I found this website through the New York Times: Pandora.com, part of the Music Genome Project. Basically, type in your favorite artist or song and the program uses random evaluations of songs on hundreds of criteria to pick similar songs. When I say similar, I don't mean the same genre. You can end up with a song that is diametrically opposed to ( Read more... )

Well, Franz Ferdinand was fantastic! Absolutely a great show, lots of energy and sheer volume. They played most of my favorite songs, Take Me Out, Michael, 40'. They were very good at getting everybody moving and involved, so I was definitely moving and grooving. Anyway, it was just completely awesome and I'm so glad I went. There are some groups ( Read more... )

First, I win at teeth! Clean bill of health from the dentist, no cavities and no yelling about not flossing. There was yet another wisdom teeth lecture, with the usual 'at some point, not now, but maybe, in the future, they could screw your teeth up' conclusion. Unless they're going to screw them up in the next few years, too bad, so sad. Now I don ( Read more... )

An early Valentine's present: I have tickets to see Franz Ferdinand in concert! I bought the tickets this morning, after undergoing the rather Herculean task of ordering them off the ticketmaster website. The concert is at the end of March and is a dual event with Death Cab For Cutie, of whom I've only vaguely heard. Anyone out there know more ( Read more... )

I was just musing on coincidences. I'm still in the midst of cataloguing my mp3s, and today I put my Barenaked Ladies mp3s on. I bought my first BNL album my sophomore year of high school, based on one song they played on David Letterman the night David Duchovny (of X-Files fame) was on. They let DD play the maracas on the song, so I went and ( Read more... )

I am now completely ready for bed. It is only 9:30. Seriously, I don't know what this is about. I have to get up ridiculously early again, then go and be bored at a conference. I am not excited. I'm also not particularly tired. I don't know - I'm still in the middle of my epic quest to properly document and organize all of my mp3s, and the current ( Read more... )