My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

A few months back I managed to get a hold of some cheap cd's that I was backing up my music collection onto. Some of them turned out fine, some of them didn't. I couldn't for the life of me figure it out - but as luck would have it I have now worked out the problem. The dodgy ones have a hairline fracture in them - apparently my new car CD player won't play any cd with a hairline fracture in it. So back to drawing board I go.

Sure, I could always just keep the originals and use them all the time - but it's a much better idea to ruin a $2 copy than a $30 original. Besides - if I have original cd's in the car - then there's something worth stealing. I can't see anyone breaking into my car to steal the cd player - the resale value on a cd player that is only good for my car wouldn't be to high. Although, as someone did suggest, criminals aren't the brightest people, so maybe I should put a sign on it saying "Don't steal my cd player unless you have a Toyota Corolla owner to sell it to!" - then again, knowing my luck the criminals will be illiterate as well (much like myself going by this garbled entry)- and then where does that leave me?

I don't know why I was freting so much about having to install the cd player in the car. Norm took one look at it, ripped out the dash, and whacked it in in a couple of minutes. I couldn't even work out how to rip the old one out. Then again, the past few days I haven't even been able to change a light globe - but in my defense - the light globe is possessed by satan! by satan I tells ya!

Radiohead's new album is pretty good. Sure they're a tad bit depressing, and at times can shit you to tears with their excessive static noises and weird interludes, but hail to the thief is a top notch album. Placebo's "Sleeping with Ghosts" is another good album I got recently - it's more laid back than some of their previous efforts. It was funny the first time I listened to my copy of it at my parents place - my father commented on the "English Summer Rain" song "it repeats over and over again". I was trying to explain to him that that's the point - "English Summer rain, always lasts for ages..."

My biggest troubles this week (other than the fact I'm running out of work to do, ran out of yoghurt to have on my cereal, ran out of bread for lunch) are trying to work out what CD's are car worthy, and what ones aren't - I'm like a lil' kiddie going through all the old stuff, reliving my childhood through music....ahhh the memories....