Back to fun-with-iTunes...
I notice that, because there's no Internet connection, iTunes has no information about the artist, song titles, etc. I right-click on the first track (so far known as "Track01") and bring up the song info dialog. Here the song title, artist and other fun stuff can be entered. In quick succession I type in the song names, moving to the next track via the amazingly logically labeled "NEXT" button. After the last song is entered, I click "OK".
By this time the CD import is about finished. Just then a dialog box pops up telling me that I'm running low on battery power. A quick rustle through my bag produces the power cable thingie. Ah, but guess what? This room, being part of a 200+ year old inn, doesn't seem to have any three-pronged outlets.
Except for in the bathroom.
Now I'm sitting on the edge of the bathtub with the laptop balanced on my knees (at first the computer was on the toilet with me squatting down in front of the bowl...my knees lasted about a minute, plus, I felt kinda stupid). Finally the Bjork CD finishes. My scotch-enabled stupidity allows me to repeat this process with the Mountain Goats' All Hail West Texas.
The last step. I plug in my iPod, wait the pathetic minute or so it takes clunky old Windows 2000 Professional to recognize this event, and the sync process goes on its merry way.
Hmmm...Drawing Restraint 9 seems to have ten songs titled "Track01" through "Track10", followed by the last tune, "Antarctic Return". That's funny, All Hail West Texas has the same problem. This might be a) an unfortunate bug in iTunes b) a Microsoft 'innovation' or c) a bad mix of technology and single malt. Since I don't have the answer (and really, what good would it do me?) I just retype the song information and perform an iPod resync. Halle-freaking-lujah, there's Bjork and the Mountain Goats in my 'Artists' list!
Exhausted and bewildered, I slip into bed to read an essay by Elizabeth Spiers about how blogging is dead. The Mountain Goats provide the soundtrack (it was kind funny to hear Darnielle singing "Hail Satan!" with thoughts of this technology skirmish so fresh in my head).
Article comments
1 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
fantastic as ever, Sir Saleski. to the best of my knowledge the Bjork flick is directed by the fella who did all that Cremaster malakey, which lasts the guts a six or eight hours, but you can only get half an hour of it on DVD. she's married to him, it seems. who knows what it'll be like? maybe it'll provide an answer to the highly perplexing question regarding why i get so, um, excited by that peculiar image on the cover of Medulla.
2 - Mark Saleski
yea, i know what you mean about that pic.
buy the way, i should have added that if you sit on the edge of a bathtub for 30 minutes, your ass will fall asleep.