Just when you think you know someone...

...you find out they downloaded the Radiohead album and DIDN'T PAY ANYTHING FOR IT....okay, so DH and I and the kids decided to get away this weekend, loaded up our cheap rental car with a couple of bags of haphazardly picked out clothing, some scrap stuff (again, haphazard, although I did remember my trimmer this time) and headed out last night. We were bickering about something..oh yes, I remember...Luca wants to start violin lessons and they're expensive, so I'd spent a great deal of time researching prices and classes in the city. I'd found a relatively inexpensive program in Brooklyn, but the problem was that the classes ran all day on Sunday. So anyway, we were "discussing" whether Luca should take the class or not (Michael being con, me being pro)...and in an effort to move the discussion to more neutral territory, Michae mentions that he downloaded the new Radiohead album and he really liked it.

"So what did you pay for it?"
"Nothing."
"Tell me you're kidding me."

No, he wasn't kidding. He went on to say that most people didn't pay anything for the album (for those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, Radiohead made their latest album available for download and is allowing people to pay whatever they wish for it, including nothing.) and I said, well, you're not everyone. You are an artist and to me that's sorta like stealing. Anyway, after that we decided not to talk for a while. Yes, I was annoyed, but all this came at the end of three weeks of him working crazy 80 hour weeks, or maybe longer...so there's always that "re-entry" period of having him back in our lives more. Which in the end, of course, is great, but the transition is tough.

Anyway, one of the reasons I haven't blogged much this week is because I REALLY wanted to share with everyone pics of the ADVANCE COPY OF MY BOOK!!! but I keep forgetting to transfer them from my camera and then I don't blog because I forgot to do the transfer, and so it goes. So anyway, I am not at home now, but when I do get home, I will upload some sneak peaks of the book and let me tell you, I am really happy with how it turned out. It's such a process to get the book written, the art work completed, the cover finalized, etc etc that when it's all done it's sort of hard to get your mind around it.

So I am heading with Michael and the boys over to our favorite local donut shop out here on Long Island. Just what i need, right?? (I bought myself a pair of Antik jeans on ebay and yes, they're my size but somehow, oddly, they don't fit....wonder why that is? I think I'll mull it over while munching on a nice cinnamon donut...)

Comments

[Lisa]

Would that be Dreesels (sp?) I remember a layout you did about that. Congrats again on the book. I'll check back to see the sneak peak.

[Deb Wisker]

Ok, Hil..ya gotta get past the download thing. I was at first shocked when my dd told me she doesn't pay for downloads thru ?limewire...I never checked it out. Something about it though, like you, bothers me about the free thing..still seems like piracy...I guess you and I will be the honest ones and pay for our itunes!
Enjoy the donut. And the jeans probably fit you a heck of a lot better than they'd ever fit me!!!

[Stephanie Howell]

we paid 5 dollars...
but it's cuz it was the end of the month and we were broke. =)
j. is a radiohead FANATIC.

[Liz Ness]

Ooo...can't wait to see the sneak! Also, isn't it funny how alien our husbands can seem sometimes. Most of the time it's hard to even think of them as separate people...they're a part of us, right? Then, they surprise you with something and you're left to gaze at them like a deer caught in the headlights!

[Annette]

GOSH Hillary!! I think you totally made my day this morning with your comment on my blog. I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!!

And yeah, just about everyone downloaded the new Radiohead album for free. Just goes to show you that if people can get it for free ... they won't pay if they don't have to.