Tag: iPod
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The Song Sometimes Remains The Same
OK, now I know my iPod is screwing with me. I have it on ‘shuffle everything’ mode, and it just played All I Really Want To Do by Bob Dylan (from the 1968 album Another Side Of Bob Dylan), immediately followed by World Party’s version of the same song (from the 1986 album Private Revolution). [Out of interest, Dylan does it better…] Now, I know there is a 1-in-7,807 chance of this happening – small but plausible – so I could accept it, but yesterday it played The Mission’s version of Like A Hurricane (from The First Chapter, 1987) followed… Read more
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An Apple All Day Keeps The Boredom Away
Now this is why I love technology. This weekend I picked up an Apple AirPort.   This is handy little gadget that lets you connect your PC to your stereo wirelessly. It’s a pretty good device, and in theory very simple to set up – it will effectively set up a home wireless network for you just by plugging it in. Unfortunately I already have a wireless network, which kind of confused it, and my wireless network is achieved though the use of a wireless router and not a wireless card in my PC itself (big difference, apparently). The instructions that… Read more
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Phased by the Big Note
A couple of weeks ago I received a pre-release copy of the eponymously-titled debut album by new band Dead Heart Bloom. I’ve had it on heavy-rotation ever since, and a mighty fine album it is, too. Dead Heart Bloom is the latest musical vehicle for the implausibly-talented Boris Skalsky. This is the same Skalsky who was one of the leading lights in Phaser, the DC-based band who released one great album (Sway) before unfortunately imploding under the combined weights of commercial and artistic pressures. Phaser are usually categorized as ‘post-shoegazing’ (you tell me…) whereas Dead Heart Bloom are effectively uncategorizable,… Read more
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Now where did I put my ipod-ready Gucci loafers?
This Christmas I (and around 14 million others, if the figures are to believed) bit the bullet and joined the ipod bandwagon. I’d resisted for a long time, reasoning that I could play MP3s on my all-singing-all-dancing HP iPaq 4700, but the 4Gb card in my iPaq was full, and an 8GB card costs more than an actual ipod. Naturally, I plumped for the top of the range model – a 60gb ipod video (in black – you never really get over Goth!). I really can’t see myself watching videos on it, but the color screen does display the album… Read more