Friday 10 November 2006
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Pic of the day: Today I joined MSN Music. Yes, they are predators, but they are CUTE predators! Legal, cheap musicToday I found out by accident that MSN music lets me play anything from its supposedly 1 million tracks for kr 79 (barely 10 Euro) a month. How cool is that? As expected from Microsoft, the paragons of enlightened self-interest. Yes, my fad this forthnight is spending money. This happens from time to time. At least I got the new and cheaper credit card in time. (Also, today is payday, two days early!) And this spending is moderate indeed, and I can make a lot out of it. Although I think those 1000 000 tracks are mostly 990 000 flopped tracks by the major labels which they could not get sold otherwise. There are some current hits though. And for all I know, humans may have such bad taste that much of this has actually been sold at some time. Humans and bad taste surprise me as much as sunrise and sunset these days, it sometimes seems. And there are some wonderful songs that I have found on last.fm, now I can play them whenever I want, over and over, instead of waiting till they come up by themselves. Yay! Needless to say, I am milking this for the novel. Yes, the novel. I have not given up yet! Muahaha! Take this verse for instance, from Don McLean's song "If We Try". It so totally describes how my male main character feels about his best (female) frined. Awesome. I could not have said it better myself. (So I quote it in the novel. I believe this is fair use, and every word helps. Besides, it is really that good.)
You're walking a different direction from most people I've met. (Don McLean - If We Try.) It doesn't hurt that the last line in particular is exactly how I felt about my best friend too. Without too much comparison otherwise, of course. I don't write autobiography for NaNoWriMo. I write autobiography right here. |
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