At the restart of Greek today, disappointed with our lack of studying over the summer, Mark said that it was sad because we were half-way through the book and now we've got to go back a few chapters and we aren't half-way any more. I said we could just read a bit of chapter 14 for next week and then pretend we were half-way through the book and he said that that was very clever and so I said well you can use that on your website and he said oh no that would be too much, you use it on yours. So I did. Later on I managed to parse a verb though, so it was all alright.
The way to solve this is for someone to buy this woman an iPod. That's if she likes music. Which I'm sure she does, because most people do.
The new Idlewild best of is a best of CD, and in line with all best of CDs serves to fill gaps between albums, provide a good opportunity to tour, and allows people who liked them once when the say them at a festival and they would have bought their album but they were too busy trying to get that girls number and then they bought that giant hat to get into them. Also like all best of CDs it has to have some sort of hook to get the more hardcore fans to buy it. The CD does alright; you can buy it with a DVD and get a live performance and all the videos and a documentary and some live acoustic stuff which is pretty sweet, but one of the real hooks is that when you put the CD in, you can then download Queen of the Troubled Teens and Chandelier, the first two singles, both of which were never on an album. Except it's the most badly executed download system ever, involving java applets and multiple website visiting. Having already got the songs I tried the download link out of curiosity and in the hope they'd be a higher bitrate. They're not. Why don't they just give them away for free?
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Mark Meynell
Hi Mark - it was great to get back into the Greek groove this morning. And your remarks are indeed very amusing - perhaps you could instigate a weekly report of your amusing Greek jokes and amusements. I think we'd all find it most enjoyable.