Are we what we are?

Principessa this morning:

• You are a drum. Nanny is a giraffe. I am Principessa.

So there you go.

I went a bit ITunes crazy yesterday. After playing GH, some of the tunes have become so ingrained that I need to listen to them some more. I bought some Muse, Heart, Killers and Weezer (though not the song on GH3, but 'Gone Fishin''). And because I just love the video, and I'd never bought a video for the ipod, I got 'Here We Go Again' by OK Go. Such a good vid, and there is an advert on TV that copies it, though I can't remember what for. Ah well.

Rousseau is still feeding my brain at the moment. It's all very interesting reading (oooh, here's a song I haven't heard for ages - 'All I wanna do' by Heart. Love a good rock ballad, me! Sorry for the interruption!) and it is churning the creative juices, though what Rousseau has to do with robots - I have no idea! Wow, six months ago I never thought I'd be talking about Rousseau and how his mental ramblings would inspire me. I didn't know who Rousseau was, let alone be thinking of studying more philosophy. Hmmm.

Music, electronic cars and disappointment.

Downloaded onto Ipod:

1. OPM – Menace To Sobriety
2. The Cure – Greatest Hits
3. Norah Jones – Come Away With Me
4. Dr Seuss – The Cat In The Hat; 9 Stories Audiobook
5. Adam and the Ants – The Very Best Of…
6. Del Amitri – Twisted
7. Sisters Of Mercy – Vision Thing
8. Operation Ivy – Operation Ivy: Energy
9. Spinal Tap – Spinal Tap
10. Harry Connick Jr. – When Harry Met Sally
11. Counting Crows – Recovering The Satellites
12. Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
13. Counting Crows – August And Everything After
14. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Anthology

So, electronic cars. Great idea for reducing pollution. That is always a good thing. But I’m not sure what I think of this one. As soon as I saw it I immediately thought of the cars on Demolition Man (probably because I watched it last night. I had forgotten Sandra Bullock was in it). Okay, so cars should look good, but I’m not sure that I like the space-age look of the Alias.

I’ve been posting recently about things I’ve put onto the Ipod (like today). While this is all well and good, I am so not impressed with the Itunes store. I thought I’d have a nosey around to see if I could buy an album by a Japanese band I like called Triceratops. So, after looking through the UK Itunes store and being unable to locate it I noticed that I could browse Itunes stores in other countries. So I pulled up the Japanese Itunes, found the album, clicked ‘Buy now’. But guess what. I was denied! Yep, because you can only buy albums from your own country’s Itunes store. Ridiculous or what? I thought the whole point of the internet was to allow for ease of data transfer, good or bad. No, there are still restrictions. And I am mightily piddled off with that!

Principessa is, on the other hand, mightily happy with her new, working LeapPad. She has already decided that ‘Madagascar’ is her favourite interactive book. She even enjoys lugging the LeapPad, books and cartridges around in the backpack that I bought for it. I am very happy that she likes it all.

Well, I’m off for now. Going to watch the end of the Biathlon Men’s 10km Sprint.