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apple_pathways$15.00 at a consignment shop! Don't adjust your screen: those are 5 inch heels! ;)
They're Steve Madden, too; normally I don't care much about labels, but I hate it when secondhand shops charge you $12-$15 bucks for a cheap department store brand I could have bought on clearance for half as much.
ETA: since my Flist seem to be a knowledgable, learned bunch, I thought I would pose you all a question. I bought these shoes from a chain of secondhand stores called Plato's Closet. Does anyone know WTF the name means? Is it a reference I'm not getting? Is there a passage in the Republic where Plato sells one of his old togas for cash?
To keep this post from being completely shallow, a plea to all the audiobook fans!
I have an Audible.com membership, and I get a free download every month. What should I go for this month? I always have a hard time deciding. So tell me: is there something out new that I should check out? An old favorite that's simply amazing? HELP!
They're Steve Madden, too; normally I don't care much about labels, but I hate it when secondhand shops charge you $12-$15 bucks for a cheap department store brand I could have bought on clearance for half as much.
ETA: since my Flist seem to be a knowledgable, learned bunch, I thought I would pose you all a question. I bought these shoes from a chain of secondhand stores called Plato's Closet. Does anyone know WTF the name means? Is it a reference I'm not getting? Is there a passage in the Republic where Plato sells one of his old togas for cash?
To keep this post from being completely shallow, a plea to all the audiobook fans!
I have an Audible.com membership, and I get a free download every month. What should I go for this month? I always have a hard time deciding. So tell me: is there something out new that I should check out? An old favorite that's simply amazing? HELP!
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Date: 2010-10-11 12:38 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-10-11 01:03 am (UTC)And yeah...I realize how ridiculous that sounds. :/
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Date: 2010-10-11 01:22 am (UTC)As for audiobooks, I don't listen to them much but I really loved The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as read by Patrick Fraley. He does a wonderful job with all the different voices for the characters. I had it on cassette tapes (cassettes! I feel so old, lol) when I was a kid and listened to them until they broke.
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Date: 2010-10-11 02:13 am (UTC)(cassettes! I feel so old, lol)
You and me both, babe! I once tried to explain cassette tapes to one of my students: how sometimes the tape would come out, and you'd have to get a pencil and wind it back up again without creasing it. I may as well have been trying to explain the phonograph to him. :/
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Date: 2010-10-11 03:15 am (UTC)It's so weird seeing toys that I played with as a kid in antique stores and selling on ebay as collectibles. I'm not even that old!
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Date: 2010-10-11 03:00 pm (UTC)I'm always amazed when they take TV shows from my childhood and bring them BACK. Especially since a lot of shows from my childhood were crap. I mean, I loved them at the time, but...yeah, crap. A lot of cartoons were produced only as a marketing tool to sell the accompanying toys.
Strawberry Shortcake, She-Ra, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...none of them really stand up to the test of time, but they've all been re-made!
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Date: 2010-10-11 01:50 am (UTC)I heart those shoes, so pretty! I've found Plato's Closet and Goodwill stores to be gold mines in terms of name brands. It's kinda fun with what you can find.
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Date: 2010-10-11 01:58 am (UTC)I have mixed luck with secondhand shops. Like I said, they have piles of shoes that cost 30 bucks or so brand new, so why would I pay 15 for them secondhand?! But when you score, it's pretty awesome!
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Date: 2010-10-11 02:03 am (UTC)Indeed it is awesome! I usually hit up Goodwill for new books to read and cute little gift ideas. Just found an awesome tea-set from England a few weeks ago.
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Date: 2010-10-11 02:08 am (UTC)Why yes, my aspiration is to be one of those crazy cat ladies who has to be dug out from under an avalance of knick knacks when she dies, why do you ask?? ;)
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Date: 2010-10-11 03:00 am (UTC)Nothing wrong with that, hee :)
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Date: 2010-10-11 01:56 am (UTC)I have always wondered why they use that name too. I actually asked an owner of one of the stores and she had no idea. So yeah... cannot help you there, but I love that store.
Music recommendations: Lissie, Reamonn, The Good Lovelies, Psapp, The National, Within Temptation (I always recommend this group... ALWAYS.), Fleming & John, or Over the Rhine.
Book Recommendation: Haven Kimmel Iodine
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Date: 2010-10-11 02:05 am (UTC)Oh, I have such a thing for Mary Janes! Not sure how well I pull them off, but I used to have about four pairs of them.
Embarrassing in public? I know it well! In thrift stores, I have a tendency to get all up in the racks, move things around, pile things on the floor, etc. (I put everything to rights again before I leave, though: I've worked retail and know what a nightmare it is when people mess up your shelves!)
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Date: 2010-10-11 03:11 am (UTC)I've got a pair of Steve Madden boots and a couple of pairs of sandals.
I like those shoes A LOT!
I have no recs. :( My brain is dead after watching The Tudors (late to the party, I know) and starting a knitting project (a scarf with the cable pattern from Watson's sweater in Sherlock!!!!!!) I'm so excited to have a little piece of Watson wrapped round my neck!
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Date: 2010-10-11 03:02 pm (UTC)Oh man, I do love me some shoes. :) I just need to invent more occasions now for me to wear all these shoes!
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Date: 2010-10-11 08:57 am (UTC)Except, you know, it's really not a secret. There's a music/general geekery store here called "Plato's", which I suspect is mostly to make it sound smart.
Am drooling over those shoes. I have a similar pair, but they're shocking blue which makes them a little hard to wear. Yours are a much, much prettier colour.
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Date: 2010-10-11 02:56 pm (UTC)I'm glad I'm not missing some obvious reference to Plato. I was afraid I was going to post my question, and immediately be swarmed with replies that make me feel like an uncultured trogolodyte!
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Date: 2010-10-11 09:54 pm (UTC)2. Re. ETA. Do not know the answer, however I feel the need to tell you I love you. You make me laugh. Can I please molest you??
3. AUDIBLE!!!!! I had a year's subscription the the UK version of that two years ago. The books I bought were:
Memoirs of Geisha
The Prestige
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
I Capture the Castle
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Catch-22
Never Let Me Go
The Kite Runner
The Book Thief
Water for Elephants
Lolita
My favourites were Nabokov's Lolita read by Jeremy Irons, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Kite Runner read by the author Khaled Hosseini and The Book Thief. The only problem with the latter was that the book, unknown to me, was that it has drawings in it and I missed out on that aspect, but otherwise I think the voice actor was brilliant. I Capture the Castle is one of my favourite books of ALL TIME, but I didn't quite gel with the voice actor on the audio I bought. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is supposed to be a fantastic book but I was deeply disappointed, when I realised it was basically Hamlet redone (AGAIN) I got a bit grumpy... but that's just personal opinion. Lots of peopled loved that book.
Er... hope some of that helped???
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Date: 2010-10-12 01:10 am (UTC)Also: it's super long! I do A LOT of driving, and so have quite a bit of time to listen to music and audiobooks.
Can I please molest you??
Oh, uhm...I don't know if I'm comfortable...
Oh, all right, you talked me into it. Molest away!