When you're kissing someone who's too much like you, it's like kissing a mirror

[vovat]

Yesterday, I went shopping at Target, and bought a few items for household use. I also picked up Rabbit Fur Coat, the album by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, because I'd wanting it, and it was only $10. I've listened to it a few times, and it was definitely worth the money. I can't really think of anything specific to say about it, but I like the general sound. "Rise Up With Fists!!", "The Charging Sky," "You Are What You Love," and the title track are all cool songs.

Here are three other things about my trip to Target that I feel are worth mentioning:

1. While I was looking for some new pants, there was some guy in the area who loudly declared, "You're not going to find too many guys wearing pink shirts. Especially not that bright, faggoty-looking pink over there, that looks like an Easter Egg." I actually have some pink shirts, but I didn't see which ones he was talking about, so I don't know how "faggoty-looking" that guy would find them.

2. The lady working at the fitting rooms (oh, for those innocent days when you could just walk into the fitting room without getting a number first!) had a hairstyle that reminded me of one of the original heads in The Sims. I'm not really sure why, but that's what it made me think of.

3. As of late, I've been noticing kids who have these shoes with wheels on the backs, so that they can sometimes just walk normally, and other times roller-skate across the room. Are these some new trend among the youth? I have to admit that I'm not really on top of these things. I guess I'm becoming an old fogey (not that I followed the trends that much when I was a YOUNG fogey, either). Actually, they seem like a pretty cool idea.

And finally, while this has nothing to do with anything else, revme posted a link to Cary Grant singing FCC regulations, and I thought it was worth passing out.

Comments

[kristenjarrod.livejournal.com]

I only heard about those roller shoes recently. I saw them in the back of the Journeys cataloge (yeah, that shoe store in the mall has a catalog now. Who knew? It just randomly came to my mailbox one day).

Yeah, I'm sure those are banned in every school system in the US.

[majellen.livejournal.com]

Which Target did you go to? Because I, too, was at a Target and was watching an annoying child in one of those sneaker/rollerblade things. When I see people using them in stores and such, I really have to fight the urge to stick out my leg and trip them, because they're so OBLIVIOUS to everyone else walking around the store. I mean, kids are naturally oblivious, but then someone got the bright idea to make them even faster?

[vovat.livejournal.com]

It was a Target in South Jersey. The particular kids I saw didn't look like they were being particularly careless, but the shoes definitely have a high potential for abuse.

[revme.livejournal.com]

the Jenny Lewis album is OUSTANDING. We got it in at work, and basically as soon as we did I went out to the record store to buy it. It's amazingly good.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm also liking it quite a bit.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

You know, I heard of those roller skate shoes YEARS ago, but I guess people are getting up more of the guts to wear them in-public-places-where-they-probably-shouldn't-be-wearing-them-in-the-first-place now.