i don't remember halloween...

didn't really do much last night...just stayed in with my wife...she made meaty squash and i went to rite aid and bought crappy masks...that is how we celebrated the evening of everything hallowed...or something...and i guess last night i did something really scary! i downloaded my first mp3, for my own personal listening pleasure and in a semi-purchasing fashion...i had a $1 mp3 credit on amazon so i wanted to get one song i would in no other fashion own in any form it is normally released, and i got the PERFECT song for that: "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins...GREAT SONG! fucking great song! a shame that EVERYTHING else that man did is about the worst kind of steaming turd possible...how is it that such a crappy recording artist managed to make only one song that's not just alright or not so bad but actually really great is pretty bizarre...the one concentrated point where the few songs he played on those three Eno records rubbed off on him...a while back i'm thinking, well, it's his first album maybe there's another awesome Eno-ish gem on there, i listened to sound samples from all the songs and sure enough they're the kind of shit that sounds just like the rest of his reprehensible solo career...but now i have used mp3 downloading successfully, its greatest use, and i listened to "In the Air Tonight" a bunch of times in a row...it was pretty great...oh, and the end is ever better than i'd previously thought, now that i have the luxury of paying close attention...i almost had a scare this morning...Mary Beth's alarm went off, and it's always set later than mine, really at that moment when it'd be the last moment for me to get ready for work in a hurry...and i'm thinking i didn't hear my alarm go off and that's strage and i'm hurrying and all...my alarm goes off while i'm in the shower...oh, yeah, daylight savings, mine phone updated itself and hers didn't...so now i have extra time anyway! (fascinating anecdote, that...)