Category: Music

  • The iPod’s between a quarter and a third full, and it’s getting daily use.What’s getting played? Interpol, "Antics" and "Turn On the Bright Lights." Almost every day.  The hype’s well-founded–don’t let it deter you.  I don’t hear the Joy Division echoes so many others seem to.  More like Television without the solos, or the Buzzcocks…

  • That’s where I’m living at the moment.  Obsessed with copying CDs to iTunes and loading up the iPod.  The laptop’s getting dangerously full of digital music–it’s a three-year-old IBM with something like a 12GB hard disk.  Well, I was planning to get a new laptop anyway, because I’m changing jobs–um, I hope I’m changing jobs…

  • The contrast between the suckiness of 2004 in general and the perfection of today in particular is, shall we say, stark.  Woke up and had a beautiful, quiet time unstuffing stockings and unwrapping packages with Amy.  Highlights include getting an iPod, which lives up to the hype and then some (Amy got the HP version,…