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Lightening

Wednesday, 19 December, 2007

10 days of silence. Over the weekend, our internet went on the blink. Ben says it was to due with some crazy lightning strike which fried our wireless router. The modem still works but it blinks in some of deranged way like an escaped mental asylum patient. Today Ben came home with a router and modem all in one, and a shiny case for his old hard drive. Now I feel like a kid in some sort of store because I'm copying almost his entire music library onto my computer. (But not Stryper. Not ever Stryper.) For the past couple of years—ever since my dad gave me a Sony MP3 player—I've been using SonicStage to manage my music because it's the program that works with the player. But it has problems: you import CDs and it converts them to .oma ATRAC files (which don't work on anything except Sony). It would keep crashiong at the end of Cerys Mathews' Never Said Goodbye and in the middle of a live Milla Jovovich track. Every now and then it crashes for no reason, and my entire operating system freezes. Since Ben's already done all the violent ripping and burning, all I need to do is transfer his gleaming MP3 files over, and then I can start again in iTunes. Or Windows Media Player. Or whatever takes my fancy. I could even sign up with Last FM and have Guan pay me out about Lindsay Lohan and John Mayer.

I love what Bec has written about musical DNA and how you take on the music of your friends. It's certainly true of Ben and I; Guan can laugh at my getting The Decemberists and The Dismemberment Plan confused, and thinking that Okkervil River sound a bit like The Cure, but I'm guessing that the majority of my readers aren't indie enough to know who most of the bands I mentioned are, which makes me more indie than mainstream, and utterly unable to have a “normal” conversation about music with the general public. “What sort of music are you into?” “Oh, I like Andrew Bird, Joanna Newsom, A Northern Chorus, The Twilight Singers ...” “Who?” Being into indie is such a conversation-stopper ...

(P.S. Larissa and Matt have some exciting news!)

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