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02 May 2007, 3:26 pm

A book on Salvador Dali, A book on how to draw everything, pencils, a green dress, a floaty skirt and some cheap sandals as I have nothing to wear with my shorts and summer stuff.

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02 May 2007, 3:33 pm

Sopho_Soph wrote:

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The last thing I bought for myself was a map of Manchester from c.1880. It's amazing.

I'm into that kind of stuff. I don't know if you have ever been to the European Market outside the town hall and in St Anns sqaure every Christmas but there is a stall there every year that sells old photos of different areas of Manchester and sometimes maps and things too. I go to the markets every year and I have bought a few of the photos for my grandparents (where they used to live was pretty much completely knocked down in the slum clearance so where they lived doesn't exist per se anymore) and also a couple for myself of areas I have lived in from years back.

I haven't been to markets there actually, but I have bought some old photos of my area at a market once. I also have a postcard of Piccadilly from around 1901 which is good. I like local history but I'm kind pof restricted in where I can go at the moment because of social anxiety. I am working on it though, slowly managing to go to the shop on my own etc lol So I will go up there at Christmas if I'm brave enough by then.

Have you looked at the Manchester Library website? They have a database of thousands of photos, you can search for your area, a road, your school, anything. I've found photos of All Saints Church on Oxford Rd (it's no longer there anymore, but I walk through the park it stood in quite a lot so I find it interesting.) I've sen photos of my school from about a hundred years ago etc as well. It's interesting to look at if you ever have any spare time anyway.

Yeah, I have looked at the local history at the Central Library before; quite interesting. I know a little bit about All Saints, as an area it doesn't really exist so to speak anymore, the MMU campus is on it now. It used to be a completely resedential area. The history of Manchester is interesting like that, in that you have whole areas that have so rapidly changed or even vanished...some even fairly recently e.g. I am just about old enough to remember how Hulme and Salford Quays (then Manchester Docks) were before the recent gentrification.

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02 May 2007, 3:33 pm

Salvador Dali is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century...
Wot a genius ! !! !

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02 May 2007, 3:33 pm

The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter Hamilton

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02 May 2007, 3:36 pm

I bought a shirt and some underwear yesterday.

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02 May 2007, 3:38 pm

A 5.0MP camera and a saitek rumblepad.

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02 May 2007, 3:40 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

Salvador Dali is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century...
Wot a genius ! !! !

I like his bent clocks.

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02 May 2007, 3:45 pm

Graelwyn wrote:

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

Salvador Dali is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century...
Wot a genius ! !! !

I like his bent clocks.

I like his bent clocks

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02 May 2007, 3:49 pm

TheMachine1 wrote:

Graelwyn wrote:

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

Salvador Dali is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century...
Wot a genius ! !! !

I like his bent clocks.

I like his bent clocks

Oh yeah, them too... :oops:

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02 May 2007, 3:49 pm

Graelwyn wrote:

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

Salvador Dali is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century...
Wot a genius ! !! !

I like his bent clocks.

'The Persistence of Memory' or something like that IIRC, one of his most famous works.

I remember getting slightly interested in surrealism for a while in my teens after watching Dali's classic surrealist film, 'Un Chien Andalou'. I remember doing a project on him in art class at school, I made a clay model of his cathedral in Barcelona, 'La Sagrada Familia'

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02 May 2007, 10:45 pm

Watch batteries, a boxershort, and a T-shirt. Gasoline. Exciting, eh? Maybe if I mention that I'm currently wearing those underwear items (right, ladies?). Ha ha.

Most recent cool thing I bought was an irish flute with inline hole pattern, to replace my original one which has an offset hole pattern.

Something I really need, but can't find any that are suitable: Replacement sport sandals. My current pair have leather footbeds, which are so dirty that they probably smell bad and definitely feel slimy under my feet. I need some that have all the advantages of my current pair, but with synthetic footbed that I can simply hose off to clean. Problem is that it's difficult finding functional sport sandals. To anyone bothering to read this rambling, I'd appreciate any sport-sandal suggestions that take into account the following requirements:
• Adjustable heel strap.
• Arch support.
• Synthetic footbed.
• Plastic quick-release buckle on the fore-strap.
• Preferably a level sole (I don't like footwear that curls upward under the toes). This last one is most difficult to find, so I may still consider something that curls upwards under the toe.

JakeG wrote:

Un Chien Andalou

Great movie! I like the ending, when they sprout up as corn.

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02 May 2007, 11:41 pm

I haven't purchased much lately. Last weekend, I got Crash Bandicoot: Twinsanity for PS2 over at Funcoland and that's been it for the last few weeks.

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02 May 2007, 11:42 pm

I bought an icee and some pepperoni flavoured jerky

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03 May 2007, 12:57 am

Some violin strings and a few notebooks.

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03 May 2007, 1:41 am

Yesterday, I got a second hand of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest on DVD. I also recently got, ex-library, House of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski.

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03 May 2007, 2:00 am

Rained in for two days need to walk my dogs but no can do in this storm. So spent no money. Maybe I could order something off the net

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