Twenty-four

[illusionofjoy]

Today I finally got a copy of ...If I Die, I Die by the Virgin Prunes along with Juju, only one of the finest albums ever recorded by Siouxsie & the Banshees, if not one of the finest albums ever recorded.

There is a slightly amusing anecdote regarding that Virgin Prunes album. joi_division and I were at Borders about a week ago. Having been searching for albums by this band ever since the remastered editions were released via Mute, I naturally went looking for it at the store. There was a computer Kiosk set up, and I searched both album title and artist, not only finding a listing, but seeing a flag that said, "in stock," along with a map of which section of the store I could find the CD in. If you can say nothing else of Borders, they seem thorough regarding the resources available for customers in locating products.

In any case, I went over to the section and found the CD, at which point Joi (who had told me earlier that she couldn't find it) told me that I couldn't buy it. Initially I was confused, then I thought she was trying to claim it fer herself, as there have been instances when we will both want the same album at the same time and only one copy will be in stock. Such was the case here; I held the only copy in the store. Then, another possibility dawned on me: she had already bought the CD for me for my birthday. This indeed turned out to be the correct one and she not so silently cursed me for having figured it out.

Tonight Joi and I stayed in, watching rented DVDs. I finally got a chance to see Artificial Intelligence and Joi, despite my repeated warnings that it was a bad movie, got to see Queen of the Damned. I've never read Anne Rice's novels, but Joi has and she said that the film completely slaughtered both books it was supposed to be based on. I've never heard her yell so much...and I thought she liked bad movies. We are talking about the woman who made me sit through Jawbreaker and who owns a copy of Bring It On along with Devil in the Flesh.