My obsession du jour

I'm up way too early today. Why? Because I need Morrissey tickets. I NEED them. His last show sold out in like half of a millisecond, so I need to be on the ball when the Boston date goes on sale. I may even become one of those annoying fans who runs up onto the stage and hugs him, sobbing uncontrollably as security drags me away.

In other music news, I got me an iPod. Oh, I love the iPod. I was amazed to discover that its sound quality blew away my Creative Zen MicroPhoto. To the point where I heard instrumentation in tracks that I never knew was there. Apparently Apple's done a lot of improvement in the sound department over the past three years, because when I bought my last player iPod was universally bashed for its poor audio quality. Also? I love podcasts. I love podcasts soooo much. PBS and NPR to go? Sometimes in video form? Yes, please. Random people sitting in front of their computers making talk shows that run the gamut from insightful to laughably moronic? What's not to love? And they have What Not to Wear?? Shut UP!

I'm a bit ashamed to say that I'm so infatuated with my iPod, because on general principal I dislike Apple intensely. They steal ideas (more so than even Microsoft), wrap them in pretty interfaces and multi-million ad campaigns, and artists/designers are such frickin' snobs when they talk about their Macs (because the Apple commercial told them that you can only do boring business tasks on a PC, so it must be true). And working in a digital photo lab that runs on Apple equipment, I've come to absolutely LOATHE the hoops that you have to jump through to make certain things work, and/or figure out what's going wrong when something doesn't work.

But I have to admit, they got it right with the iPod. Totally intuitive interface, the aforementioned great sound quality, and a syncing system that I actually like and can trust not to leave me with five copies of every song.

And now I'm off to hopefully obtain the coveted Morrissey tickets. Wish me luck!