Look at the first post you ever wrote on Vox. What important developments or changes have occurred in your life since then?
Submitted by Alexandra.
My first post was in August, 2006. Since then, I've left the employment of the company I worked for for almost my entire career, and good fucking riddance to them. I've abandoned my long-held unwillingness to commute into the nearest large city and found that I'm far happier with my work, even if I have a lot less free time these days thanks to the time it takes to make that commute. I've gotten a hell of a lot better at what I do thanks to my new jobs, too, because they offer me a lot more opportunity to do the kind of work I enjoy than my old job did.
Have you ever experienced road rage?
Submitted by Question of the Day.
It had been a long, stressful day. We had all flown from New Jersey to Detroit to attend my grandmother's funeral, the second funeral trip to Detroit in two weeks. Massive snowstorms had kept us on the ground in Newark for hours, so we missed most of the visitation. We were hungry. I was driving an unfamiliar rental van about the size of Rhode Island. And we needed flowers. I noticed a florist's shop just as we were zooming by it, so I slowed down and turned in. And maybe I did it a little too quickly; the guy behind us was annoyed and honked. I snapped and yelled "Fuck you with a chainsaw, buddy!"
Show us a sign.
What's the best thing about today?
No commute.
Share a song you recently realized you can't get enough of... no matter how many times you listen to it.
Show us a letter.
Here is a letter "b", a slug of metal type from the typeface Helvetica Bold Extended, produced by the Stempel foundry in the 1970s. It came as part of the deluxe edition DVD of the documentary film Helvetica. I saw the film at its world premiere in Austin, Texas, during SXSW, and loved it. You can see another part of the schwag that came with the deluxe edition underneath, a small letterpress rendition of a poster for the film by Experimental Jetset.
I remember getting my name typeset on a Linotype during a school field trip to the offices of the Detroit News when I was a kid. I haven't seen that bit of metal in mumble years, though, so as far as I know, this is the only metal type in the house.
Oops, I've gone more than a month without posting here, and if I don't post in the next 10 minutes, there will be a month missing from the list of months below. Can't have that, now can we?
Video: Show us a music video you'd gladly watch over and over again.
Led Zeppelin will finally offer their music online starting next month. Of the music you buy, about how much of it do you download and how much do you buy on physical formats (CDs, vinyl, etc.)?
I buy maybe one or two songs or albums in downloadable form per year. If ITMS offers something that's not otherwise available, I'll consider it. So, for example, when Mission of Burma and Elvis Costello offered iTunes-only EPs, I bought them. When Wir Sind Helden participated in the first iTunes Foreign Exchange, where they covered an English-speaking band's song in their native German and that band covered one of Wir Sind Helden's songs in English, I bought that. But basically, I find the DRM that comes along with most downloadable music these days noxious. I want that silver backup platter, even if I rarely put it in the CD player once it's ripped. I want the little booklet and liner notes, even if they're tiny, smaller than the expansive space available for the old LP format. I want the design experience that comes with the physical artefact, something that's entirely missing in downloadable format. I once wrote a review of an album by the Sex Clark Five around the smell of the cardboard sleeve the LP came in. Try that with your latest purchase from the iTunes Music Store or eMusic.
Audio: Share what you're listening to right now.
I love the mix of rap, r&b, and Congolese guitar in this song by The Go! Team. Amazing stuff.
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