But I do want something a little wild, so I trot off to an extravagant, high-end store in my neighborhood.
As year-end reports on 2011 emerge from companies and organizations around the world, an astonishing picture is building of extravagant, high-end Chinese spending that offers a glaring contrast to the hardscrabble, high-saving image of most Chinese.
He said in the monthly journal Comprehensive Transportation that China could have built an extra 30,000 kilometers of conventional track with the money saved from what he characterized as "extravagant" high-speed lines.
The whole package is a calculated paean to her down-home, self-reliant frontiersiness — an extravagant high-def remake of Bush's photo ops clearing brush at his "ranch" in Crawford, which in turn were an homage to Ronald Reagan's old horseback photo ops in his lush cowpoke digs in Santa Barbara.
But what I like most is that this rich, ambitious and very contemporary music has a flashy and aggressive drummer, Bjorn Heeboll, the kind of musician who, on songs like "Fading Colors (Bloomington)" and "Velveteenager (Minneapolis B)," tends toward extravagant high-hat fills and overcomplicated patterns.
But in the past few months they have experienced its downside, as the market's first ever bubble has popped.The gloomy mood in stockbrokers' offices is in sharp contrast to how things were early last year, when they were crammed with excited small investors, eyes glued to the giant display screens as shares hit ever more extravagant highs.
A few new lawyers will enter extravagant high-end jobs but most will find themselves in a Hobbesian universe where life may not be short, but it assuredly will be nasty, brutish, and low-paying.
Some may be extravagant, high-end studios, and many will be modest one- or two-room affairs, with varying equipment standards.
True playerism demands free time, extravagant pastimes, high culture and disposable income.
