I listened to Fiona Apple’s new album, Extraordinary Machine, on the drive into work this morning and was blown away by several cuts.

Only once in a while does a truly talented, insightful singer/songwriter come along that gets the words/music/expression just right for the times. Bob Dylan was one.

You can’t buy this album - I would have if I could have. It was cut a couple of years ago and Sony, for some reason, put it on the shelf. But I found a BitTorrent in about 10 seconds. It deserves to be heard.

If you don’t yet know what a BitTorrent file is, find out - it’s the predominant technology for file transfers on the internet today. Its unique characteristic is that the more intensely a file is downloaded, the faster it downloads (you’ve got to understand the distributed nature of this technology to see why). An extraordinary machine in it’s own right.

::Update - Sony saw the light. This album was eventually released about a year later.