Back With Blurred Eyesight
Well, first of all, I am posting again after a delay of over 15 weeks. Yeah, I suck, but in a good way. I have been making notes about what to blog about and if I make good on all of these suggestions I've made for myself, I'll be giving you all sorts of constructive ranting. But it is Sunday morning and I haven't read my Best Buy circular yet, so here goes.
The blurred eyesight is a result of a mishap during my retinal checkup over the past week. My doctor puts a special lens on my eye so he can see the blood vessels inside and determine if any further laser treatments are needed. As sometimes happens to contact lens users (of which I am not), my eyeball got scratched. Wasn't that much of a bother the first day but then it got infected. I just thought it was bothering me, so upon the doctor's office's advice, I bought some lubricating gel to help the healing. That was three days ago, and it's been hurting more ever since. I just got off the phone with the on-call eye doctor to prescribe me some antibiotic ointment, and I'll be picking that up when I go buy my paper. Arrgh.
Music stuff:
Rumor has it The Beatles and Apple Computer are coming close to a settlement on their dispute over the name 'Apple". A settlement of over 20 million dollars was paid to them years ago and an agreement was made that Apple would not start a music company, but you'd have to be hiding under a rock for the last three years to see that Apple now makes the world's most popular portable music player and has the biggest and most widely used music download service. If the rumors are true, The Beatles company, Apple Corps, will get a settlement of historic proportions, previously associated only with class action lawsuits, and Paul McCartney may end up being a member of the Apple board of directors, which now includes (shudder) former vice president Al Gore. Will all Apple users have to "go veggie" now?
Depeche Mode will be releasing an album of remixes in October. From the band that practically invented the marketing plan associated with constantly remixing their work (sorry, Puffy/Diddy/Sean/whateverthe f%*& your name is), this should be really cool stuff. The preview track, a version of "Enjoy The Silence" mixed by one of the guys in Linkin Park, ROCKS. But looking on their site, most of the tracks are previously released remixes going back to 1981, which the diehard fans (myself being one of them) have bought at least twice already. Only a handful of the 20 or more tracks that they are releasing as part of this whole project (2CDs, bonus CDs, limited edition singles, etc.) are newer than 2001. Another marketing ploy. What, you don't have enough of my money yet? I want a check from Dave Gahan for helping to finance his heroin habit a few years ago, and while you're at it, do the same for a hundred thousand or more of your other fans, One other thing would be nice - a formal apology for Dave Gahan's solo album. Can you say suck? No, not in a good way.
The blurred eyesight is a result of a mishap during my retinal checkup over the past week. My doctor puts a special lens on my eye so he can see the blood vessels inside and determine if any further laser treatments are needed. As sometimes happens to contact lens users (of which I am not), my eyeball got scratched. Wasn't that much of a bother the first day but then it got infected. I just thought it was bothering me, so upon the doctor's office's advice, I bought some lubricating gel to help the healing. That was three days ago, and it's been hurting more ever since. I just got off the phone with the on-call eye doctor to prescribe me some antibiotic ointment, and I'll be picking that up when I go buy my paper. Arrgh.
Music stuff:
Rumor has it The Beatles and Apple Computer are coming close to a settlement on their dispute over the name 'Apple". A settlement of over 20 million dollars was paid to them years ago and an agreement was made that Apple would not start a music company, but you'd have to be hiding under a rock for the last three years to see that Apple now makes the world's most popular portable music player and has the biggest and most widely used music download service. If the rumors are true, The Beatles company, Apple Corps, will get a settlement of historic proportions, previously associated only with class action lawsuits, and Paul McCartney may end up being a member of the Apple board of directors, which now includes (shudder) former vice president Al Gore. Will all Apple users have to "go veggie" now?
Depeche Mode will be releasing an album of remixes in October. From the band that practically invented the marketing plan associated with constantly remixing their work (sorry, Puffy/Diddy/Sean/whateverthe f%*& your name is), this should be really cool stuff. The preview track, a version of "Enjoy The Silence" mixed by one of the guys in Linkin Park, ROCKS. But looking on their site, most of the tracks are previously released remixes going back to 1981, which the diehard fans (myself being one of them) have bought at least twice already. Only a handful of the 20 or more tracks that they are releasing as part of this whole project (2CDs, bonus CDs, limited edition singles, etc.) are newer than 2001. Another marketing ploy. What, you don't have enough of my money yet? I want a check from Dave Gahan for helping to finance his heroin habit a few years ago, and while you're at it, do the same for a hundred thousand or more of your other fans, One other thing would be nice - a formal apology for Dave Gahan's solo album. Can you say suck? No, not in a good way.
posted by Bill @ 3:30 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home