I’d like to congratulate AJ and her Last.fm account on an impressive milestone. Back when we were roommates, she dragged me into using it too. I’m at 72,017, so I’m getting there. I’ll catch up yet.
-
Pages
Category Archives: music
Trying to burn the foreheads down
Jonathan Coulton and Paul and Storm cover one of my favorite songs of all time.
Side note: I can’t believe Flood is almost 20 years old.
In which I discover Internet radio
I distracted myself too much and gave in, setting up separate user accounts on my Mac for personal things and for my freelance work. I don’t even have my business e-mail running in a client on my personal account. I’m that hardcore.
If I’m living in my house and using my personal computer for personal things, …
What? What?!
Who thought that this could possibly be a good idea? Plus, didn’t Nintendo do this with Mario Paint at least 15 years ago, only without the singing?
A pocketful of orchestras
I’ve always liked iTunes, even with the DRM nonsense, but these days I’m hooked on the Amazon mp3 downloader thingy. Being me, I got hooked when I learned about the free mp3 section, and then started noticing actual decent deals in the music you can pay for. That’s how they catch you, dude.
A friend of a …
Call me many things, the first of which is happy
“There Are Much Worse Things To Believe In“
by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger — performed by Elvis Costello and Stephen Colbert
There are cynics, there are skeptics
There are legions of dispassionate dyspeptics
Who regard this time of year as a maudlin insincere
Cheesy crass commercial travesty of all that we hold dear
When they think that
Well, I can hear …
I don’t have a problem.
I can stop ANY TIME I WANT.
From my last.fm log, from which you can probably glean an alarming amount of information about me.
Listener’s Advisory
As of this writing, I’m 42 (ha!) songs away from passing 50,000 tracks logged on last.fm. This nice even number makes me want to back up and say, “why do I keep doing this? Why is it interesting to me?”
Last.fm doesn’t just generate the pretty “last 10 songs listened to” cover art in the sidebar of …
The meteorite is just the source of the light
Joanna Newsom is officially part of my pantheon of musicians whose songs I adore solely when they’re covered by someone else. This group also includes Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and a few other people I’m forgetting.
I’m thinking of this in particular, which every so often I just HAVE to hear.
Holy cow I’m white and nerdy
I really have the weirdest gym playlist. Someone made fun of me for having Belle and Sebastian on an older version, but it’s become even weirder since then.
I have a few hundred tracks that rotate, and then it pulls the 30 least recently played tracks for that day’s playlist. Here’s what comes …