Why You Should Download The Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs EP

• It's Free
• It made one of my top albums of 2007
• It's fun dance rock
• Four new songs are easy to digest
• One of it's songs, "I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance" made mine and Pitchfork's (if my opinion isn't enough) top singles of 2007 list.
• Did I mention it's free?

Download the Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs EP NOW!!!

Currently Listening To:
Glen Hansard and Markets Irglova - Once Soundtrack - When Your Mind's Made Up

Favorite Tracks of 1/1/2008

A week late...

• Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass - None Shall Pass


• UGK - Int'l Player's Anthem (I Choose You) feat. Outkast


• Michael Cera and Ellen Page - Juno Soundtrack - I Choose You


• The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters - Cold Days From the Birdhouse

Currently Listening To:
DJ Muggs vs. GZA/Genius - Grandmasters - General Principles

iTunes is the bane of my existance

It all started when I decided to get Kelly an mp3 player for her birthday in November. Being such a huge advocate of my Rio Karma, which has been discontinued, I decided to research into something that could live up to such a device. After much research, I found that the Trekstor Vibez 12GB mp3 player was a great device that could live up to the greatness of the Rio Karma.

What was great about the Rio Karma? Better sound quality, an equalizer (that was not available in the iPod at the time of purchase in 2004), support of ogg, flac, aac, and non-stop playback, and not to mention cheaper than the iPod by about $100.

The case was still true for the Trekstor, sans equalizer, so I found a place online to purchase from. Unfortunately, since the product is designed and manufactured in Germany, there was only one or two places that would import it. After shipment I eagerly tried it out, but to my dismay, it didn't work, at all. Unfortunately the importer provided a poor return policy and for audio devices would not repair them, I decided to return the item for a refund.

After this fiasco, along with other birthday present failures, I decided to go with the fail-safe iPod Touch. If it broke, at least I could take it somewhere to get fixed.

I had installed iTunes a couple of times before, just to play around with it and didn't care for the software. I didn't care for its bundling of Quicktime and a few other features I didn't care for, but I thought I would take it all in strides to own this cool little device.

48 hours after installation, my computer ground to a halt. No response was able to be made, a total reboot had to be made. 5 minutes later after reboot, the same thing. I then rebooted again and tried uninstalling the last apps that were installed, namely iTunes. Problem solved.

Until MediaMonkey or the iPod Winamp plugin supports the iPod touch I unfortunately have to live with the uninstalling/installing of iTunes just to connect to the iPod.

As far as the iPod Touch, it's freaking awesome, a very cool little toy.

Currently Listening To:
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver - All My Friends