Hush, my darling, be still, my darling, the lion's on the phone

[mmcirvin]

For my birthday, I finally got Apollo 18 on CD to replace my long-vanished tape, and I am having intense graduate school flashbacks.

I PROMISE NOT TO KILL YOU.

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[schwa242.livejournal.com]

This has been a content-free post.

Get rid of.

[jwgh]

Matt McIrvin! He is our hero!

I understand we share a birthday. Hope you had a great one!

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I did.

[swinehund.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you would like to see our wedding cake? I used the Apollo 18 cover as a guide.

You can even pretend it is an e-birthday cake.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Ah, but my favorite detail about that cover is the tiny Apollo LM hovering near the whale and squid: it's actually not the final version that flew, but an earlier version of the design that showed up in a lot of mid-Sixties NASA PR artwork. You can tell if you squint at it really hard...

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

One of the benefits of having Apollo 18 on CD is that Fingertips consists of 21 tracks, one for each vignette instead of a single track, so you can play them in random order or a new order of your choosing. You'll probably need to involve a computer to accomplish this while excluding the other tracks, but it's a novel experience, since you, I presume, are accustomed to the album order. It's good that you own the CD, because of course each of Fingertips' 21 tracks costs 99¢ at the iTunes Music Store.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

They work well shuffled with arbitrary playlists, too.

Apollo 18 is strangely missing from the iTunes Store; this makes no sense, since TMBG's other three albums from the Elektra period are there. But if it were there, who knows what they'd do with "Fingertips", but it would probably cost $9.99 as a bundle, like the other three Elektra albums. (Severe Tire Damage and Lincoln go for $11.99, for some reason; the two EPs available on iTunes are less.)

Typically the iTunes store sells both 99-cent tracks a la carte, and the whole album for somewhere around $10. For most albums the latter price isn't enough of a discount over buying the CD to bother with it unless you really want the instant gratification, which has, I admit, happened to me on occasion.