Bibliothèque accompanied by Blogotheque

Books.
Books?
Yes, books.

Today, my father, sister and I went to the holy grail of cheap (but usually shit) books.
Dirt Cheap, Collingwood.
A haven of new books, cheap as chups (without fush).
It's a tradition, usually bimonthly (every two months, or more) to scavenge what we can from stacks of books upon books (and occasionally absolutely terrible CDs).
The search lasted about 45 minutes, as I dug my way through endless unofficial Stones and Stalin biographies, self help bibles, Limp Bizkit CDs and True Crime "non fiction" novels.
I finished with this.

The Book of Other People
edited by Zadie Smith

The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
Nick Hornby

The Hitchhiker Trilogy
Douglas Adams

The last five came in a box, like a box set, or in this case a 'trilogy' (yes I understand that there are five there, thus not being a trilogy at all, don't ask me, ask Douglas Adams!).

I do own all of them in one book, but being much afraid of large books, this way they seem much more approachable and I'll be able to have a break between each one, regain sanity, rinse and repeat. I am excited, looking forward to reading them, highly recommended by all male family members, seen the movie, etc.
I believe the set was $15 , or three dollars per book.

So, I bought The Book of Other People because (a) the cover design was much nicer than nearly every other book in the store, (b) it was a book of vignettes/short stories (I like this), including some from Nick Hornby (see below) and Daniel Clowes (the fellow who did all of the Ghost World comics) and (c) it has comics in the middle, mmm... $9.95

Last but not least, I bought The Polysyllabic Spree (a mouthful, via keyboard).
I bought Nick Hornby's High Fidelity (read two posts back) and got through about fifty pages until I couldn't stand trying to read an English novel while hearing John Cusack's thick American accent. But I do know that I liked it, Nick Hornby is the kind of author people I know like. People recommend and I obey, most of the time.
This wasn't the only one of his books there, they had a few others (About a Boy, oops saw the movie first, and one about Soccer, isn't that reason enough to leave it be?) and I chose this one, it's a book of book reviews from a column of his, I believe.
I'm through the introduction and when I finish this post I will delve further into the pages and let you know when I'm finished.
I definitely feel that I need to have at least one of his books, right?

(not books)
La Blogotheque.
As far as I know, it's this one (possibly French) guy, Vincent Moon who films bands playing live along the streets of Europe. I mostly like the idea because of the excellent Beirut and Arcade Fire videos (watch the A.F one where they play Neon Bible in an elevator, excellent!).
Youtube channel linkage.

Wise decisions while falling asleep.

From ten pm onwards, this is the time of day that I decide to do something, the time which is so inconvenient to be motivated, here I am trying to get to sleep and then a surge of motivation and energy runs through my brain. There goes my 8 hours.
Just thought I'd share that with you.

Friday night and I haven't got around to posting a blog in a while, haven't had too much to say. I just watched Spaced and had a cigarette, now I'm stuck on making a best of playlist for my 5k of music, so can't be fucked, I got to 70 songs and now I'm at C (in alphabetical artist order, duh). The problem I have is that I try to make a playlist with only one song per artist, but then I only choose the most played song, which then becomes overplayed and annoying to an extent, thus ruining the whole point of the playlist. A stupid fucking cycle.
I do like the idea of having a really good playlist, I guess the only way to do it confidently is to keep a consistent theme like all of the music magazine's free CDs. Makes sense.

Recently I have just been, well, not doing too much, trying to watch a movie I haven't seen every few days. These are some I've seen recently;

The American Friend; directed by Wim Wenders, t'was really good, a few segments with no dialogue add to the thrill (a thriller), intense Dennis Hopper acting, good combo.

The 400 Blows; a classic French film about a schoolboy who goes astray and tries to live like an adult, happy, sad, funny, good, great.

Repulsion; directed by Roman Polanski, a lot worse in my eyes than given credit for. I guess a lot of it was innovative for it's 'time' but a lot of unnecessary effects that ruin some parts of the film, not terrible but not amazing.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico; made by genre slut Robert Rodriguez, so cheesy but so good, a pretty mindless action movie with Johnny Depp and Antonio Banderas, you know, entertaining and that.

Nói the Albino; Good, nothing epic, but quite good, very aesthetically pleasing, a lot of really really good scenes (including pots of animal blood), don't know how much I liked the ending, though.

About to watch American Psycho (been hunting this film down for a good year), my video store only has the sequel, which I don't think I'll watch in the near future. I really like black comedy, and this is supposed to be an ace movie in the genre.