Had some time to burn at the local Fred Meyer, so as usual I did a bit of a musical slurge:

• JET, Get Born: Damn I love their version of "Are you gonna be my girl"
• Eric Clapton, Me and Mr. Johnson: Who doesn't love Clapton doing old style blues? Noone, dat's who...
• Prince, Musicology: The odd one returns... I couldn't resist this one. No one really plays a good hook like Prince.

This is exactly what I want to do to my Jeep (or whatever vehicle may soon replace it). I have the iTrip FM tuner which works alright, but there are odd interferences, and you have to ditch whatever On-the-go playlist you have going in order to switch FM channels on those long drives. Not to mention that you still have power cables somewhere as well as some type of holder taking up space. The ability to hook right into the deck via an RCA cable would give you the clearest sound you can get out of the iPod, which would be fanstastic. I've seen rumors of Alpine coming out with an iPod capable deck, but no telling how far out that is...

Now I just have to win the lottery...

Been loving iTunes lately, and it's done nothing to help control my music habit (damn those enablers....).

• Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. How can you NOT dance to Hey Ya! and Bowtie... I dare you...
• John Mayer - Heavier Things. He plays the guitar like Stevie Ray Vaughn, I swear. I can't wait until he releases a bluesy album. Saw him on Austin City Limits and Buddy Guy and Double Trouble played with him (yes, he was headlining) and he tracked licks with Buddy Guy head to head...
• Jem - Finally Woken. And boy has she... loving this one so far :). Very relaxing/mellow vibe throughout.

Eric Meyer reminded me how much I loved The Matrix soundtrack, and particuarly Spybreak, then I found Decksanddrumsandrockandroll on iTunes, and after listening to the clips had to buy it...

Damn iTunes is great... it's like having Tower Records in my office...

For some reason the guys at Muse have closed up shop (taking with them the same service at DivX). I was adrift in a sea of quiet... no music at work. 3500 songs on a PC that I didn't have access to.

About a billion Google searches later I found MP3Mystic. It's not the prettiest program in the world, but it sets up a self-contained server on your music PC and allows you remote access to the tunes from anywhere. The single user version is free (what a price) or you can buy a multi-user license for either $9.99 or $29.99. So far it's working really well, I'll just have to come up with a nice template so I don't have to look at the unpurty HTML layouts :)