The Good Stuff

• Crisp autumn days
• Blue skies
• High altitude, panoramic views
• guitar-driven and live music
  
• black coffee
• good wine
• sports, predominantly hockey
  
• spicy ethnic cuisine
• no humidity
• copyright models that appeal to Napster-spoiled GenX/Y's
• chicken skin
• good video games
• disruptive technology
• artistic use of language
• down-to-earth types
• to-do lists
• bullet points
  
• black and slapstick humor, parody
• open markets
• philosophy and existence/knowledge
• woodwork
• matte
  
• california portions
• sci-fi
• small friendly suburbias
  
• sensible sustainability / responsibility
• special people
• corny jokes and terrible movies
  

The Whopper of Digital Music Downloads

http://davematthewsband.shop.musictoday.com/Product.aspx?cp=1_5575_8857&pc=DMDD16

I just bought this baby --- it's a $49.99 digital music download. Crazy? Not quite what you might think. Let's spec it out:

• 3 consecutive full-concert recordings totalling 55 tracks, over 5hrs 20min of music!
• Lossless FLAC encoding, aka CD-quality
• No Digital Rights Management (DRM) that would prevent portable-device use, or burning
• Downloadable CD labels, tray inserts and booklet
• That means we're talking roughly $0.90/track.
  

Not bad for some real hi-fi digital download goodness...

Amazon MP3 Store

I bought my first MP3 from Amazon's Digital downloads store today in 256kbps vbr mp3. It's the Slip's Even Rats track for $0.89. It's from Guitar Hero I's Bonus Tracks, and it's awesome.

In case you're wondering, it sounds great! And no DRM!

Full of id3 metadata too, so your music play will know what's going on.

Amazon.com Song ID: 201727212

tiny cities

I took an overnight flight from las vegas to philly last night. the coolest thing was that the electrified city strips seemed to bubble up out of the earth's crust like they were the yummy marshmallow-lava center of an earth-cookie.