No one is trying to sue me for crashing into a car anymore. There are still stupid people in the world, they are just not trying to get money from me. Right now. I write fast but I listen to slow music. Spiritualized does not rush, instead they sound like they are standing in the middle of a late summer haze on the American west coast. It so sound heavy and light at the same time, and I am not sure that is what I am looking for in music but right now it feels pretty good. I've been running, through documents, through cities, through my mind and here on the other side the sun is shining and the summer I declared being over exactly two weeks ago is still here. I just never paid attention to it. But it stayed, throwing sunbeams at me, trying to get me out to a park. But I said no. But on Wednesday it is suppose to be 28 degrees. Then me and summer will hang out again. Like old friends that passed each other by to many times without giving each other time.
Summer is over and it is here. Warm and sunny, blowing past the canals in Amsterdam. I am back again, I've been back many times now. I leave and I come back, and that is how I live, have been living. Am living. I'm eating Skolekridt, licorice candy that I bought at Copenhagen Airport for my last Danish money. I eat them without stopping, a constant flow of candy entering my mouth, like a chain smoker who makes love with a cigarette. I make love to licorice candy that look like small chalk board pens. I was gonna offer some to my friends that are helping me move today. But there is one hour left and only five pens. They're southerners anyway, what do they know about licorice?
Summer came to Amsterdam again. But I missed it. Sitting inside with my coffee and my thesis. Looking out. Listening to You're So Pretty. By Field Music. Try not to discard the song due to the poor video. This song deserves more.
When I get home I think about you and your demeanor; You've got grace.
I won't shut up, I know that I should, I'd rather stay in the time when I saw a smile on your face.
You're so pretty I could talk to you all night I could sit here, I could talk to you all night
Trying to keep up with what's new in the world of contemporary pop music? Chances are that you have stumbled over Discovery, a combination of force between a member of Vampire Weekend and a member from Ra Ra Riot. Both fantastic pop bands that released two of the best records of last year. So what happens when you combine these ingredients? Well, from the sound of the first three songs, a unstoppable combination of electro, sunshine, Justin Timberlake, R&B, Hot Chip and that feeling you can get on a warm dancefloor during a late summer night. So, yeah, looking for this summers soundtrack, look no further than Discovery. I dance inside my head everytime I listen to them
Back in Amsterdam. Summer outside, summer in the computer lab. I write about communication and read a bit about Apple, and it's lack of communication in New York Times. I never liked Apple, and when I finally invested in an Ipod one and a half years ago, it was a decision against my ideology. And even though I admit that the Ipod is the best portable music player I've had by far, I'm happy I'm not working for them:
Secrecy at Apple is not just the prevailing communications strategy; it is baked into the corporate culture. Employees working on top-secret projects must pass through a maze of security doors, swiping their badges again and again and finally entering a numeric code to reach their offices, according to one former employee who worked in such areas.
Work spaces are typically monitored by security cameras, this employee said. Some Apple workers in the most critical product-testing rooms must cover up devices with black cloaks when they are working on them, and turn on a red warning light when devices are unmasked so that everyone knows to be extra-careful, he said.
Apple employees are often just as surprised about new products as everyone else.
“I was at the iPod launch,” said Edward Eigerman, who spent four years as a systems engineer at Apple and now runs his own technology consulting firm. “No one that I worked with saw that coming.”
