Hoobastank: No, I don’t like this band. As you probably know, iTunes has a great little feature that allows you to share your music collection with other iTunes users on your local network. If your local network reaches only as far as your front door, checking out your “Shared Libraries” probably isn’t all that exciting. [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2005
Other People’s iTunes
29-Mar-05Jackpot
20-Mar-05Today, my friend Ian packed up his things and headed back to England. We’d fallen out of touch over the past couple of years, but Friday night we had the chance to catch up again. It was good to see him before he left. The following is part of a longer piece I’ve been working [...]
This week, I received notification of my high school reunion via email. “Weplanreunions.com,” an online company that apparently plans high school reunions, would like me to log on to their site and enter my mailing address and phone number so that they may send me a formal invitation once details have been decided upon. Isn’t [...]
The Devil Went Down to Fox 5
10-Mar-05Have you seen the recent ads for Fox 5′s morning show? Of course you have; the all too well-composed image of Jim Ryan, Jodi Applegate, Mike Woods, Chris Galius, and Lucy Noland is plastered on every banner, ever poster board, every train platform that the MTA offers as advertising space. Maybe they’ve targeted the 2/3 [...]
Vote LBJ, or The End of Lethargy
07-Mar-05A few weeks ago, I wrote about how a shift in my musical tastes has left me thinking that I must be getting old. Since then, whether by simple coincidence or subconscious effort to recapture my youthful ebullience, I’ve gone through a bit of a personal renaissance. Instead of the usual weekend activities, which usually [...]