Wednesday, January 03, 2007
New Year Mega Post
So it has once again been several months since my last post, but then again I've never been good at keeping diaries calendars or records. I thought that I would do a mish mash of things that I've been doing over the last couple of weeks, so here goes.
I was lucky enough to receive a sexy new black ipod for Christmas, I've had a 3rd generation white ipod for a couple of years now but my music collection has long since outgrown it's 20 gigabytes of space, and the fact that I couldn't carry all my music around at one time meant that more often than not I just didn't use it at all. My new 80gb neatly solves this problem and should allow me some breathing space before I have to upgrade again.
It wasn't all smooth sailing though, my music collection resides on my Windows desktop and getting my iPod to work on it was a frustrating exercise. When I say getting it to work I really mean attempting to as I eventually had to pack it in and instead transfer my 50gb of music to my Mac laptop, where as is the Apple way it 'just worked'
Anyways the upshot of all of this is that I've been listening to a lot more new music. One of my recent finds is Gary Jules, perhaps rediscovery is more accurate, his song "Mad World" probably isn't instantly recognisable but you would have heard it on an ad or two recently or perhaps on one of the new years retrospectives. I first heard it in Donnie Darko and both the movie and song touched me more than usual. And it's funny because I think it's the lyrics that really get to me, and it turns out that it is actually a cover of a Tears for Fears song! I've been listening to it on a continuous loop and I never do that with songs. I usually prefer the whole album listening method. The film clip for the song is here
Podcasts are another revelation or rediscovery the iTunes store has such huge selection of podcasts everything from Chaser videos to a weekly rap up of stories from The Economist (My current favourite new source apart from the BBC) - I can see reading this again in half an hour and thinking I sound like a pretentious twat. Pretentious twat sounds quite pretentious now actually, getting recursive here..... Ricky Gervais has 3 free podcasts up at the moment that are worth listening to, very funny show with his co writer Steven Merchant and their mate Karl Pickering who I feel manages to steal the show with his deadpan act.
I think I'll leave this here for the moment and hopefully come back tomorrow and continue....
I was lucky enough to receive a sexy new black ipod for Christmas, I've had a 3rd generation white ipod for a couple of years now but my music collection has long since outgrown it's 20 gigabytes of space, and the fact that I couldn't carry all my music around at one time meant that more often than not I just didn't use it at all. My new 80gb neatly solves this problem and should allow me some breathing space before I have to upgrade again.
It wasn't all smooth sailing though, my music collection resides on my Windows desktop and getting my iPod to work on it was a frustrating exercise. When I say getting it to work I really mean attempting to as I eventually had to pack it in and instead transfer my 50gb of music to my Mac laptop, where as is the Apple way it 'just worked'
Anyways the upshot of all of this is that I've been listening to a lot more new music. One of my recent finds is Gary Jules, perhaps rediscovery is more accurate, his song "Mad World" probably isn't instantly recognisable but you would have heard it on an ad or two recently or perhaps on one of the new years retrospectives. I first heard it in Donnie Darko and both the movie and song touched me more than usual. And it's funny because I think it's the lyrics that really get to me, and it turns out that it is actually a cover of a Tears for Fears song! I've been listening to it on a continuous loop and I never do that with songs. I usually prefer the whole album listening method. The film clip for the song is here
Podcasts are another revelation or rediscovery the iTunes store has such huge selection of podcasts everything from Chaser videos to a weekly rap up of stories from The Economist (My current favourite new source apart from the BBC) - I can see reading this again in half an hour and thinking I sound like a pretentious twat. Pretentious twat sounds quite pretentious now actually, getting recursive here..... Ricky Gervais has 3 free podcasts up at the moment that are worth listening to, very funny show with his co writer Steven Merchant and their mate Karl Pickering who I feel manages to steal the show with his deadpan act.
I think I'll leave this here for the moment and hopefully come back tomorrow and continue....
