MY LIFE ISN’T ANYTHING COMPARED TO STARS AND SOUND, SOUND: Absolute best thing that has happened to me in the past week (not counting Mass): The Old Oligarch FIXED MY DVD PLAYER AND CD PLAYER!!!!!

I’m honestly kind of startled at how happy this makes me. I’d been listening to horrible rough scratchy awful DVD sound, and NO compact discs at all, for so long that I’d forgotten how wonderful it is to have these EARS. So I’m deeply pro-ears now.

Perhaps the most interesting thing I’ve noticed about the content of the discs I’ve played so far is that the music in “X2: X-Men United,” while more stirring than the music in “X-Men,” is not as unique. The “X2” music is heroic-generic, even though the actual movie is swift and pleasingly polished. “X-Men” has this doomy, histrionic score that works really well, although it is–like the movie it accompanies–slower and less memorable than its “X2” counterpart.