w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

Today's lyric:
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"Hand out the arms and ammo
We're going to blast our way through here
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right
And you know that it's right."

Thunderclap Newman: "Something in the air"
From the album: "Hollywood Dreams"

With no social or diy-related committments at the weekend, it was a time for some new year pottering.

To free up some space in the tip that is the understairs cupboard, I relocated the cd collection (sorted by artist, of course) into another cupboard where they will no doubt moulder 'til eternity? Well, they're now all iPodded (and backed up onto a separate external hard drive, kept apart from the player itself just in case we get burgled.) I can't remember when I last extracted one to play?*

I doubt that - with my eclectic and small c catholic tastes, they'll be worth eBaying (and I don't know if I can be arsed to bag them up for posting even if someone bought one.)

Then in another cupboard resided my minidisk player, expensively bought for me as a 50th birthday present and flown all the way to Hawai'i and back for our musical entertainment. It sat there with about 50 recordings of cd's and compilations, with only a couple of live recordings left to convert to mp3 stylee. And given that the medium never really took off in a big way, that'll definitely be a non-starter in the auction stakes.

Finally, the relatively small dvd collection got re-organised. Again it struck me that with tv's now coming as standard with built-in hard drives, it won't be long before even the pc-less of us will be able to download programmes and films on demand from an on-screen catalogue, rather than having to put up with what's offered by the broadcasters?

* having said that, I've just ordered two albums which weren't available from the iTunes store

Labels: Musicology