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I spent a day burning cds. I have to clear out my itunes regularly because I have very little memory left and music is the easiest to delete. I have far too many files and pictures and documents that I don't actually need but always think I might want at some point in the future. Then there's my Stuffs folder. I haven't looked through it in a long time but it holds about 60 items and four of them are folders full of more stuff. Anyway so I make playlists by looking up amazon and working out tracklists and making sure all of them play right and burn them. My speakers are still acting up but I'm pretending it's fine, just like I'm pretending my dvd player hasn't broken. It means I get music, burn it onto a disc, delete the music, realise I haven't put any of it on my ipod so I have to upload the music again and rejig the music on the ipod because it's full and then delete the music all over again. My parents criticised me for not doing anything but I pointed to the stack of cds on my desk. Whole days work. I need a job.

The worst part is I'm running out of blank cds so I try to cram as many albums on one as I can without splitting tracklists. So one Cd has both Wincing the Night Away and Oh, Inverted World because then I can have Chutes Too Narrow on its own because it's my favourite. It's a lot of organising, though my parents still don't count it as productive. It doesn't always work, especially with longer albums and a lot of the shorter ones wouldn't work so well playing together.

The real problem lay with the Mars Volta whose albums I had never got around to burning for some reason and so now I can annoy my neighbours since his office is right next to my room and the speakers are against the adjoining wall. It is heaps of fun. But while I managed two albums fine their newest one took an awful long time to initialise and by the time I had made lunch and sorted dirty washing I returned to the box telling me the album was too long. I had to put the last three tracks on a cd by themselves because I had already burned the other ones and I had nothing appropriate left to fill the space. I'd be pissed off at them but they made the song Agadez. I cannot hate them. I'm just sad I didn't listen to it when it first came out but that's my own fault for being convinced it came out in May.

Music in adverts is always fun to look up. I looked up the song in the upside down deodorant advert. The singer is Gabriella Cilmi but I wasn't much impressed by the rest of her stuff. It's terribly retro pop. One song is like a bad Blondie. The ad song is so very catchy though, I can't get it out of my head. I also found The Cold War Kids because their song was used in the depressing Scrubs ad. They weren't bad, Julie liked them, but I found them a bit samey. I think it's because these bands get played so often, when you try and listen to them properly the meaning's gone. I found that with Feist who I found when Mushaboom was used on a fabric softener ad, least I think it was for that. Then suddenly she was being played in Starbucks constantly and Apple used her in an ipod advert and I can't be bothered listening to her anymore even though her albums were fairly pretty to listen to. I can't even do the indie whine because I found her through an advert in the first place, albeit a few adverts before other people started talking about her.

Oh! and I got the Amelie soundtrack. It's so very pretty,it makes me want to be in Paris so badly. You can listen to some here.

I am having a terrible time other than music. Like my brain shut down and all I can do is get pissed off at all the wrong things. Like the Metro. And the lack of revolutions. I want something to happen. I just don't want to be the person that makes it happen. It all started on Friday really when I had to interact with a guy who made me so very aware of the fact that I was female, in a bad way, and kept calling me sweetheart. And then some guys at a fight in my bus stop and the woman next to me decides to start shouting at them to stop it and then got on a bus just as she's attracted enough attention in my direction. It's times like that I wish I hadn't put a skirt on. I just feel so terribly like a girl that it drives me crazy.