Turns out Eric Bana will not be playing James Bond, in fact, he has not even been approached about it. OH WELL, vote anyway!
So yesterday I threw on down 400 dollars plus tax for a 40GB iPod including a 4-year best buy service plan that covered the battery. Cha-ching. Normally it is 400 without the 40 dollar service plan, but thanks to my BB credit card, I received a 10% off coupon in the mail this weekend. I've only loaded up a few albums, I'm working on tag&rename'ing all my mp3's first. I guess ripping all my cd's to mp3 last summer actually pays off once you get one of them high capacity music players. Sweet.
I also bought the new Badly Drawn Boy album, One Plus One is One, which as far as I can tell so far is pretty good musically, and the jury (me) is still out on vocally. A few lines seem cheesy, but some are pretty good. Also, it seems like he's doing a bit more whaling, like he's not hitting notes on the dot or something. Slightly cacophonic or something like that. At first I couldn't tell if I liked that aspect of it, but I think I do. Heh. Either way, this album is not nearly as dissapointing as Have you Fed the Fish? was for me. I think Iain liked that album, so did Christine ... I dunno why I hated it. But yeah, 1+1=1, I'm only a quarter or a half through it as of coming into work day, and I'm very pleased.
I also bought the new Wilco album, A Ghost is Born, but have yet to open it/listen to it. Somebody told me it was good though. And I feel like I trusted that person, whomever they were. Eli? Maybe. Can't recall.
Time to do some work at work.
J
blast, and i was about to get you to sign up for the ipod pyramid scheme ;)
have you fed the fish was disappointingly lacking. a ghost is born has been on the wilco website in its entirety for a while now (i think its still there). it is pretty good.
-Grant-
hmm if you heard good about new wilco, it probably wasn't from me.
it's "all right." a few songs are really good. but as a whole, i'm not a big fan. worth a listen though to decide for yourself!
but i like the old days of wilco much better.
Well, now I realize it was either Paul Stoddard, Grant maybe had told me once before about how it was available for download, or my older brother. Whatever, I bought it. I've yet to listen.
Iain and I talked last night about you thinking we really liked HYFTF, so here I am checking out your site for the first time in a *long* while. So yeah, hey, long time no talk. How's life?
Anyways, I remember the first song I heard off HYFTF was "How," and that blew me away, and then you told me that the first few songs were awful, and I agreed. I can still listen to about half of it, but it just doesn't measure up to where my expectations were after HOB. I heard Pitchfork gave the new album a terrible review, but I'd still love to hear it.
This is unrelated, but you might be interested in reading this:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=33:6d77gjwro6pa
Was it you who thought the line was "finger me, baby"?
--Christine
p.s. Guess who's studying abroad in Germany in the spring?
Heh,
The new BDB isn't great, I bought it without hearing it first. It was sort of a wishful hoping of sorts. But it isn't bad, I can listen to it and it has a few good tracks.
Faith in me baby's just a waste of time, eh? I still think it sounds like Finger me baby. lol
Germany is cool ... I really want to co-op there. I just have to remember how to spreche Deutsche. Ja.
Let me know if it's badass, although, it'll be a year when you get back and we don't really ever talk anymore ... but whatever.
John.