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Posted 9:59pm pst, Sunday, January 23, 2005 Uncool
I've been looking at the mp3 blogger's and critics' top ten album lists for 2004 and I've determined, I'm not cool. After reading about Arcade Fire all year, I've tried and tried to get into their stuff, but to no avail. It's just not my thing. Same for Interpol or Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. These guys are everyone's favorite band, but they don't do a thing for me. Maybe I'm just getting old. It was one thing when I despised POD, Good Charlotte, Maroon 5, System of a Down, etc. Those bands legitimately sucked. But these bands aren't awlful. The Libertines, the Hives, Scissor Sisters, Pedro the Lion... they just don't get a rise out of me. I guess I'm just not cool enough to like them. Speaking of overrated: the Garden State soundtrack. An album of a bunch of old Shins material. Now, I LOVE the Shins, but these tracks have dust on them. If you want a cool fucking soundtrack, try the SpongeBob Squarepants disc. New material from the Shins, Wilco and the Flaming Lips. Only SpongeBob could get these bands to contribute new stuff to his soundtrack. Zach Braff couldn't hold SpongeBob's jock. As perfect as Apple is, sometimes, their shit goes wrong. A couple of weeks ago I got an error message as I opened iTunes. My data file had been corrupted. Shit. It didn't mean that I had lost my songs, just a shitload of my playlists. Those of you with iPods know what kind of shit that can mean. When iTunes finally did open, it reverted to a playlist that was months old. In other words, songs I had deleted were still listed and hundreds of songs I had added did not appear. Now, the actual songs were still in my iTunes Imported Music folder. But now I had to figure out which ones were missing from my library and re-add them. A shitload of my playlists were gone, so I had to recreate those, including three massive mix folders. Took several evenings to sort it all out. As shitty (how many times can I use "shit") as this was, I actually was pleased with the results. The corrupt data file forced me into doing some iTunes clean-up and housekeeping. It also got me to subscribe to .mac to back-up all my data and sync all my info. Funny that Apple's fuck-up end up putting more money in their coffers from my .mac subscription fee. Coming sometime this week: The Self-portrait Sketchbook... along with an explanation of what that means. Stay tuned.... Looks like I've maxed out on my server space, so I had to dump the Sarge archive. Had a good run, but it's time to move on. Redesigned the Photologue and added the picture above. Now the jpegs are a bit bigger. Hope you like the new format. Johnny Carson, rest in peace. You were a true gentleman.
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