OFF: a lesser side of [napster] and other grumbles.

[DASLUD at AOL.COM]

well, it's friday night, so i figure i'd crank up the napster, while having
some laundry and dubbing a bid for the daughter of an old friend.

i had an eclectic brew downloading:

*sing sing sing - BENNY GOODMAN (a very long version)
*tv eye - THE STOOGES (yeah yeah, i have it on an old cassette)
*stewball - PETER PAUL & MARY (my mom had this album when i was a kid)
*Tennessee birdwalk - BLANCHARD & ...um... (silly kinda country song circa.
1970)
and, heh, as it had been discussed here on the board recently...wait for it...
*chirpy chirpy cheep cheep - MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
the kind of song i could play once and trash...
=
so i punched 'em all in, still unable to get proper versions of 'get away' by
flipper and harry belafonte's 'zombie jamboree', which had previously been
incomplete or 'error -40'.
and i looked in vain for the long live 'house of the rising' sun, mastuh
theo...coulda sworn i had seen a 9 minute version awhile back
as i prepared to return to the vid i was dubbing, i received what looked like
a napster 'instant message', apparently from the napsterite from whom i had
selected 'chirpy x2 cheep x2'. i didnt know that was a feature of napster.
i didnt wish to be rude, so i answered a few brilliant questions like 'have
you heard of bill haley, danny &the juniors, do you like elvis, etc etc'. but
after uneasily answering a standard AOL chat room 'age/sex/location'
question, i politely excused myself and finished up that vid. the mp3
download could percolate on its own.
so.
when i returned to check on the downloads, there was a small clump of those
'instant messages' waiting for me.
'you nasty c*nt'
'you f*cking hippy'
'i bet you like boys'
and the download of 'chirpyx2 cheepx2' read 'failed', suggesting to me that
the messenger had gone offline...oh well, i'll have to snag it some other
decade.

the download of 'sing sing sing' took app. 2 hrs; as i waited i watched the
end of that _godawful_ '100 best hard rock bands' special. nothing like
historical sub-revisionism with a bunch of used-to-be's providing commentary.
(well, okay, there was one or two sentences from lemmy re: metallica). had
hawkwind been on that list? the list was at #15 when i started watching.

i've gotta envy those blokes downloading their mp3s w/cable connexions
=zip!!=
i have learned that napster can be very discouraging. oh well, the music is
free; at least until it's not free, at which point i'm an ex-napsterite.

i'll be away from the machine here from sunday to the following monday,
visiting my sister in richmond, va. i'll be well-fed, and well _baked_ too.
oh please...heh...

dont y'all miss me all at once.

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