tales from an ordinary world

1999-10-27

"You're not an airplane"
Guided By Voices.

Sometimes I'm the victim of such amazing coincidence I can't believe my luck. I wandered into Chapel St, to look at Borders for a few books and stuff. I listened to some Guided By Voices CDs, but for reasons unknown decided I'd buy them some other time. Dinner was at "That Little Noodle Place", which wasn't quite what I expected, especially with the insipid Backstreet Boys-like music filling the place. But never mind. Rain made me decide to hop on the tram and go home, but halfway towards Dandenong Road it eased up, and I felt like a coffee so I hopped off, and walked back towards a place I'd been once before, when I saw a Giant Robot t-shirt in the window of a shop. I'd manage to avoid spending any money so far, but I had to have one of these, so I wandered in, and the guy seemed really happy to have a customer (or something). I mentioned I'd read a few issues of Giant Robot before and this seemed enough to get him really enthusiastic, telling me all sorts of stuff about how they'd met the guys who do the magazine, and because of that, they're the only people in Melbourne (or Australia ? I forget) who get the nifty extra-bits and signed stuff for the magazine and other related bits and pieces. I managed to restrain myself to buying 2 t-shirts for the time being, but I know I'll be back sometime soon enough...