Tidbits
These are just a few totally unrelated things I've been thinking about.For instance, this is something that's always bugged me. When you import an album into itunes, it displays it in reverse order, so if you're listening to things in your "recently added" section, you hear the record backwards. I understand that it's the nature of the process, last-in, first-out, but it's mildly disconcerting to those of us who pay close attention to albums as a whole and the order of songs, etc. I also realize it's easily remedied and that all I need to do is create a playlist, but sometimes I'm lazy and just like to let things play.
My Teenage Stride--"Reversal" mp3 off Ears Like Golden Bats (buy)
Did I call this or what? Last August I declared Robert Downey, Jr. should be nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder--and he was! I am very rarely right about that kind of stuff, so I'm quite pleased.
Tosca--"Oscar (Feat. Anna Clementi)" mp3 off Ultra.Chilled 04 (buy)
Speaking of movies, I saw Slumdog Millionaire last weekend and it was really good. But it was rather intense--much more intense than what you've probably been lead to believe it would be, considering that it's been touted as a "feel-good movie" and a "fairy tale." Let me tell you, there were several points where I simply had to put my popcorn down and stop eating. Now that's saying something!
The Eames Era--"When You Were a Millionaire" mp3 off Heroes and Sheroes (buy)
Finally, and I hate to be so judgmental, but this lady who had the octuplets? She already had six kids! Her mother (who is apparently less than fully supportive of her most recent decision) has stated in an interview that the daughter has always been obsessed with having children and has had them all through in vitro fertilization. I'm sorry, but there is something really wrong with this picture. First of all, what kind of fertility doctor would knowingly implant eight embryos in a woman who already had six kids? And how many children is enough? Some people would give everything they had to have just one.
Itunes sucks, and I hate that too. And I hate it when you change the name
of an mp3 and Itunes then shats itself and decides that mp3 doesn't exist
any more, and makes you go searching for it and importing it again. It's a
really, really crappy program.
Eight babies blew my mind and then to find out she had six already? I
asked a similar question as to the Doc and wondered if this might cause
some sort of regulation on invitro numbers etc.
agnes--you are the queen of understatement--"it is a bit of a worry." lol!
amen to that. about itunes, if i weren't so wholly invested in it (i have
over 14,000 tracks on it) i'd switch to something else, but at this point
it would take me two weeks to re-up all my stuff, unless of course my
husband could figure out some way to import whole libraries (which he
probably could). but i'm way to lazy to even investigate it!
I think I was trying to convey my opinion without being too judgemental! A
more accurate response would've been 'yep...she's nuts.'
That's the reason I haven't ditched Itunes yet either - I briefly tried
Songbird but it was going to be really time consuming and annoying to
attempt to transfer it all over. They've done that deliberately, made it
such a shitjob of a program that it proves to be too much of a hassle.
Cunning little weasels.
iTunes is shit, agreed. :-) I use iShit and Songbird currently. Eventually
when I get a new computer I will convert it all to Songbird, plus Songbird
is still in development... They will only get better.
Well, I call it fucktunes for a reason. I still use it but I also use (and
use more often, more and more) a great program called MediaMonkey. Email
me. It uses your music files in whatever form you create them. No
rearranging your library. You just make your files and it reads them just
as your computer would any other type of file. And MediaMonkey will read
flac, opp and all types of mp3/4 files. There's no importing. Although you
can convert anything into anything.
I know what you mean about Slumdog. It's not really feel good until the
very end. Throughout the movie it's pretty disturbing. Not an easy one to
watch!
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