bleah

[freckles_and_doubt]

Yow. Last night was not a good night. Went to bed around 11pm, woke up at 2am, could not get back to sleep again. Lay awake until 5.30, at which point I summoned the gumption to crawl out of bed and dose myself silly on muscle relaxants. Woke up with a hell of a jump at 9am, feeling obscurely guilty and very, very zoned. Managed to do DT today, but not much else.

Life's little ironies. My copy of Radiohead's OK Computer will not play in my computer CD ROM drive. I can't work out if this is an accidental irony or a deliberate statement on the part of the band.

Wolverine_nun, lovely lady, found me a copy of Murakami's Norwegian Wood. Shall read it when I've caught up on sleep.

Comments

Not OK Computer

[bumpycat.livejournal.com]

Well, apparently EMI Music Canada (Radioheads label) is producing copy-protected CDs. You could try holding down shift while inserting the CD, but I suspect your best bet is to download the mp3 from somewhere. Funny, isn't it? Copy protection forces you to get your music from an illegitimate source.

Your sleep patterns are ... disturbing. I mean, I just skip on sleep. That way, when I do crawl into bed, my pathetically grateful body just zonks out until the alarm wakes me again.

Re: Not OK Computer

[(Anonymous)]

...an illegitimate source like me!
Erm, yes, I have nice-quality mp3s of OK Computer, if you'd like them :)

I have just started reading Norwegian Wood. I'm finding it really beautiful, and very sad, which is mostly why it's so beautiful :)

vera

Re: Not OK Computer

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about MP3s, my copy plays perfectly well on a CD player, it just scorns computers. Inevitable, I suppose.

Hmmm. If Norwegian Wood is sad, I may put it off a bit. Still not sleeping properly, and lack of sleep makes me prone to depression anyway. For some reason, I spent most of last night on the run from the police. Long, involved dream entailing climbing down the outside of buildings (I diagnose too much King Rat) with a small bag containing my worldly possessions, and hiding out on Lake Malawi as a waitress in a hotel, while classic American buddy-cop-movie overweight policemen ineptly pursued me. Too exhausting.

Re: Not OK Computer

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I don't know why it's just this damned CD, all my other Radiohead albums play quite fine, thank you. I scorn illegal MP3s. Mostly because I have a slow dial-up, but also because they're illegal and unkind. The irony being that, of course, one ends up stealing from the artists one most admires. Just say no to cosmic irony!

My sleep patterns are disturbing because they have no pattern. I am a small fluffy bit of thing on the eternal shifting winds of wossname. *starts new religion*

Re: Not OK Computer

[(Anonymous)]

They're actually not illegal mp3s. I got them off the OK Computer CD so I could listen to them at work (I can't listen to CDs on my work comptuer because the drive makes so much noise as to interfere with the music). I don't see a problem with listening to mp3s of music you actually *own*. The only "illegal" mp3s I listen to are mp3s of music I can't get hold of - like most of the Japanese stuff I listen to :P Eventually I'll get hold of the CDs... hopefully...
vera

re: starts new religion

[(Anonymous)]

"You appear to be starting a new religion, would you like some help with that?" - annoying talking paperclip from Windows 2098 Memetic Edition.

Totally off-topic, but your comment reminded me so strongly of the above quote - from Gurps Transhuman Space(THS) - the best hard sci-fi post-cyberpunk rpg setting I've encountered - highly recommended :)

Hmm, Ok, it can be related to the topic, as THS has one of the main ideologies being Info-socialism, i.e. ripping MP3's isn't theft - "intellectual property is theft", and creative folk should be supported from the public purse. There is a cold war between the WTO copyrightist countries and the blockaded info-socialists. Very plausible I'd say.

A

Re: starts new religion

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

*grin* I do like that. If the current talking paperclip ever said anything half so amusing, there might be hope for Microsoft.

Rules Of Thys Blogge: you don't have to be on topic. Topic, so done. Besides, randomness is an essential tenet of my new religion, didn't you notice...? :>