The Pod, etc.

My faith in human­ity has been revived, a lit­tle. Last night a guy thanks me for let­ting him down­load a God­speed album on WinMX: an admirable ges­ture by itself. We get to talk­ing about music, and I hap­pen to men­tion Ween. He shares my fond­ness for the band, and goes on to say that The Pod is his favorite album of theirs. I tell him of my woes in try­ing to down­load that album over the past few months, hours of effort that have resulted in acquir­ing a lit­tle over half the tracks (not to speak of whether they were incom­plete or oth­er­wise flawed). He tells me that he’ll rip his copy of the album and share it, so that the next time we’re both signed on it’ll be ready for me. After a few more min­utes of talk he decides to rip it imme­di­ately, post­pon­ing his across-the-pond bed­time to has­ten my long over­due expo­sure to the album. Long story short, some server prob­lems result in my get­ting two tracks and being bit­ter for the rest of the night. I buy the album today to the great delight of the employ­ees at New­bury Comics, only to come home and find this same guy telling me I could now suc­cess­fully down­load it from him. Irony costs $15.99.

Chances are you haven’t seen this Honda com­mer­cial, in which case you’re really miss­ing out.

So you like Johnny Depp, but you’ve been antic­i­pat­ing for years the day you’d get to see him in a pur­ple top hat? That day is not far off, as Tim Bur­ton directs Johnny Depp in Wonka: 2005. The movie Tim Bur­ton was born to direct, finally.

I remem­ber find­ing this really amus­ing when I first saw it.