...It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. - Nick Hornby, "High Fidelity"
so i'm kind of still in the process of setting up my laptop. right before the semester ended (but luckily after i had completed all my projects and papers) my test drive version of ms office crapped out on me... not a huge loss. it's always a pleasure deleting a ms product off of my mac. but huey is still coming home and asking me accusingly "why are you logged into my laptop?" he has all the cool programs like fireworks and the adobe suite which i do not have... and with two weeks of nothing better to do, i've been futzing around.
the cool thing about tonite though is that he finally set up the itunes list to share off his laptop and i'm in the process of downloading about 2500 songs over as i type... it's a modest start, nothing compared to the almost 6500 he has on his laptop, but then again i don't have a 120 gig external hard drive hooked up to my laptop for things like podcasts and iTunes music... so i'm doing what i can. i started by typing in -hip hop into the search bar and that took care of most of the music i didn't like. i also got rid of all the electronica genre because it doesn't really pique my interest like it does huey's. then again, i don't go on 26 hour caffeine-fueled coding rampages like he used to do on a regular basis. a few more cuts here and there (sorry christmas music) and i got it down to a workable playlist to transfer over.
anyway, after reading the above quote it's funny to think about our different tastes in music... and movies for that matter (yesterday was the confession of my period piece obsession). i think we definitely vary a great deal (i couldn't imagine huey rocking out to tori amos or even stop giggling when i mention her because i know he has torn anus running through his head)... but we respect each other's tastes. and lucky for him, i'm a cool chick that can appreciate a movie like the matrix or equilibrium or other action, gun-slinging, blow shit up flick... we've stood in line for midnite releases for many a movie, but i'm quite sure none of them have fallen anywhere near the realm of chick-flicks... so i guess it's fair to say that my tastes overlap his, and not really vice versa... but it works for us.
and speaking of my favorite movie, i spent a good hour or two today making a list of pride and prejudice sequel books that i'm going to look for at my local library. this was fun for me for two reasons: the obvious pleasure of reading anything related to what is also my favorite book, pride and prejudice... and the fascination i have with having a library card again. for more years than i care to think about, it's been my normal thought process to just buy the latest book that interests me at the nearest b&n without even thinking about whether i will reread this book or how much money i could be throwing away. it's a running joke that huey and i have that every time we walk into a borders or b&n we are lucky to walk out without throwing down $200... that's a lot on what usually turn out to be one-time reads. now i will be able to rent as many books as i want!! without paying a dime!! it's brilliant in it's simplicity... and i'm wondering why i didn't think of it sooner.
i also got some more pictures that i had printed at 11x14 in the mail from shutterfly today. they look so great and just completely renew my interest in taking pictures with my awesome christmas camera. i framed them up and can't wait to hang them around the apartment. i already hung one of my beach pictures in the bathroom and i lurv it so much... i wish i could take some credit for how good the pictures look but it's all my camera and the good prints. i just throw them behind a piece of glass and wha-la! next trick will be figuring out how to get some of those larger panoramic pix printed up, and to take advantage of flickr's (or qoop's technically) option to print a poster with up to 1000 images or something like that on it... seems pretty cool. technically if you had a LOT of free time and were creative enough you could lay those out in some kind of pattern to create some pretty cool effects... dammit, i DO have a lot of free time... patience may be an issue though...
