February 20, 2005

• Crapulous.

  
  

  I've done nothing today that I didn't want to. The house is a pigsty. I've spent hours online and ignored pretty much every other person in this house, including the kids -- except for about an hour before bedtime.

  
  

  I've been pleasant to the hub, firm but non-engaging with the kids, and it feels... evil, wicked, and good. Today I didn't give a rats bum about anyone but me. I slept in till 9am, made my own coffee, chatted with the kids and then just... absented myself.

  
  

  I've been writing (nothing I'd put out here, oh crapulous-spoutings-of-my-burnt-out-mind) and downloading music. I know - the rest of the world has discovered downloading music simply ages ago - but up until about a week ago (pre Hub losing his job, I point out) I bought a new computer. The first in 10 years. How embarassing. And doubly embarassing that since I built said old computer myself - I hadn't bothered with a sound card. I can be a bit of a puritan, you know. So downloading music, watching videos - I never did it. Ever. I couldn't burn a CD to save my life.

  
  

  But ho ho ho... now I have Limeware - a really good little program that basically lets you download anything you fancy. Got a hankering to see silly English commercials - just search. Wanna see Paris Hilton's infamous sex vid? Click a button.

  
  

  So being the Luddite I am, I am merely using it to download music. And absolutely NOT cool music - this is music listened to by people who still re-live the horror of being left alone at a high school dance when your friend went off and danced, music for people who kissed the tail end of the 60's and realised it tasted like Alice Cooper.

  
  

  Seriously forlorn stuff. So far, I've downloaded Iggy Pop, CCR, Tom Petty , Nina Simone, Billy Holiday, Peter Gabriel, Laura Nero, Bob Dylan, Jimmy Bufffett, The Band, The Four Tops, Robert Palmer, Talking Heads, The Jam, Bodeans, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Hiatt,  Mahalia Jackson, Elvis Costello, The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Cars and er.. The Partridge Family ("I Think I Love You" if you really must know).

  
  

  I managed to stop myself before I downloaded The Monkees "Steppin' Stone", sweet jeebus be praised!!!

  
  

  Anyway, I've always loved music and it's so damn expensive here in Oz. CDs are close to $30 a pop due to import taxes. So it has to be pretty special for me to buy it. The last CD I bought in this country might have been some Neil Young thing, but truth is, I am not sure.

  
  

  I am not necessarily the person whom that list above implies. I like all sorts of stuff and some of it is retro and some of it is new and most of it sits comfortably inbetween. I wouldn't say I have great taste in music, but I don't think it's bad. There's no Backstreet Boys, Yanni, and Enya in my collection. There is Metallica, Lenny Kravitz and Frank Sinatra, however. Sue me.

  
  

  On the other hand, I do have Kings of Leon, Nine Inch Nails, Scissor Sisters and Good Charlotte so I am not completely out to pasture. No matter what thatdownload list makes out. It's pretty humbling acutally - to look at that list and think 'oh my gawd I am so completely and utterly uncool'. I was once pretty damn cool ya know. Now I am the sort of lamebrain who actually keeps a Korn CD in my collection so I look cool. Well, cool-ish. Well, interesting for my age, anyway. Well... probably a sad try-hard to the 20 year olds next door. I do know this in a secret part of my brain, honest I do.

  
  

  Tell me what music you download and why.

  
  

  Help me expand my horizons. Before my kids grow up and realise they are doomed to play The Byrds when their friends come over.

  
  

  PS. It's too late to stop me downloading William Shatner's definitive version of 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'. It is so awesomely bad, so outlandishly freakish that it will reduce you to tears. It's the entire title of this post.

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