Thursday, August 28, 2003
Wow, I just heard about this (the rush hour power out in London today) as I was listening to London radio station XFM online (see link at left to check it out for yourself). I'm no conspiracy theorist but this is way too weird a coincidence--first the power goes out in the US a couple weeks back and now in London, England. Hmm, what do these two countries have in common in terms of major geo-political events this year? Between this and the computer viruses, there's been a lot of very strange stuff happening in the last couple of weeks. If this isn't the work of terrorists or very malicious hackers, at the worst it does show you how vulnerable we are to attack from anyone who may want to do us harm. Forget about planes or buildings being attacked, a couple of key strokes by the wrong person and we could all be on our knees in a deep panic. OK, now I do sound like some kind of conspiracy nutcase. Back to more life-affirming thoughts....
On the other hand XFM also played the new single by The Strokes called "12:51" right before the news which sounded pretty good (although the vocals sounded a little buried in the mix). Their chug-along retro guitar style was still intact but the track had a very Cars-like feel to my ears with its new wave/80's keyboard melody. If this is any indication of what the new album (supposedly to be titled "Room on Fire") is going to sound like, these guys look like they' should escape the sophomore slump no problem.
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On the other hand XFM also played the new single by The Strokes called "12:51" right before the news which sounded pretty good (although the vocals sounded a little buried in the mix). Their chug-along retro guitar style was still intact but the track had a very Cars-like feel to my ears with its new wave/80's keyboard melody. If this is any indication of what the new album (supposedly to be titled "Room on Fire") is going to sound like, these guys look like they' should escape the sophomore slump no problem.
