Ba-domp
Should be on my office wall. Instead, is nowhere. I am still transferring MP3 files from CD-R's (the contents of my former computer's music folders) to the PowerBook. It's taking forever and it's incredibly boring. And although I've learned to tolerate the unspoken vagaries of iTunes' organizational system, as well as appreciating our common anality, this doesn't make the exercise of transferring and organizing files any more exciting or wonderful. Also, I get the displeasure of watching my harddrive space decreasing and wondering to myself, "Do I really need all of this crap? How long has it been since I listened to X dumb song?" I'm guessing that I have about 15 GBs worth of MP3 files, which is nothing to some of you, unfathomable to others, and just plain old disappointing to me. What a waste of space.
If I weren't one of those people who likes to have music playing pretty much constantly, I'd reconsider. However, the situation is made even more exasperating thanks to fact that, although I like music as pleasant background garble, it's pretty rare for me to actually sit down and listen to it or appreciate it. So I don't even have the excuse of being one of those, "I seriously couldn't live without music, dude!" people. That said, I am an obsessional neurotic who collects stuff only to never use it, assuming that one day the stuff's grand purpose will reveal itself and I'll ascend triumphantly into heaven (followed by a procession of the hundreds of stupid things I've accumulated). It's not good to be an obsessional neurotic in the digital era; sure, the stuff itself might be evanescent, but it still takes up space in one way or another.
For example, do I really need or want these Duran Duran songs on my harddrive? Do I even like them? Well, no... not really. But the likelihood of my doing anything proactive about it is nonexistent.
And here's a question: how would one go about copying DVDs if they only have one DVD drive in their laptop? This practice is somewhat baffling to me. One of my ex-roommates from last year returned from Christmas break with a brand new laptop and was somehow able to burn copies of commercial DVDs with it. I know that it's a stupid question, but how is this even possible? Do you transfer the files from the original DVD onto the laptop (are there even 'files'?), then stick in a blank DVD disc and burn the data from the laptop? This is the only way I can conceive of doing it. Or am I just crazy?
Whatever. Computers are complicated.
I'm going to watch The Rules of the Game, just because I have so much fucking work to do and I feel like spitting in its face. Take that, work! It'll be so hardcore when I wake up tomorrow and realize that I only have myself to blame!
ADDENDUM (11:19 PM):
A recent comment response to d_trevor has inspired me to purchase a Rita Hayworth pinup poster for my office. This would be in the best possible taste, considering that everyone likes looking at Rita Hayworth, and its vintage classiness would nicely offset the fact that I also have a poster for the gay porno A Man's Tail hanging in my office. Thrilled at this new procrastination-mission, I boldly set out on an Internet search for a poster-sized pinup of Rita (specifically the famous 1941 Bob Landy photograph, but I wasn't all that picky), and came up with nothing. Even ebay was discouraging. All of the pinup-style photographs were 8x10, and all of the poster-sized material was for specific films.
I'm surprised. I figured that the schmaltzy popularity of The Shawshank Redemption would've provided a reason to print replicas of the vag-hole that masked the escape-hole in the film. Hmph!
- JJJJS