Die meme, die
If you read a bunch of blogs, you may have noticed this little musical blog letter being passed around. Yes, I got it awhile ago, but I thought it was spam and ignored it. It's the one that wants you to pass it onto other bloggers, etc. Then I got it again, and I'm not a big fan of chain-stuff, so I ignored it for different reasons, and then I started seeing it around on a bunch of the sites I ping.
I still ignored them, because I figured since people were posting it it would run its course fairly quickly. The flaw in my logic is that since people saw I hadn't posted it, they assumed I hadn't gotten it, and so the volume of them has actually increased rather than decreased. The only way I can think of to end the situation is:
- Post about it, asking people to not send it on, which would be kinda lame.
- Fill the damn thing out, and be done with it, which would take about as much time as #1 and make me feel like less of an asshat.
Quite the little bastard, this one is.
Total volume of music files on my computer
102 GB. My music drive has a capacity of 120 GB raw, and HFS+ is often not a happy camper once you go above 80% or so, so I'm a little nervous. I fear having to re-rip all my CDs, and would probably just listen to the radio for awhile.
The last CD I bought was...
Wise and Otherwise, by Harry Manx
(This was the fourth time I've bought this total, this last time was a gift for the lawyerly type since he likes blues guitar and Harry Manx's covers of 'Foxy Lady' and 'Crazy Love' have to be heard to be believed)
Song playing right now...
'Harder Better Faster Stronger', by Daft Punk
Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me...
Erm, too much effort. But it's not hard to grab the last five songs that I played. It's set to random, but I wouldn't have 'em in my library if I didn't like them...
- 'Life on Mars?', by Seu Jorge
- 'U-Mass', by The Pixies
- 'Not if you were the last junkie on earth', by The Dandy Warhols
- 'Hard Row' by The Black Keys
- 'Crablouse', by Lords of Acid
People I'm passing this on to...
*stomps*
(Don't get upset. If it's meant to be, it'll survive this)
Posted by drunkenbatmanMay 27, 2005, at 01:10 PM
Comments (10)
Posted by: Nell at May 27, 2005 01:32 PM
Thank you! The damn baton must die.
Posted by: Kasper Jeppesen at May 27, 2005 02:19 PM
Seems like my drunkenblog weblog-chain-post finally got through to the world:
1) Invent a stupid weblog-chain-post which forces bloggers to provide us with annoying details about their life
2) Mail the chain-post to i (at) drunkenblog [dot] com requesting that he participate
3) Pass this chain-post to at least three other bloggers
Sit back and watch the anger grow at your favorite tech blog =)
Posted by: Ben at May 27, 2005 04:47 PM
If he needs to warn anyone about LOA, it's because they suck.
OOOOH! FACE!
Posted by: at May 28, 2005 08:35 AM
I wish people would post links to the band's website when they do this. The only names I've heard of are Pixies and Dandy Warhols, but have never heard of "UMass" and I have most of their albums. Which is it from?
"Life on Mars?" is a David Bowie song, but I've never of of Jorge. Is it a cover?
Posted by: irc at May 28, 2005 11:59 AM
yea, it's a bowie cover. if you've seen "the life aquatic with steve zissou" (http://lifeaquatic.movies.go.com), he's the guy sitting on the deck of the ship playing bowie covers on a spanish guitar and singing the lyrics in portugese. it works very well. actually, the movie would have been horribly flat if it wasn't for his poignant musical interludes.
personally though, i think the best two bowie covers are the live version of "life on mars?" by the divine comedy (http://www.thedivinecomedy.com/) and "ziggy stardust" by the gourds (http://www.thegourds.com). the latter being even better than the original (gasp!). both can be found on the "starman: live and rare bowie covers" cd which came with a copy of uncut magazine two years ago. it's worth the hunt for it.
Posted by: Martey at May 28, 2005 01:15 PM
U-Mass is from Trompe le Monde.
Posted by: Ankalon at May 28, 2005 03:03 PM
Can we go back to desktop screenshots? That one was .jpg-licious.
Posted by: Cortland Klein at May 29, 2005 06:16 AM
You know, you can sort by play count and derive a rough idea of the actual popularity of your songs. Less efficient when dealing with a library of both old and new songs.
Now if only iTunes had an average frequency value...
Posted by: Peter da Silva at June 1, 2005 04:56 PM
You people are doing this the hard way. Just sign up at Audioscrobbler (click on my name) download iScrobbler, plug it in to iTunes, and then watch your songs and artists get sorted into favorites right before your eyes.
Pretty soon you'll find that you're considering compatibility with audioscrobbler.com as a reason for picking one MP3 player over another. You'll get into flame wars over the proper spelling of obscure Japanese composers. You'll start posting about using it to analyze the aggregate musical tastes of Mac, Windows, and Linux users...
http://blogs.msdn.com/cambecc/archive/2005/01/29/363041.aspx
Hey DB. Just a suggestion, but you should warn people about LOA. Hard techno and erotica.