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.