.

[amypops.livejournal.com]

Just had to comment to say, because nobody else has, mmmmm Preston.