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Name: Alyx
Birthday: 8/25/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: I don't know how describe my interests in a little box. I like making pancakes. I like going to the theater. I love dancing. I like staying up all night to read a book. I love Princeton. I love ballet. I like being too hot to move. I like watching snow fall while I'm wrapped in a quilt or someone's arms. I like ice cream. I love Starbucks and Barnes and Noble. I like colored pencils. I like chocolate. I love shopping. I like Europe. I like orange and pink, but not together. I love London. I love Shakespeare. I like Focus Films.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Research
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  alyx825
Member Since:
5/29/2005
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| So what is it about actually owning a CD? Believe me, I am by no means against downloading music, and I do it all the time. But there's still something better about actually going somewhere and purchasing a CD. I was thinking about it today as I was pipetting and listening to my ipod. I got a lot of CDs from Princeton Record Exchange last year, and I was thinking how efficient it would be if I bought the CDs, put the music on my computer, and then brought them back, got store credit, and then purchased more CDs with that credit, etc. But then for some reason I still want to own those CDs. I don't know why. I have the music. I bought the CD. It's the best of both worlds. I pretty much never listen to CDs (except when I'm home and I have a car, but then I usually make mix CDs anyway...).
Speaking of mix CDs, I was also thinking back to the era of mix TAPES, and what a commitment making a mix tape would be. All your music is on tapes (or 8-tracks???), so you need a double cassett deck, and then you have to sit there and song by song, hit "record" and exchange tapes and everything. It seems like so much work compared to just throwing together a playlist on iTunes and burning it. And what if you mess up halfway through the tape? Then you have to go back and fix it. Today I suppose it's still cute to make mix CDs for various people in your life, but I can't help feeling that a mix tape had so much more sentimental value. It's a one-of-a-kind.
Cassetts and 8-tracks must feel like the ultimate rejects of sound-recording media. CDs, while being somewhat outdated by mp3 files, are hardly disappearing from the market. And records of various kinds and sizes are still around because they are so undeniably cool. But tapes and even more so 8-tracks are simply lame. 8-tracks are extinct and tapes are quickly dying out. I suppose the novelty of a tape was its size. It's much more practical for transportation than a record. Other than that, I can't think of a reason why people would switch to tapes. They are so hard to manipulate in terms of finding a track. Just holding a record, on the other hand, is far more exhilarating. I read somewhere about how records are better because they record the "space" around every note, something that digital recordings get rid of. I don't know that my ear is sophisticated enough to process the advantages and disadvantages of a note's space, but I do know that even though the technical sound quality of a record is not as good as a CD, I still love listening to records.
Okay, clearly this post is because I'm bored at work. | | |
|  | Currently Watching
V for Vendetta (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
By Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Rupert Graves, Roger Allam, Ben Miles, Sin�ad Cusack, Natasha Wightman, John Standing, Eddie Marsan, Clive Ashborn, Emma Field-Rayner, Ian Burfield, Mark Phoenix, Alister Mazzotti, Billie Cook, Guy Henry
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Yay! I'm so happy! Gabe and I went to get V for Vendetta today, and then we watched it. Now I am watching all the special features on the second disc, and therefore don't have time to blog.
Except to say that my head is no longer stapled together.
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| I can't sleep. For the past two nights I've had a really hard time
falling asleep. I don't know why. All I can think about is how much I
miss Princeton.
Okay,
I realize that it is only just a little after midnight, and therefore
it is not as though I am having terrible problems falling asleep. Gah.
I'm just tired and I would like to sleep. Help. | | |
| alyx825 (6:47:32 PM): alice. you just posted a reply on my lj while you were talking to me, didn't you
stardustfactory (6:47:44 PM): hahahahahaha. yes. | | |
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Star Trek - First Contact
By LeVar Burton, James Cromwell, Michael Dorn, Alice Krige, Michael Horton, Neal McDonough, Gates McFadden, Marnie McPhail, Robert Picardo, Dwight Schultz, Adam Scott, Jack Shearer, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Eric Steinberg, Patrick Stewart, Scott Strozier, Alfre Woodard, Patti Yasutake
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I just got a really really cute bikini. It is orange with black polka dots. I love it.
The
lasted injury-induced problem with my life (have you been noticing a
trend? All I do these days is bitch about the hole in my head) is that
I can't eat very much at a time. My mom thinks this is because of
tension. I'm not sure what causes it, but as a result, I can't eat very
much. I'm down to 86 lbs, which is way too light for me. During the
year I'm almost ten pounds heavier than that. Gross. | | |
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