Jason nominated me for this game slash interview thingo, so here we go.

Total amount of music files on your computer?

Somewhere in the high 40's (GB) on my home PC, with smaller subsets of that collection on my laptop and mp3 player. Of course once I get the new mp3 player I am saving up for, the iriver H340, one of those subsets will be much larger.

The last cd you bought was...

"Midnight Oil" by Midnight Oil. I am an Oils fan from way back, and have just read Mark Dodshon's Biopic on the band "Bed's are Burning". It occured to me that the blue meanie was the only album I didn't have on CD, so I had to rush out and buy it. Actually I rushed out, realised that no real record shop actually carried it anymore, and ended up ordering it on line.

What was the last song you listened to before reading this message?

It was a cover of the Supertramp classic "Give a Little Bit" by those masters of middle of the road schmaltz, the Go Go Dolls. I heard it from the guy in the cube next to me who insists on having his radio loud enough so the whole office can hear the commercial BS station he likes to listen to. The worst thing was, the announcer got on air after the song was over and made this statement (paraphrased)

"I never thought much of Supertramp, but that is just a fantastic version".

Fantastic version?!? It sounds exactly the same, only with crappier sounding acoustic guitar. What is the point of doing a cover if you are not going to present a new take on the song? A great man once said (again, paraphrased) "If you are going to do a cover, you should treat the song like you wrote it".

Hang on, is this waxing cynical? Whoops sorry, I'll move on.

What new music are you really excited for in the coming year so far?

I hear The Whitlams have a new CD out this year. Mostly however, music will be released, some of it I will like, some of it I won't. I find you have a better time in life with low expectations.

Now I'm supposed to nominate 3 other people to do this. OK, I know more than 3 people, so sort it out amongst yourselves.