Something’s Always Wrong, by Toad the Wet Sprocket. I got this stuck in my head at a rest stop in Pennsylvania on the way home from Ohio. It’s probably the only song by this unfortunately named band that I like; the harmonies in the bridge are beautiful. This was on heavy alternative radio airplay back in the day in a time when “alternative” music was losing steam and leaning towards easy listening. I would have posted the actual music video, but it sucks.
Interesting…
I wrote about the Nationals trip last week over on the Scout site; needless to say it was a great time.
It’s been a minute since I’ve bought digital music online. Here’s the bullshit I had to go through to buy an album this afternoon:
- Apple’s Music app (the replacement for iTunes) in its normal state, does not have a visible link or menu item for the iTunes Store. It can be made visible in the Preferences. Why is this?
- The only visible way to see new music is to sign up for a subscription plan, which I refuse to do. I have enough subscriptions.
- So I went to Amazon, where the only visible link is a subscription shill as well. I refuse to do this too. Surely there must be a better way.
- A couple of searches later, I found a CNET article on how to buy and download new music. CNET still exists?
- This contained a link to a page on Amazon that was not immediately available from my Prime account. Thanks.
- From here I found my album. I purchased and downloaded it in MP3 format.
- Now, to get it on my iPhone. I imported it into Apple Music, figuring it would sync. It did not.
- Another search told me to AirDrop the files to my phone. I did this, and it only put the files in my iCloud Files folder without importing them. I deleted them. The fuck?
- More searching revealed that I needed to connect my phone via a cable to my computer. How very 2005 of them.
- I did this, the first time I’ve connected this phone to my computer ever. I had to tell each machine to trust the other, and wait for the handshake.
- Then I went through Ye Olde Sync screen to manually select the music and load it on my phone. How can this still be the way?
I am aghast at the state of things. I figured surely these days there would be a quicker, easier way that didn’t involve yet another subscription, but this is The State Of Things, I guess.
Here’s a video from this weekend: I was able to spend a little bit of the day working on the truck on Saturday, with Finn sitting in the back seat working on a project of her own. The gist here was that I got the fuel injection system working after swapping the old carb on, running the engine to temperature, and swapping the new carb back.