What the Phone in My Pocket Used to Be
I was listening to the Era Vulgaris album before a Queens of the Stone Age gig, and it put me back in Birmingham between finishing secondary school and starting university. The technology I had then was a 17-inch gaming laptop running Vista, and I chose it over a desktop because I wanted something I could take with me. (A possible error given how heavy it was) It came to the US with me for my second year of university in 2008, and once I’d bought some cheap speakers it was the entire setup for the year, because the screen was big enough that I didn’t need anything else. Before that I’d never had my own machine at all, I shared a PC with my brother. ...