Yesterday, I went for a shopping trip in Birmingham for the first time in AGES. I was spontaneously invited to go for lunch in Yo Sushi (which was my first time) and then go shopping for a little while.
As it was Blue Monday at Yo Sushi, all the dishes were £2.50! I had five dishes in total and unlimited water so my order came to £13.55 which I was pretty impressed with seeing as we were in Selfridges.
I found a tiny little shop not long ago in Birmingham which is the cutest, smallest book shop I have ever found. It sells all kinds of new and old books varying from classic novels to comics and magazines. What I love most about it is that there's so many books, they're piling up in places around the shop. The last few times I've been in there, I've mainly been buying novels, but this time I decided to have a good search through the comic boxes. I found two comics called Mutatis and Give Me Liberty which were both 50p so I thought it couldn't hurt to try those out. Give Me Liberty is by Frank Miller though, so I'm looking forward to giving that a read. I also found a nice copy of Batman: Black and White which I couldn't resist buying. Hopefully I'll be writing some short reviews once I've got round to reading them, but it's a difficult juggle with all my bridging units for school in September and all the other books I'm reading at the moment!
I also picked up an issue of Plays and Players which just so happens to be a theatre magazine from the late 70s! The guy in the shop was going to let me have it for free which was ever so kind of him, but I paid anyway. I mainly bought it because it features The Tempest which I performed in this year in June (you can read my blog post about it here) and I was interested in reading about it and how it was performed then.
What's even more interesting about the magazine is that it has one act from a play at the back of each issue. The play at the back of mine is Act 1 from The Glad Hand by Snoo Wilson.
I then went to the Forbidden Planet store in Birmingham for the first time (I've only ever been to the Croydon store) and I picked myself up an Adventure Time magazine and the first issue of Satellite Sam (which I've been trying to find for a while). I love the "Bros before Princesses" dog tag that comes along with the magazine!
I read a review on Satellite Sam here which really impressed me, so I decided I wanted to give it a go for myself. As you can see above, the artwork is terrific.
Enough of what I treated myself to yesterday, let's talk about piano.
I've been playing the piano since the age of 8, and I can honestly say that it is my favourite instrument. I love everything about it and all the beautiful sounds it makes; I think it is genuinely perfect.
Over the years, many people have said to me, "You need to be good at Maths to be good at Music," which I've always thought is completely ridiculous. I've never been the best at Maths (let's be honest, I'm diabolical at Maths) but I've always found being involved in music generally easy as I also play the clarinet, recorder and have singing lessons. I had this attitude all the way up until I started my ABRSM Grade 5 Theory preparation and DAMN, it's darn difficult. Practise makes perfect is the quote in my case at the moment!
I've been reading the Before Watchmen comics recently, but I'm reading through them very slowly. I've almost finished the Comedian issues!
I guess this is more of a little update post really, as this is what I've been keeping myself busy with as well as writing letters to some friends who live far away! They sell little postcards in the town that I live in, so I've been sending a few of those to my friends to surprise them.
Thankyou for reading, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the day!
