Are we human? Or are we dancer? ...does anyone know what the fuck that even means?

[fightingthecage]

I have had the new John Barrowman album for a few days (the one that will be released on Monday, not his last one) and I haven't listened to it yet, which makes me feel bad. Because I really want to! But I have a feeling I'm going to totally love it because his voice is amazing but if I do love it then I wont be able to stop listening to it and then I'll be a person who listens to John Barrowman augh augh ugh.

I also have the new Killers album but haven't listened to that yet because I'm lazy. And my love affiar with the Killers is pretty love/hate right now. At least Brandon has got rid of his moustache. I just can't get my head around their last single.

Feeling a bit better today so I'll be going to work tomorrow. Which I don't mind because a) I need the money and b) it will get me away from mother for a while. She's been great while I've been ill and we haven't got on as badly as normal this week, but I am definitely ready to have my house back to myself again.

OK, now I need to go find something to do.

ETA: Computer/music tech people on my flist - does anyone know if there's a way to just...plug your ipod into a new computer and transfer your library that way? I always thought that was possible but now, I learn, apparently it is not. Or is it? This is my question to you.

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[fogg8.livejournal.com]

About the lyrics, I think it's reference to a Hunter S Thompson quote where he said that we're creating a world full of dancers...not literary, some sorta metaphor.

And the computer thing. I don't know what it would be for a PC, but for a mac you download something called 'Music Rescue' and you can get everything off your ipod onto your computer. :)

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Aha! Thank you - that will get rid of a lot of arguments at work. And I will like the song a lot better now that I know what it's about.

I shall search for it immediately, thanks! :)

[newredshoes]

There's a free program called Senuti which works in theory -- I was able to get a few songs off my iPod to my new computer, but I think there may be something wrong with my iPod, because it started giving me error messages and then it erased itself. I've restored and resynced, but I haven't tried again since.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

...are you sure there's something wrong with your ipod? Not that there's something wrong with the program? Just in case...I dunno what I'd do without my ipod.

[newredshoes]

Yeah, I hear your hesitation -- the only reason I'm not more angry about it is because I still have most of my music on my old laptop, and I can transfer via Bluetooth, even if that's slow and a pain in the ass. But I'm pretty sure it's my iPod -- the new computer would give me "cannot read this device" messages.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I will try the instructions I've been given below first and if I bugger them up, I'll give this one a go. Thank you! :)

[msdkoyot.livejournal.com]

From what I know about senuti is it's mac only. But I may always be wrong.

There are many other programs out there, you should check the source forge or just google it.

Og and you can JUST do that with a zune, you silly iPod owner =p

As for the killers it seems to like it's a force rhyming attempt for the lack of a better word choice. And THEN after writing the song tehy were like "ooh! There's a quote like that!"

But again, that's just me.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Source forge...zune...you don't seem to realise that these terms mean nothing to me, heh. But no matter, because it's all done now! Didn't need a program at all, awesome.

I am reserving judgement on The Killers at the moment, just untilo I listen to their new album...which I will, as soon as my ipod has finished synching to this computer. If it's all bizarre, I will think them bizarre. If it's good, I will give them the benefit of the doubt re: Humans.

[djcati.livejournal.com]

You don't need to download anything (besides iTunes).

You're using Vista, right? Go to Control Panel -> Appearance & Personalisation and click on "Show hidden files and folders" under Folder Options. There's a little radio button in the window that pops up.

Then just open up your iPod in My Computer, go to iPod_Control and drag the Music folder over to your hard drive, preferably wherever your iTunes library is kept. If you've got a lot of songs, it'll take a while. Once it's done, you need to right-click that folder, go to Properties and unselect "Hidden".

Of course, all these files will have nonsensical names and be in F## folders. I don't know what your iTunes settings are like, but if you want your library to be well-organised and named correctly on the hard drive as well as in iTunes, you'll need to go (within iTunes) to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced and select "Keep iTunes Music folder organised". Then go to File -> Add folder to library, find your newly-transferred folder, hit OK, aaand you're done! Though again, iTunes may take a while to process all the songs if you have a lot.

...that was long and sounds really complicated, but it isn't, I swear. It's just detailed.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you! Lol, it does sound complicated but you give very good instructions so I shall follow them and hope for the best.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Did it and you were right; it was easy! Thanks muchly, I will be saving these instructions for next time I need them :)

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I read that the lyric actually is "dancers", but that the singer just doesn't enunciate his S's on this song for whatever reason. That could've been made up, but I did read it more than once.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

For real? Wow, he really drops those esses. But it does make a bit more sense if that's true.