Hi, all, You folks have been so kind, helpful and encyclopedic (especially one of you -- you know who you are), I feel emboldened to ask some more "he watches too much TV" questions:
(1) Three car commercials (I suppose since all cars look alike -- to me, anyway -- they have to use decent music to distinguish the brands): (a) a Saab commercial with a jazzy female pop/folk vocal -- sorry I can't be more exact, but maybe somone out there will know the commercial and the artist; (b) A VW Cabrio ad that aired a lot some time back and seems to have been brought back has a bunch of kids driving in the moonlight to a party; when they get there, the party seems too loud and drunken, so they just drive away to enjoy the night; anyway, there's a folky male vocalist I don't recognize...(c) Don't even know the make of the car this time, but this commercial features genXers again, driving (in some scenes) in a tunnel, with a catchy start-and-stop piece that's a mix of hiphop, big band (lots of horns) and I don't know what -- hard to classify. I think the song is either a current or very recent hit, because I still hear it on the street from time to time. Sorry for being so vague -- I should take better notes when I'm watching TV. Oh, yeah, navel gazing: reading about lint, and then coincidentally receiving a post (that I forwarded here) about a guy in the UK who collects navel lint (his own, I believe) got me looking down at my own navel, which is hard to miss by virtue of its being an outie (technically, an umbilical hernia -- popped out like a turkey thermometer about twenty years ago for no particular reason, didn't hurt, so I left it alone.) (Anyone see the movie eXistenZ, dir. by Cronenburg? A friend of mine did the prostetics, and based the virtual reality jack-in device on my belly button: I'm a star!!) (Idea for a movie: openly gay guy with an umbilical hernia -- call it "Outy" -- that's as far as I've gotten. My sister asked me what kind of car he would drive... It runs in the family.) Anyway, any other outies among the jmdlers? People (well, *some* people) ask "Are you an innie or an outie?", but to tell the truth, I've never ever met another outie. Just curious. More serious question: What isp would y'all suggest for someone with a five-year-old computer and no money? I've run into trouble with the largest isp (you know who), although it finally got partially corrected today after ruining the end of September for me financially. I understand "hotmail" is free.. are there others? I'd appreciate any recommendations. Thanks, walt Now reading: printouts of Kakki and Steve's meeting with her Joniness and trying not to drool. np: lots of early cocteau twins
