For the last few months there’s been a song randomly playing at work which I’ve fallen in love with. The problem with anything playing at work is since I don’t listen to the radio or go to clubs, I don’t usually know what anything’s called or who it’s by. I will admit this is a remix - my most hated of all types of music. Someone I know (who clearly had no idea what they were talking about) told me it was an Icehouse song, so I googled the lyrics with Icehouse as a searchword - fruitless in all respects. Ditto searches of Limewire. Then I found out it was a Roxy Music song called Kiss and Tell. Still nothing on Limewire. Stupid free peer to peer network!

Last night I searched every bit torrent site on the internet - still nothing. I found the album the song comes from on Amazon, but buying it from the US seemed a little extreme. In desperation, I decided to search i-Tunes, a mechanism I’ve always slagged off as too expensive and annoying. The album was there, but with 80kr next to each song. I thought maybe it was code for funky Apple credits or something, but no, I was connected to the Danish i-Tunes - perfectly sane for the Australian account I’d set up with Apple when I got my computer.

So for the next hour I tried to switch languages, create a new account and all that jazz. By the end of it, I’d pretty much written off ever wanting to hear the damn song again. Finally I went to bed, and tried to sort it out before work this morning. Still couldn’t do it. I came home this afternoon, but my session had timed out and I had to go through the whole thing again. But, the song’s finally downloaded and playing right now, and it was worth the hassle.

On a slightly different note, I went to the new Designers for Target range, which Stella McCartney had previously done. The new one is by Josh Goot, and all the photos I’d seen looked fab. I liked the idea of the wool and Tencel fabrics, and I’d picked out a couple of things I wanted to buy. Until I saw them in the flesh. The fabric was beautiful, but everything was so average looking I couldn’t deal with the idea of parting with so much money for such humdrum clothes. Instead I bought a whole lot of thermal layers for work (the gym is FREEZING) and a great t-shirt which was on sale. Sorry Josh Goot, but I have to give your range the thumbs down.

Today I’m loving: the weekend