Just got back from my annual business trip to New York which, as ever, was exciting but very exhausting. The city itself has so much energy that it exhausts you just being there but the business stuff was exhasusting as well.
Didn't get to the theatre this time but the BIG hit on Broadway at the moment is The Boys, which is the story of Frankie Valle [is that the correct spelling I wonder]. I didn't even get to the Virgin store on Broadway as I was busy clothes shopping due to the dollar exchage at the moment.
My best treat was going into the Apple store at the top of 5th Avenue which is a glass square just mounted on the pavement, you then go down a set of glass stairs and under the pavement is the store. What an exciting way to shop - anything you are thinking of buying is there for you to play with. Laptops, ipods, headphones everything is laid out on tables for you to try. I bought a pair of Bose noise reduction headphones and saved myself over £100 buying them in the US. It's disgraceful how countries mark up so high when selling their stuff over here. They are every bit as good as the advert says cutting out about 80% of background noise and the bass is excellent. I watched a movie on the way home wearing them and it sounded very good. So my beloved ipod now has a Bose accessory!
Talking of planes and as I blog not only the positive about music but the abuse of it also, is it my imagination but are planes now playing more music more often? It use to be playing when you got off and when you got on the plane, now it seems to be in between at certain points as well! And the mix is so weird. On Continental it was a right pot pourri, Madonna, Sinatra etc. Plus I really did not appreciate it as I was flying on the red eye flight and so was feeling pretty delicate by the time we landed at Birmingham.
