Am I hallucinating? I cannot believe the lineup for this year’s Sasquatch. Ironically, the bands I want to see most are bands I’ve either passed up in the past or who put on what I thought were marginal shows: the Cure (yes, it hurts very much to say that), REM, Stephen Malkmus, Kinski, Mates of State. Or worse, who I know from the Grey’s Anatomy soundtrack (thank you, Rilo Kiley). But then the Flaming Lips will also be there and when I last saw them 14 years ago (!!!) at Lollapalooza, they were incredible, and I keep seeing and reading things about their shows since that make me expect them to be even better. I can’t wait!
I can’t wait forever for Microsoft and T-Mobile to get together and get a Windows Mobile phone on the market that supports UMA (the technology behind T-Mobile’s HotSpot@Home and TalkForever services). There aren’t any Windows Mobile devices on the market or even forecasted with the stack (forget about carried by T-Mobile), so now I’m looking at a BlackBerry, which is different, but probably the next best thing. So now the question is whether to go with the Curve (8320) or wait for the update to the Pearl (8120) (which is rumored to drop in a week or two). The specs on the updated Pearl are almost identical to the Curve - it looks like basically a Curve that: adds video recording (yawn), weighs almost 20% less, has bluetooth 2.0, trades the full qwerty keyboard for their SureType thing, trims the screen from 320×240 to 240×260, and cannot be tethered to a laptop as a modem. Also, the Pearl comes in 8 fabulous colors while the Curve only comes in gold or silver. Decisions…decisions…
