Foxworthy Brand Beef Jerky...

Hi.

I've been gone a little while, four months to be exact but I'm coming out of retirement (wearing the four five) and I'll do my best to keep the Chronicles strong. Boy oh boy do I have some stories for you. I'm going to try to keep things short and sweet and frequent rather than long and few and far between. Lots of random good stuff, for starters...

The reason I came out of retirement today was to share my new foavorite thing in the world: hearing the needle or other distortion from a record palyer while listening io MP3s. The music in question is Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet. For those of you who aren't familiar with this sound I hope you hear it one day. Basically it's caused when a record is transferred onto a harddrive and converted into an MP3, that way someone with an extensive record collection can listen to their music on an ipod without rebuying everything. The best perk of this soon to be over high profile internship (inhale) is the amount of music I've bben able to take off of the various harddrives throughout the office, and put nto my own itunes library. That's where this Miles Davis song I'm listening to come from and in the last I've nearly doubled my music, which means now I need an external harddrive but I have some tunes to listen to while search for it. In January, one of my first days at the internship, I got talking to the local content editor about the new Bloc Party CD. He said he really liked it (advanced copy) and I said I was excited to hear it when it came out. Then he told me not to wait and handed me the CD. I bet I listened to it ten times that week, not so much for the music itself but for the advanced availablity of the music.

As I type this I'm at the internship and the same local content editor, a guy whom I've been reading for years even before this internship was an option, is walking around the office offering everyone some Jeff Foxworthy Brand Beef Jerky. Not a bad way to break up the monotony of the midday slowdown.

I'm posting this without spellchecking. Caution, meet wind.

More to come...