Random Monday thoughts: Spin magazine picked "Your Hard Drive" as the Album of the Year, dear god, I wish I thought of that, that's pure genius. They're right, of course, because the way that free downloadable music proliferated itself will come to be synonymous with the year 2000 -- far more so than any one music release. In a way it's a shame, because I think this has been one of the top two or three years for new releases in the last 20 years or so. That will likely be forgotten in the wake of the flowering of the Napster generation. I am swaying myself toward the opinion that the first 20 minutes of the Godspeed You Black Emperor! album is the best 20 minutes of music released this year. As for how the *entire* 85-minute opus compares the endless multitude of other outstanding *whole* albums of 2000, I am still undecided.