Tuesday, February 22, 2005

 

It's better to play in a band than with yourself.

(Title of today's entry is from Grease 2. Seen it?) I managed to watch Slaughter's Big Rip-Off, and Black Mama, White Mama before my wife asked if I was going to hide and watch blaxploitation movies all weekend. Um...I guess if that's not an option, then no... So we did couples-type stuff after that, which isn't a lot different from what you do alone, except there are more positions. (Just a suggestive joke after a three-day weekend. Forgive me.)

I'm in the process of updating my iPod software, which shouldn't be a problem, except we have dial-up at home, and the program takes between 5 and 7 hours to download with dial-up. My wife instead downloaded it at her office in 15 minutes and burned it onto a disc for me, so I can update it tonight. Our server at work has a lot of blocks on it, so we can't download things, for fear of a big hulking virus. By the way, I'm updating my iPod because though I've had it for quite a while, I've never even glanced at the iTunes store to purchase music for 99 cents. I have a $15 card that came with the iPod, and I figured I might as well use it. But I started browsing the store and couldn't think of anything I was looking for. The most downloaded songs list didn't inspire me, and for some artists, my collection is better than iTunes, which might have one greatest hits album by a band, while I might have all eight of this band's cds, and I'm looking for some b-side.

I'm polling for good suggestions for books to read. Anyone read anything worth recommending recently? (Don't say DaVinci Code. I'm not reading that.)

Comments:
Good Books: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and Welcome to Hard Times by E.L. Doctorow. Also, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgokov. Not Good Books: Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus; my mom's diary.
 
More Good Books: Mind Over Matters by Mike Nelson, A Year at the Movies by Kevin Murphy, and anything by Alton Brown (his latest being I'm Just Here for More Food). If you're in the mood for Star Trek, I highly recommend Federation by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens.
 
Thanks for the ideas, guys.
De: I'm an MST whore, so I've read Mike and Kevin's books. I liked Mike's a little more, since you couldn't really read Kevin's all at once, or it got too repetitive.
Lauren: You don't know, I might LIKE your mom's diary.
 
You might. Or it'll warp you for life, like it did me.
 
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