When will certain people realize- an afterlife is nothing to live for Nothing to die for Nothing to fight for If those in this life are not sacred, then nothing that’s a part of it is sacred either If you think God is more important than your neighbor, you’re capable of terrible evil If you think some prophet’s words are more important than your brother and your sister You’re ill And you’re wrong You’re wrong.
As far as cheap thrills go, Smule’s Ocarina application for the iPhone ranks pretty highly. To play a note one blows into the phone’s microphone and touches a combination of the screen’s four hotspots.
I read the notes off the screen as I played. Lots of other Zelda songs have also been written up by the application’s community but ‘The Song of Time’ is one of the easiest to play.
The blogosphere has recently fallen in praise at the feet of a new application currently released in its beta stage, called Spotify. I too am excited about this application, it has some very nice perks.
But, enough of that. Let’s put this thing to the test.
Because there is no way for me to scientifically test this application in any reasonable amount of time I am simply going to pit Spotify against my 20 most listened to artists in the past 3 months according to my last.fm. This is an interesting test for me because I download most of my music from illegitimate (but brilliant) sources. (In fact I download all of it, but I also buy cds and visit concerts if I enjoy the music.) Perhaps if a service such as Spotify allowed me to properly ‘test’ music, I would be less inclined to download it. I want to see if Spotify would have been a reasonable substitute for illegal downloading by seeing what percentage of the music I have enjoyed most recently could have been streamed on their service. Continue reading
I generally dislike tradition and I have never subscribed to the notion that New Year’s resolutions are anything but futile. That said, I do have one New Year’s tradition which has so far lasted me since 2006 (what a run, right?). I take the time to cut down my yearly music dump playlist down it my true favorites of the year. In the process, I take out any song which featured the previous year, cut almost all artists down to just one song and remove anything that I’m not totally thrilled about.
Anyway, yesterday I did my final 2008 playlist. Here it is.
Air - Sexy Boy AmpLive - Reckonerz (ft. Charli2na) Archive - Fuck U Basshunter - Patrik And The Small Guy – Throw Your Hands Up Beirut - Nantes Ben Folds - The Frown Song Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone Brand New - Untitled 02 Bright Eyes - Lover I Don’t Have To Love Clearlake - Keep Smiling Conor Oberst - Lenders in the Temple Crystal Castles - Crimewave (Crystal Castles VS HEALTH) Daft Punk - Veridis Quo Death Cab For Cutie - Grapevine Fires Death Cab For Cutie - Styrofoam Plates The Decemberists - Record Year Deerhoof - Believe E. S. P. The Dexateens - Slender Thread DJ Blow - Title and Registration Elbow - Weather to Fly Electric Six - Dance Pattern Eminem - Rock Bottom The Faint - Worked Up So Sexual Finch - Ender The Flaming Lips - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song Flobots - Handlebars Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Bunting Song Gym Class Heroes - Cupid’s Chokehold (feat. Patrick Stump) Interpol - Pioneer To The Falls Jonathan Coulton - Re: Your Brains Justice - The Party Kanye West - Stronger The Killers - Spaceman LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down Matisyahu - King Without A Crown MC Lars - Space Game Metric - Combat Baby MGMT - Kids Middleman - Good To Be Back Modest Mouse - Fire It Up Murder By Death - The Devil Drives Murder By Death - Spring Break 1899 Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Nine Inch Nails - Discipline of Montreal - Gallery Piece Panic At The Disco - That Green Gentlemen (Things Have Changed) Pendulum - The Otherside Pixies - Where Is My Mind? PJ Harvey - The Piano Psapp - Hill Of Our Home Queens Of The Stone Age - Suture Up Your Future Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees Serj Tankian - Empty Walls The Shins - Saint Simon Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War Stars - Going, Going, Gone [Live] Sufjan Stevens - For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected Weezer - Pork & Beans Wolf Parade - You Are A Runner And I Am My Father’s Son
Is this something you do? Will think of doing it now?
(list compiled by exporting playlist as unicode text and importing it into excel before editing.)