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Twilight Shortage in Hawaii?

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Read Twilight

From what I’ve heard from the literary grapevine is that Twilight, the first book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga, is pretty much sold out in Hawaii. I haven’t confirmed this and find it hard to believe after seeing stacks of Twilight previously (okay, the pic shows stacks of Breaking Dawn).

After the success of Twilight the movie, maybe the book sold quickly during the Holidays? Or maybe it’s posters like this urging literacy?

Hella Tired

Don’t know exactly why but I’ve been hella tired this past week. Maybe it’s the festivities of the Holidays catching up with me. Going to work is a physical struggle, being sleepy behind the wheel even while drinking my morning coffee. Driving home is the same as I make the trek in a zombie like state.

Daily activities suffer as well, especially blogging. It’s been awhile since I’ve felt the excitement of one butt cheek blogging. I still get ideas to blog about but instead of percolating in my mind, they coagulate instead.

Enough whining… for now.

My Top Music for 2008

Looking through my iTunes library, here’s my list of most played songs that I added to my collection in 2008:

  1. Discipline CD – Janet Jackson
  2. Satellite – Dave Matthews Band
  3. Clocks (live version) – Coldplay
  4. Decode – Paramore
  5. Clocks – Coldplay
  6. Damaged – Danity Kane
  7. The Scientist (live version) – Coldplay
  8. Devil Wouldn’t Recognize – Madonna
  9. 4 Minutes – Madonna (feat. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland)
  10. Giggling Again for No Reason – Alanis Morissette
  11. Viva la Vida – Coldplay
  12. Violet Hill – Coldplay
  13. Love Lockdown – Kanye West
  14. Don’t Stop the Music – Rihanna
  15. Viva la Vida (New edit single) – Coldplay
  16. I Kissed a Girl (Nevins Rock Funkrokr Extended Mix) – Katy Perry

I wouldn’t have guessed at some of these selections, but iTunes is telling me otherwise. For some reason, Janet Jackson’s Discipline CD outplays the other songs by far, but I think I left it on repeat one day. Hmm, I listen to lots of Coldplay.

Crisis in Bromance Averted

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Wow, that was a close one, a real close one. As 2008 came to a close so could have many of Hawaii’s television channels. You see Viacom was in a tiff with Time Warner (Oceanic here in Hawaii) and was threatening to pull its television programming at the start of 2009.

That would have mean no Bromance! MTV would have been one of the affected stations, and all the Hawaii Bromantics would have been at a loss. Just think of all the Bromantic interludes we would have missed, all the Bromantic novels that could have been penned. Makes me shudder and thankful that the situation was mended and a Bromansis (Bromantic + crisis = Bromansis) was averted.

192-kbps MP3 vs 128-kbps AAC

The MP3 versus AAC digital music format reminds me the days of Intel x86 processors versus IBM’s PowerPC chips. Each camp would argue the benefits of CISC and RISC architecture and throw in rates like processors speeds to confuse things (aka the Megahertz wars).

Same now with music files. Does an MP3 sound better than an AAC music file? Now throw in encoding rates. 128kbps, 192kpbs, 256 kbps? What’s the best bang for the buck?  Does it really matter any more?

Lots of Retread in iTunes Store?

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Tuesdays mark the new releases for music and movies, but this week, the iTunes Store doesn’t seem to have anything new. The New and Noteworthy section has a lot of retreaded material (Britney Spears’ Circus is not new).

But today is also the first day of Macworld Expo with its “Phil-harmonic” where Apple Senior VP, Phil Schiller, is doing the honors instead of Steve Jobs. Is this musical retread a sign of changes coming to the iTunes Store to be announced at the Expo? Pricing change? No more DRM? In a few short hours, we will see…

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