04/03/09 – apple iphone

today i wiped my bum on the apple iphone ad that ran on back page of 'the independent'. i love my apple ibook and if i had the money i upgrade to a top spec mac desktop jobbie not to mention a brand-spanking top of the line laptop; both would be packed with key software. while i am at it can i have a pony? (the pony reference is from the ever funny ‘calvin and hobbes’.)

while doing the do i was reading a recent copy of ‘the wire’, i had bought it because it contained a cover cd. i used to buy it regularly, pretty much just for the reviews. i would read them and make notes on the cds that appealed and then start to see where i could get them. sometimes i would just get them from http://www.roughtrade.com in brick lane. mostly my purchases would be made online from one of three sources: play.com, http://www.othermusic.com/ or amazon. to be honest i am a reluctant user of amazon, i have no rational explanation for this, it just is. other music is based in new york and is a great little store and the few times i have been to new york city i head there and treat myself to a bunch of cds. if they have what you want in stock then their mail order is pretty special. mostly i used play.com.
‘the wire’ magazine appeals to the more adventurous music lover, someone who is prepared to take a chance on a new sound. not all that appears in ‘the wire’ is any good, in fact a lot of it is shite, but the readership is very eclectic so one reader’s shite is another’s gold.
one of the things i like about the reviews in ‘the wire’ is hardly a month goes by without a new release from merzbow or john zorn, currently all that means is that there is another title to go on the ever growing wants list. there was a merzbow review in the issue i was reading. there was also a listing for a new frank zappa release, which is pretty impressive since he is dead, but this is by his estate and includes lots of unreleased material from the ‘grand wazoo’ sessions. it has gone straight to the top of my wants list.
thank you ‘the wire’ for bringing it to my attention.

another thing that happened while using the independent as toiler paper was i had an ‘eureka’ moment. i had been trying to remember the name of an ex-colleague, for a few days it wasn’t there. a few moments on the bog and bang there it was. a quick shout out of the name the whole thing is forgotten again.
then it struck me if i can have ‘eureka moments’, true they are not important in the grand scheme of things but they are for me, imagine what could have happened if archimedes had been blessed with indoor plumbing?
go on just think about it.
next time you sit on the toilet just think about it. you know it make sense.


to view apple products go here
read 'the independent' here
have a look at 'the wire' here
play.com can be found here, while amazon is over here
other music can be found here while rough trade is here