fopp

was a crap day – lots of work to do, too much having to explain to people about things i thought were resolved months ago have not been and so we have to go through the whole process again!
two things saved the day.
first being in coffee cake and kink and while enjoying my strong coffee and just relaxing i was confronted with the sight of leo sayer and his pilipino girlfriend coming into the store not to get a coffee but a sex toy. have to admire him.

coffeed up i set off to walk along tottenham court road. i am on the hunt for some new prostitute call cards. the moment i am on the road i can feel a strong attraction it might be mystical (arthur and excalibur) or it might has been akin to a scientific explanation (ala light failing to escape a black hole…) no matter what it was i could feel the pull, the tug dragging me from my original path and making me walk a different line.
with my new path decreed i was soon ensnared and trapped within the new fopp superstore on tottenham court road. and what a store it is. with cds from £3, £5, £7 and £10. with dvds at the same price point it is a little slice of nirvana on the high street.
true they have an eccentric racking system and unless you know just how they classify a band it might not be in the section it should. there is a lot to look at and to check and there are many many cds there that i want.
oddly they have an interesting john zorn cd collection (but as my luck would have it they were all £15 each, so not much better than getting them from play.com. mm let me check out modern folk, no 18th day of may (a little later there is the cd i was looking for in the metal and rock section.. no robert fripp stuff). look they have some tubes cd – all £15 (except the one i have), same for manhattan transfer and clutch. i get the feeling they don’t like me and my musical taste.
well i couldn’t find any robert fripp, no the necks, no espers…
but lots and lots of other stuff i could have bought.
interestingly for a store that is about cheap and uniform prices there are a few items that have prices that are so unrealistically high you have to wonder why they bother, (such as the rocky boxset dvd – retailing at £60 in fopp but really only £49 elsewhere.
but there are bargains to be had and your only problem is deciding how much you are going to spend….
so i left with 2 books and 5 cds, i got of light compared with what i could have spent….

i am now in love with fop. now i am just planning smoochy session with them