This would be roughly the week of January 20 through January 26.
***5 Years Ago (2009):*** The image of the week was [a steampunk instrument by Mike Ford](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/25/image-of-the-week-mike-fords-steampunk/). … The quote of the week was the first two paragraphs of [an essay by Eula Biss on the telephone](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/24/quote-of-the-week-the-war-on-telephone-poles/) (“The idea on which the telephone depended—that every home in the country could be connected with a vast network of wires suspend ed from poles set an average of one hundred feet apart—seemed far less likely than the idea that the human voice could be transmitted through a wire”). … Downstream recommended listening included [*Battlestar Galactica* remixes](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/20/battlestar-galactica-a-disquiet-follows-my-soul-remix-mp3s/), some [proggy instrumental goodness from Marco Cervellin](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/21/proggy-instrumental-mp3s-from-marco-cervellin/), [mini film scores by O.S.T. (Chris Douglas)](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/22/ost-synken-score-excerpt-mp3s/), a [skateboard documentary soundtrack](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/23/music-for-skateboards-by-odd-nosdam-mp3/) by Odd Nosdam, and a [live Amon Tobin performance](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/26/live-amon-tobin-concert-mp3/).
***10 Years Ago (2004):*** The quote of the week was a comment on Slate.com about [the famous scream by Howard Dean](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/21/quote-of-the-week-deans-scream/) on the 19th. … Downstream entries included [Nanoloop tracks](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/20/game-boy-mp3/), music by [Deadbeat (aka Scott Monteith)](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/21/deadbeat-stream/), a mix by [Luke Vibert (aka Wagon Christ)](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/22/vibert-stream/), [fourth-world trip-hop from Eivind Aarset](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/23/norwegian-fusion-stream-mp3/), and material by [Pocka (aka Brad Mitchell)](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/26/pocka-mp3-set/).
***15 Years Ago (1999):*** A piece about Slow Gold II, an [$89.95 piece of software that let you slow down music](https://disquiet.com/1999/01/22/remix-at-home/). … A review I wrote for Amazon.com of [Michael Nyman’s score to *The Piano*](https://disquiet.com/1999/01/23/michael-nyman-the-piano/) (this is back when Amazon was hiring music journalists to write featured reviews — not consumer reviews, official Amazon reviews — of albums that it sold).