A.k.a “Further Notice”.<\/p>\n
I am currently watching movies at the rate of one and a half per day. However I’m buying movies (DVDs, that is) at the rate of four per week. Which makes it the first time in a long while that I am consuming something faster than I am getting it. Oh, no, wait. I have also borrowed DVDs at the rate of five per week, so maybe that evens things up a bit. <\/p>\n
I wonder how many people will buy this<\/a><\/b> because of this<\/a><\/b> coming out.<\/p>\n I ordered myself a copy of The Complete Bone: One Volume Edition<\/a><\/b> for Christmas and New Year ( yes, yes, excuses are indeed possible when you make your first amazon.com purchase). This one’s the paperback version, of course. The Hardcover Limited Edition ( 2000 copies, each numbered and signed by Jeff Smith) sold out, and as Ms. Vijaya Iyer over at the Boneville website<\/a> told me, it would have cost me an additional 50$ to get it shipped, in addition to the $125 price. Which is, as many would agree, a slightly high price to pay for a 1150-page graphic novel. How am I getting this then, the humble softcover version, you ask? (You must<\/i> ask, for Amazon’s international shipping rates suck bigtime. In fact, I would venture to say that they suck harder than an acrophobic vacuum cleaner stuck atop a palm tree.) Oooky-san to the rescue again!<\/p>\n Finally bought Jacques Tardi and Leo Malet’s The Bloody Streets of Paris<\/a><\/b>. Which shows how much timing and patience pays off. The original price of the book, if you’ll recall me saying at the beginning of this year, was above 600 Rs. I found it, in a half-hidden ( which I definitely<\/i> would have never entered if not for a book about the Grateful Dead in America that I saw on display. And to tell you the truth, I wouldn’t even have dreamed that the place would have TBSOP if not for the two ladies inside talking about “Oh-one-of-those-graphic-novel-thingies-You-know-I-read-Corridor-and-hated-it” and “I-don’t-know-why-people-make-such-a-big-deal-out-of-them.”<\/p>\n “Thank you, Sarnath Bannerjee”, I breathed, once the lady in question kept the book back and I checked the price tag. It was on sale for 300 Rs. Less than half of the actual cost. Whoopee-de-yay!<\/p>\n Also picked up Once Upon A Time In China: A Guide To Hongkong, Taiwanese, and Mainland Chinese Cinema<\/a><\/b> from the same place. Which was kinda ironic, because we got trounced the same evening in a quiz that was heavily Sino-specific (something tells me I shouldn’t say Sino-erm-oriented<\/i>…). And a pack of 1960’s Gold Key and Tower comics.<\/p>\n I don’t believe this, but I actually saw a Bill Hicks CD (Philosophy: The Best of Bill Hicks<\/a><\/b>)on sale at Music World the other day. The price was outrageous, because it was a Music Gallery Import ( 600 Rs, would you believe that?) The only good thing about this discovery is that I already have a copy of this particular CD, the one that adgy<\/a> burned for me. Hyuk.<\/p>\n I haven’t bought the soundtrack of Kisna<\/i> yet, because there are rumours of a 2-cd Collector’s Edition floating around, with additional background tracks. Remember Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities<\/i>? I bought it twice because of the Edition later that came with MF Hussain postcards. You don’t catch me unawares twice, nossireebob.<\/p>\n Currently reading: A Barnstormer In Oz, Philip Jose Farmer’s take on the land of Oz and its inhabitants and what happens when Dorothy’s son (who’s a pilot) lands there and, among other things, proceeds to have a crush on Glinda The Good, who is “more beautiful than mom ever told me she was. And she has better legs than anyone I’ve seen.” Hyuk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A.k.a “Further Notice”. I am currently watching movies at the rate of one and a half per day. However I’m buying movies (DVDs, that is) at the rate of four per week. Which makes it the first time in a long while that I am consuming something faster than I am getting it. Oh, no, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}