Radio­head in about ten min­utes. Be ready.

If you’re still send­ing cds [this was almost full stop], they should at least be playable on the com­put­er, iPod, whathavey­ou. As much as I love inde­pen­dent artists and the music they make, I can’t spend time I don’t have lis­ten­ing to it at home when I could just as eas­i­ly lis­ten and enjoy on the train, or on a walk to the train.

More impor­tant­ly, think about the envi­ron­ment and just send a zip file, okay? Your music isn’t so impor­tant that it’s worth destroy­ing the plan­et, even if your breath­less prose pro­claims it so.

After a brief con­ver­sa­tion with a Dylan­ite yes­ter­day, I need­ed to imme­di­ate­ly re-read Andy Beta’s excel­lent review of Todd Hay­nes’s new hagiog­ra­phy, I’m Not There. Will peo­ple ever stop Tom Brokaw-ing Six­ties music?

[PS: There’s a part of me that would love to do a recur­ring fea­ture called Nev­er For­get in which I dis­cuss rehashed artists and albums that were nev­er for­got­ten in the first place. It’s Ur-text could be David Brook­s’s recent arti­cle about pop music,‘The Seg­ment­ed Soci­ety.’]

So much is still going on. My main man is still work­ing up a redesign. I still can’t wait, but in the mean­time, just so you know that I still care about music and stuff, I’m going to be writ­ing snip­pets about my favorite albums/artists of ’07 at my work blog, Blind­ed by the Hype! Be sure to stop by and if you hap­pen to have a Com­cast email account, feel free to log-in and comment.

• the Phillies
• Gary Shteyn­gart’s Absur­dis­tan
• King of Kong: A Fist­ful of Quarters
• Heavy Winged
• Halo 3
• Mad­den ’08
• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
• Bioshock
• PJ Har­vey
• Mad Men
• Iraq in Fragments
• Jay Reatard
• Patrick Cock­burn’s The Occu­pa­tion
• Before the Dev­il Knows You’re Dead
• The Sav­age Detectives
• Assas­s­in’s Creed

I’m real­ly psy­ched. I sus­pect that I’ll be writ­ing much more often and pay­ing much more atten­tion to the blo­gos­phere in the win­ter months.

Which new iPod? Giz­mo­do wres­tles with the options and comes to the con­clu­sion that stand­ing pat is the way to go. But they have a 60 gig video iPod. I still have my func­tion­al but weath­ered black and white 20G from ’04. I know, it should be in a muse­um as it still works, still holds charge and sounds just about as crap­py as any mp3 play­er will. I can faint­ly hear Momus’ words [I think he wrote it] that in the near term we’d all have old, yet func­tion­al iPods in our night­stand draw­ers col­lect­ing dust. That time has arrived for me.

But here’s the kick­er: I’m mak­ing the jump to a Mac­book this week­end and my wife is using her stu­dent ID to get the dis­count plus the $199 rebate that can be used for any iPod. That’d make the new iPhone $100 bucks after the price drop, adding a wrin­kle to the pro­ceed­ings. I need a new phone too!

Help me make my deci­sion in the comments.

Adden­dum: I got total­ly pwned by the FAQs. Turns out it only applies to the old nano and 30G video iPods. Now I’m think­ing iPod nano, just for knock­ing around dur­ing workouts.