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Yay, the music thingy on the left works. It was easier than I thought. It’s not very efficient, but oh well. It works.
You know what’s great? Rediscovering music that you used to love. I keep finding old music that I used to listen to on repeat, for hours at a time. A lot of it is stuff that I always heard on the radio, or stuff I just forgot about. It’s funny. This stuff is great. Yay for early 90’s rock!
I’m talking about:
Radiohead
Bush
Counting Crows
Fuel
Tom Petty
Oasis
Nirvana
U2
Wallflowers
Soundgarden
Everclear (So Much for the Afterglow)
Smashing Pumpkins
The best thing is that you can get all these not-too-old CD’s on half.com for about $2 each. It’s not that difficult to find quite a few of them brand-new, in the shrinkwrap. Sure, a lot of them are comps, but who cares. If I went to buy these CD’s in a store, they’d be $18 each. Meh. Yay for the RIAA. Yay for the big record companies.
checks prices Yup, Amazon.com would like to charge me $14 for the same CD that just cost me $1.50 on Half.com. Not to mention that shipping on Half.com is cheaper, and that Half.com doesn’t charge me tax and Amazon does. Oh, and Amazon is happy to tell me that they’re saving me $3 off the list price of $17. Thanks, but no thanks.
Enough venting. Today was a fun day. I went to the Beverly Center! I didn’t really want to go to the mall or anything, but it was really nice to get away from USC and this area of LA. We (Max, Susan, and I) took the MTA there and back. It was an adventure both ways. To get there, we waited about an hour in the cold across the street from Exposition Park, because the bus was really late. Heh. It was OK though. We got there, we walked around a bit, we ate at P.F. Chang’s (score!), we saw a movie. Then, we tried to take the MTA back. I had schedules and maps all printed out ahead of time, and that’s good. Despite this, we missed the first bus I had scheduled… we couldn’t find the stop. Well, we did find it, just as the bus pulled away from it and past us, doing about 30. Oops. So, we sprinted to another bus stop that was a mile or two away. That got us home OK.
Now, some people would say that being lost around midnight and running around for the MTA is bad news in general. Nah. It was fun. It might’ve been a little stressful along the way, but, well, there it is. When I think back to these times a few years from now, I won’t remember the midterms, or the lack of sleep, or the food, or any of that stuff. I’ll remember running around Beverly with my friends, trying to catch the MTA home. That’s what life is all about. #