I mentioned today that Pigeon John’s new album sounds very “summery” to me.
Peter was baffled by the notion of music having seasons, but there’s always been music that seemed like summer or winter music to me. Gnarls Barkley’s ridiculously huge (although lots of fun) hit “Crazy” was a definite summer song this year, for instance, full of make-you-move music and a real sense of fun.
In contrast, last fall and winter, I spent a lot of time listening to the quietly moody Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie and, sure enough, as the days rapidly grow shorter again this year, I’m listening to the Postal Service cover of “Against All Odds.”
Is this a manifestation of seasonal affective disorder (I become a grumpy grumpier son of a bitch in the winter, normally), or are there others out there who find they enjoy certain types of music more on certain times of year? (And no, not Christmas music.)
From Wired News:
Facing up to competition from cable and dish providers at one end and from the likes of Microsoft and Apple at the other, TiVo will now offer web video podcasts sourced from both major networks and subscribers.
The video is free of the DRM yoke and requires the $25 Plus codec pack for TiVo’s Desktop media management interface. Deals with CBS Interactive, Reuters and Forbes have already been struck, meaning that TV and news will be among the first available content bridging these companies’ websites and your DVR.
Nice!
I can’t imagine the $25 buy-in will last very long.
TiVo-owners, check out Tiki Bar TV when this gets added to your box. (I know, it’s not the trendiest of video podcasts, but it’s popular for a reason.)
For the first time ever, I’ve received a jury summons. This is what happens when you stop moving constantly!
I’m curious if they’ll end up using me, or if the lawyers will all decide they don’t want a newspaper reporter on the jury. We’ll see on December 11.
Yes, it’s more than a month away, but let’s not wait until the last minute, shall we?
Idea #1: A Virginia Tech garden gnome!
Not that I had time for it this year, what with the election and all (a bumper crop of election-related stories is coming to the paper next week, starting with a chopped-up and cleaned-up version of the story we posted Tuesday night as part of our all-day coverage), but I totally forgot that National Novel Writing Month was this month.
I have two “serious” books I’m still doing research on (one of them a memoir of someone I haven’t yet broached the subject with, oops), but I figure next year, I might as well knock out “The Unicorn Hunter” for NaNoWriMo. As Peter can ruefully attest, knocking out 50,000 words in itself isn’t a daunting task for me. (Creating a novella good enough to be published in, say, the very literary Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, though, that’s another question entirely, especially since it’s been at least 10 years since I submitted any of my fiction to a publisher.)
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