Category — Music

What: Drink a “Brandy Alexander”

Why: I just found out what a Brandy Alexander is. Originally I heard the song from Ron Sexsmith, featuring Feist. Then subsequently found out that Feist had written the song with Ron. In its original form a Brandy Alexander is a cocktail. So, when Ron plays on the 23rd of November, I know what drink I will toast the gig with.

I think that the dominance of the iPod as the killer solution for music on the move has spoiled us over the years. I can still remember in 2001 when Jason, a good friend of mine, showed me his new iPod 1st Gen with the scrollwheel and all that. I was nonchalantly fuming with jealousy. Since then I’ve collected (somewhat unintentionally) 3 iPods not including my iPhone. So it’s safe to say that I’m as good a fan as anyone out there.

So it’s hard to find something I find really compelling in todays music device market. Maybe moving to Japan would solve that. The original CGI renderings of the Spinn were nicey nice. But from this video one can see that this is a really gorgeously designed product. I’d be proud to run around with one of those. If you can just for one moment imagine that pretty much all of Apple’s products don’t exist this would really make you swoon.

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