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.

Music, Art and Over The Hedge.

Music/Stuff uploaded to Ipod:

1. Transformers Score – Steve Jablonsky
2. Sweeney Todd Soundtrack – Stephen Sondheim
3. CD5A (TMA02 Help and Advice) – Open University
4. Le Sacre Du Printempts; Firebird Suite – Stravinsky (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
5. Hits (free CD with newspaper) – Lenny Kravitz
6. Greatest Hits – Red Hot Chili Peppers
7. Greatest Hits – Guns ‘n’ Roses
8. Best Of – Def Leppard

I’ve been working through Block 1 of the OU course. The first block looks at art history, poetry, listening to music, and philosophy. As I’ve been learning more about poetry over the last few weeks (thank you, Mr Stephen Fry!) I feel pretty okay about the poetry part of my next assignment. All I have to do for that part is write it out in some form of coherent analysis now. I’ve worked through the art history unit, though I think I may have to re-read some of it before I attempt to gather my thoughts about the painting we have to analyse – Picasso’s Girl In A Chemise. I’ve not even ventured into looking at the music and philosophy parts yet.

Principessa woke me this morning by reciting parts of ‘Over The Hedge’ in a loud, screechy voice! It’s strange being woken up to “I’d be much less scared of it if I knew what it was called.” “Let’s call it Steve.” “Steve. Steve’s a nice name. I’m much less scared of Steve.” She is currently watching The Simpsons, the one where Bart falls down the well, and eating Milky Way Stars.

Mum has just come to tell me about further family history. She has traced it back to William Tressider who was born in March 1681. That’s some way back!