Better Living Through Introspection

I won’t tell you the question

But my magic eight-ball (i’m sure there should be a ™ or an ® there somewhere…who makes these things anyway? Mattel?) answers “It is certain,” so there’s something to look forward to.

What brings a smile to my face

On this oddly disjointed day where I feel compelled to do not much more than breathe?

1. An unexpected a cappella version of the Indigo Girl’s Galileo. The wonder of it all.
2. Stephen King’s On Writing. I read the first half, which is less about writing and more about his life, and it’s like touching base with some things I had conveniently forgotten.
3. The new John Digweed double-cd (Global Underground 19 : Los Angeles).
4. You, not knowing who you are.

I don’t normally do this…

Because I hate to seem as though I’m promoting someone else’s product, but if you like trance/electronica/ambient whatever you want to call it, there is a free two-hour-long John Digweed mix on sonicnet.com. Of course I had to order the CD right away. Don’t fall into that trap like I did. Let my example be a lesson.

But it is Digweed.

Who says the government doesn’t have a sense of humor?

From the Library of Congress Copyright Office Frequently Asked Questions:

58. How do I protect my sighting of Elvis?
Copyright law does not protect sightings. However, copyright law will protect your photo (or other depiction) of your sighting of Elvis. Just send it to us with a form VA application and the $30 filing fee. No one can lawfully use your photo of your sighting, although someone else may file his own photo of his sighting. Copyright law protects the original photograph, not the subject of the photograph.

28 Days

Until the big three-oh. And only 30 days until the big par-tay.