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Unnecessary objects of desire

 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:54 / 24.08.04
Oh, bloody typical. I just get a nice, respectable, unflashy graphics card, and now I want a new computer. New stock at Morgan.

Of course, sensible Haus Captain is telling me that there is nothing this computer will do that mine does not, and that it therefore makes more sense to wait until 64-bit processors come down yet further, PCI Express is standard, blee dee blee blee dee blah. I am aware that this would, although I could recoup at least some of the cost flogging my 802.11b kit, USB TV tuner and suchlike on eBay, be a sillly thing to buy. I am aware that Half-Life 2 isn't even *out* yet, so it makes little sense to buy a PC with half an eye on it. I remind myself that all I really need from a computer is a word processor and an Internet connection. I remind myself sternly that I now have five computers, and until I get rid of some of these it is silly to lust after another one.

And yet... it's a *bargain*...

What don't you need at all, but feel vague desire for?
 
 
Tryphena Absent
10:48 / 24.08.04
Chie Mihara boots from Poste Mistress. Totally unnecessary, I wish I could find a picture to share with you all.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
10:56 / 24.08.04
I regularly cast my beady little eye over secondhand Nikon FM2s. Such a frivolous notion that I would buy one, after all, I own 2 Nikon 35mm cameras already. A third would be completely uncalled for, but that nice metal body and rather sexy wind-on action just call out to be bought and used with tender loving care.

I can't explain what it is about this camera that makes it so lovely but its a classic and I wants it my precious.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:06 / 24.08.04
Mmmm. Adidas late 70's/early 80's tracky top. Red. 3 Stripes. I can't afford it. Men's XS size=perfect fit. (don't like the styling of the women's ones.)

Reader, I bought it.

It's worth every penny for just how good I look in it. Only shown it to one person, who then tried to take it home.

mmmmmm
 
 
The Puck
11:07 / 24.08.04
i want an ipod so badly, that its going to require my ATM card to give me small electric shocks to stop me blowing my student loan (if i ever get it)
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:11 / 24.08.04
ooh, i found pix. Proper flared collar etc.

Isn't he beautiful? And heeeesssssss mine.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:14 / 24.08.04
Ah, but will it be as good without that guy's weird neck?
 
 
Sax
11:20 / 24.08.04
I want some kind of remote controlled water-going vessel, preferably a submarine.

And an iPod.
 
 
Axolotl
11:20 / 24.08.04
A car. I just had to scrap my old mini (*sob*) and though I don't really need another one I keep on seeing eccentric old cars that are really cool. So far however sanity has prevailed.
 
 
Sax
11:22 / 24.08.04
Oh, and when I saw Haus' bold link "new stock at Morgan" I had a sudden, cold image of him wearing a tiny black mini-skirt and a skin-tight white vest with a love heart on it.

And now I want that, as well. Or at least a photograph of it to treasure.
 
 
Unencumbered
11:33 / 24.08.04
I want a 40 gig iRiver. It plays Ogg Vorbis as well as MP3 files and it's not DRM'd up to the eyeballs.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
11:38 / 24.08.04
Juicy Salif, from the high Alessi design god Phillipe Starke.

It also comes in an anniversary gold plated edition which is not intended for practical use.

This piece if kitchenware is so fantastic I actually class it as pornographic.
 
 
sleazenation
11:49 / 24.08.04
the way it wear's its lemon cap at that jaunty angle...
 
 
Ariadne
11:51 / 24.08.04
ah cannae see it! it's just a red cross from here. Is itone of those lemon squeezers on three legs?
 
 
Timelord
11:54 / 24.08.04
I didn't want an iPod, I could not imagine what possible use or interest such a device would fulfill until a friend of mine had hers stolen. She claimed it on insurance and then, embarrassingly, found the thing and decided to sell it to me for almost nothing as her new and improved one was organised for her by the insurance company.

Bliss! I have NO idea how I survived without it all these years.

I really want one of these new generation SLR digital cameras though. I have NO problem imagining how much better one of THOSE would be than wot I've got. Imagine the power of having everyone in London get out of the damn way while you're trying to take a picture of some trollop in cut off shorts... ahhhhhhhh!
 
 
The Strobe
12:06 / 24.08.04
In no particular order?

Linen suit.
iPod.
Airport Express.
Pair of Murrell trainers. In fact, several pairs of new shoes in general.
New suspension forks for bike. In fact, I pretty permanently want a new bike, full stop. There is nothing wrong with my current one (bar its horrid forks).

How trivial and consumerist I am.
 
 
The Strobe
12:08 / 24.08.04
And bengali: yes, the collar-flaring is all, isn't it? I have a friend who has a wall covered in retro tracksuits. He seems to live in them.
 
 
w1rebaby
12:11 / 24.08.04
I still want one of these, even though they've been around for a long time.



N.B. iPods are not unnecessary.
 
 
Timelord
12:30 / 24.08.04
Argh! I didn't even know those existed, and now I NEED one.
 
 
Jack Vincennes
12:34 / 24.08.04
A bottle of apricot brandy, a Motorola V80 and...



a little cuddly ninja.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
12:37 / 24.08.04
You may think its cuddly now but I assure youthat one day it will totally flip out and kill people.
 
 
illmatic
12:59 / 24.08.04
Various books and videos on *cough* reality-based martial arts *cough*. Not only are they unecessary, on some level they're unacceptable.
 
 
illmatic
13:10 / 24.08.04
You may think its cuddly now but I assure youthat one day it will totally flip out and kill people.


That's exactly what I'm talking about.
 
 
w1rebaby
13:26 / 24.08.04
OMG OMG

I can get a refurb 17" Powerbook with a gig of RAM for the same price as a new 15 incher. Slightly less, actually. But I'll have to order pretty soon, or someone else will buy it.

I do not need this computer at all. I "need" it, but I don't need it.

What am I going to do? *bites nails*
 
 
Jack Vincennes
13:53 / 24.08.04
one day it will totally flip out and kill people.

Always a danger. But I don't think I could stay angry with it.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:15 / 24.08.04
One of those keyboards, I'm not sure what they're called, which aren't actually made of plastic and stuff but which are projected onto your desk- IN BRIGHT FUCKING RED!!!- and then read your key-presses through infra-red stuff.

I can't think of a single reason to get one. For that matter, I can't think of a single flat, clean surface in my house onto which it could be projected.

BUT I WANT ONE, GODDAMMIT!!!
 
 
The Strobe
14:18 / 24.08.04
That's exactly what I'm talking about.

"Cuddly" and "ninja" are words one could with varying degrees of accuracy apply to Illmatic.

"Small", however, would be just be wrong.
 
 
flufeemunk effluvia
14:34 / 24.08.04
OOH OOH on Stoat's note, how about that awesome flexible keyboard? You cna SLAP people with it.
 
 
Bed Head
15:43 / 24.08.04
I’d like a dune buggy. And a remote beach, and a few nice days and clear nights. And maybe, I dunno, a fishing rod or something. And the ability to grow a full beard.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
16:00 / 24.08.04
A car. I just had to scrap my old mini (*sob*)

I am so hearing that. I love driving, my car is dead, sometimes I drive my brother's underpowered VW Polo and it doesn't accelerate. I want my car back.
 
 
Catjerome
16:09 / 24.08.04
I can't believe I just bought this.



But it's so cute! Aaah! There's no way I can ever be unhappy toting anything Hello Kitty around.
 
  
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