update.

I hope the new year found you in a good place (as opposed to curled up in a ball on the bathroom floor praying that you don't have alcohol poisoning from the 50 million shots you did with your friends)

I've been offline for a bit. My laptop died (for the fifth time in two years) and I have been working on projects that kept me away from the computer.

Apple computer made a very happy customer of me when I called in and explained what had happened to my laptop again. They offered to give me a brand new machine from the current line up with the one year warranty in place. So, they are replacing my 800 GHz G3 iBook with a new 1.2 GHz G4 iBook (more powerful than my desktop).

I'm pretty happy about this. Good things all around.

In other news,

I've been checking out some new music lately.

The Dresden Dolls gothy punk rock cabaret. Coin Operated Boy is playful and tickles my funny bone every time I hear it.

M83 According to pitchfork they are experimental/ dance. Sure. Why not. I dig it. Don’t ask me why, maybe it is the noisy guitars and interesting progressions. Just sayin'

Opeth Alright, so I don't have a clue what the guy is actually saying, but the guitar work is so good, I almost don't care. Almost. Call me odd, but I still want to know what the guy is saying even if I'm not gonna sing along to it. For all I know he might be reading out of a cookbook (like "How to Serve Man")

The Birthday Massacre Another band that I just dig. Although, as strange as it is, I might dig them more on headphones than played over my stereo.

There are a couple more, but I already mentioned Stavesacre and my abiding love for Switchblade Symphony.

More in a bit, I need coffee.