About once a month I’ll buy something KISS related…cheap stuff,nothing expensive. Stuff like magnets for the fridge (20 so far), Figures and whatnot. Today I got a new cd “the very best of KISS”
Remaindered books. I just can’t resist any book that costs less than a magazine, and I usually get more than one, because they’re such a bargain!
Obscure music/lifestyle/humor magazines. When I’m feeling down, a trip to one of the really good indie bookstores/newsstands cheers me right up (this often turns out to be not such a small purchase, though, because the magazines are kind of pricey and I rarely buy just one).
Small blank notebooks and other office supplies. I find something really alluring about an office supply store.
Did a job some time back doing video stuff for an American insurance company having a junket in London (and boy, they loved to talk insurance-the toilets were full of guys, drink in one hand, dick in the other- still talking insurance).The inspirational speaker-bloke was the guy who wrote “Tuesdays with Morey” – which I’d never heard of. As he talked it seemed to be an odd choice of inspirational material to get the junketeers out hustling policies, being in part about eschewing the pleasures of worldly goods in favour of human values (or something, anyway I get to use “eschew” so I’ll leave it at that) I guess the terminal illness angle had sold it to the insurance company. At the end Speaker-bloke takes a Q&A, and a little old geezer puts his hand up – his little old wife starts looking embarrassed already. ”In your talk you seemed to be saying that material things don’t bring happiness.” “Yes that pretty much right.” “Well, since being here in London I bought a shirt – and I can tell you that shirt has brought me real happiness,” and a smile of beatific contentment spread over his face – a look I would associate only with the highest Zen masters on the very cusp of achieving Nirvana (or possibly Fat Freddy’s Cat after crapping in Fat Freddy’s headphones). “Ah, yes, well I should have made it clear that I meant material things apart from shirts”