17 Sep
Zune HD has been released in the US. I am going to put this on the must-buy list next time I return home.
Gizmodo declares it the “best touchscreen PMP on the market.”
For us international folks, we will have to content ourselves in the meanwhile with the Zune software.
14 Mar
I’m on the airplane, flying across the International Date Line as I type this. Finished watching “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” for the third time. It has a great soundtrack; I suppose one could say it’s all indie bands.
I had an amusing conversation with my ex-girlfriend about music while at dinner the other night. She [...]
19 Nov
Well, I guess it’s demonstrating more features than the original Zune commercials (which I thought were cool but rather abstract).
23 Oct
First song that came through on my MP3 player when I arrived in Taipei was Camera Obscura’s “Let’s Get Out Of This Country”
I am pleasantly surprised that they are going to be playing in Singapore on October 29. Sadly I do not have tickets to their show.
Anyway, per the song title… I have jetted [...]
14 Oct
A friend of mine recommended a song to me today and I have been playing it nonstop. Happy music streaming through the ears while walking home from work is a great feeling.
It’s the song “Little Bit of You in Everything” off The Rentals’ album “The Last Little Life.”
19 Sep
One of my favorite songs.
The video is of Erlend Øye from Kings of Convenience doing a cover of it. Originally by Big Star and also covered wonderfully by Wilco.
12 Sep
From Wired:
“While iTunes serves up a text list of recommended songs within your library and from the iTunes store, adding to the more basic recommendations its MiniStore feature used to make, Zune reinvented the recommendation concept by collapsing artists, albums and fans into the same recommendation engine, more accurately mirroring the way people think about [...]
5 Sep
I like the band The Karl Maka (hello Jon), and I like Debbie. The band performed “A Song for Debbie Wong” recently at Baybeats.
26 May
One of my favorite groups is coming back with a new album. June 3, 2008.
Here’s their video for Pork and Beans. Must watch.
