I played around with GarageBand, apple's new application (which you must actually pay for), and it's a lot of fun. I've been waiting for a music sequencer "for the rest of us" for a long time. I had thought that somebody needed to take up this project, but it wasn't going to be me; it's just not my field of expertise. Anyhow, I don't have (anymore) a MIDI keyboard to plug into the application, and I know how to play a guitar about as much as I know how to fly a plane, perform brain surgery, or program for MS-Windows. So I played around with just the built-in riffs. The result is here: A Total Waste of Time (AAC/m4a format — you may need to option-click on the link to download it!), from the never-to-be-released album, A Total Waste of Disk Space. Don't expect it to be listenable. But it was kind of fun to put together this mix of hip-hop rhythms, Nordic strings, and gospel-sounding organ.