posted 2005/03/08 at 16:15
No snow last night, but the temperature must have dropped twenty degrees between the time I left the house yesterday and when I got back five hours later. I needed a couple of days here at home to take care of things anyway. I've already started some much-needed spring cleaning, and soon I'll be tackling all those big projects I'll have to have done by the end of the semester.
Yggdrasil has a voice once more, as Sunday night I bought Logitech X-230 speakers and got them installed. Even with the subwoofer turned off on my system, though, I'm getting way too much bass and not enough treble for my liking, even when I play a CD through them and not MP3s. That being said, they're good speakers, and even though I didn't want to shell out that much cash for speakers for my computer, at least now I've got a decent sound system on my computer again. On a related note, I've been giving some thought to signing up to MusicMatch On Demand so I can gain high-quality access to their new age radio stations. That feels so geeky, though, and not even the good kind of geeky, either.
Speaking of music stuff and things to do over break, I finally gave Sarah McLachlan's Afterglow a listen today, and of course now I'm kicking myself for not listening to it earlier. Of course you should have a copy. As I was listening, though, I was realizing how consistent Sarah's songs are, but how she doesn't have that many songs that really hook me the way other artists do. I mean, if you asked me to name three Björk songs I couldn't live without, I'd come back with "Bachelorette," "Hyperballad," and "Harm of Will" without a second thought; likewise with Tori, I don't even have to think: "Hey Jupiter," "Here in My Head," and "1,000 Oceans." With Sarah, though, I don't know; other than the piano solo version of "Hold On" from The Freedom Sessions, nothing really springs to mind. Maybe "Steaming," I don't know. Of course there's "I Will Remember You" and "Angel," but those seem different somehow because everyone loves those. I don't know what's up with that.
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