Faith No More are also currently organising a USA tour. Stop asking.
For the first time I seriously thought about buying an album on iTunes instead of the CD. I was tempted by Weezer's new album, in particular, the iTunes Pass I'd seen advertised. You can apparently buy a pass to the album which sets you up to receive bonus tracks each week until the album arrives. Sounded good. Except it's USA only. None of the articles talking about this ever mention that.
I vote for either global record deals, or to include the internet as a separate global "country" when organising those deals. I don't care how hard it is, figure it out.
Working with a "web designer" who designs in Photoshop is like working with an achitect who designs buildings that would only work in zero gravity that can only be built with materials that don't exist (like human sized spider silk or see-through steel).
Everyone is so excited by Windows 7. "Everyone" being the media. I still see no compelling reason to get it. Unless it was free. Maybe not even. Which reminds me of an article I read about fruit vending machines in schools. They've taken them away because they weren't being used and the fruit was going off. I wonder how many people would get Windows 7 if it was free? It does gets my vote for using a number instead of a name. I think I'll wait for Windows 7.1.
I bought a few CDs recently (plastic round things, DVD players can play them, they're cool, try 'em out).
Jonathan Coulton's "Best. Concert. Ever." is one of the best live CDs I've ever heard, and I haven't even watched the DVD yet. The new Diablo Swing Orchestra album is fantastic, if a little strangly mixed (electric guitars, drums, violins, horns and opera singers really do have trouble being heard together). New metal is new metal. I'm a little disappointed by the new Dethklok album, but that was expected. Rodrigo y Gabriela decided that two acoustic guitars are a little dull to listen to even when being metal influenced and awesome, so they try to make it different by playing with the mixing a little, much to my irritation.
Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" was way more normal than I expected. The way it was talked up I expected it to be written entirely in French and be mostly numbers. But then I'm a regular reader of Greg Egan so I suppose I had good training.
Lots to do around the house. So far we've had time to talk about it. Thankfully we'll be getting help this week and we might actually get something done. But what colour?
Jesus was not the only person with a beard and long hair.