feeling listless

Music Just to prove that people do win these competitions, I was a reviewer of the week at The Collective and won a CD, The Faint's 'Danse Macabre'. I'll offer a review when I've listening to it, but in some ways it's worth buying just for the design on the cd itself, a matt black with glossy black writing on it. Or ...

"Zaphod's attention however was elsewhere. His attention was riveted on the ship standing next to Hotblack Desiato's limo. His mouths hung open.
"That," he said, "that ... is really bad for the eyes ..." Ford looked. He too stood astonished.
It was a ship of classic, simple design, like a flattened salmon, twenty yards long, very clean, very sleek. There was just one remarkable thing about it.
"It's so ... black!" said Ford Prefect, "you can hardly make out its shape ... light just seems to fall into it!"
Zaphod said nothing. He had simply fallen in love.
The blackness of it was so extreme that it was almost impossible to tell how close you were standing to it.
"Your eyes just slide off it ..." said Ford in wonder. It was an emotional moment. He bit his lip."

From: 'The Restaurant At The End Of The Universer" by Douglas Adams. This is the review of 'Lost Highway' which led to the shiny disc.