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My recent playlist hasn't updated in days, a song that I listened to just once ("Laid") is listed as my most listened tune/artist, and I go back and forth from "below the radar" to "blazing" without much rhyme or reason. Is this what it was like for the first adopters of Bell's telephone?! I do enjoy reading other MOGS' blogs...resulting in a self-imposed budget on new iTunes purchases after a two-week buying frenzy.
Tipped off by Cool Hunting, I found this nifty little program for the Mac OS. CoverFlow lets you see your entire iTunes collection as moveable 3-D album art. It also works with iTunes to start playing the selected album (it even has utilities to find album art that you don't have loaded). As someone with still a few crates of LPs in the basement, but uses playlists in iTunes almost exclusively, I had forgotten the joy of listening to entire albums all at once. Sifting through my collection this way has reminded of me of some neglected gems. CoverFlow is free, by the way, but you can make a paypal donation to its creator.
UPDATE: I just discovered Moof's blog entry on this too. Is there a way to to search blog entries for "Other Tags?"
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Very cool program! Thanks for the suggestion. I also like the clutter program, which allows you to lay all your albums on the desktop, and go through them like real albums.
completely unrelated to this post: the girl in me just "awwwwww"-ed really loud when i saw your mog picture.
Thanks to Adam Curry's Daily Source Code podcast, I discovered the music of Mike Viola and the Candy Butchers. If you like great pop music, you really ought to give "Hang on Mike" a try. One song in particular gets played at least once a week on my iPod--"What to Do With Michael." It's an autobiographical song about Viola's real-life romance with a woman he met in Paris after his first wife died of cancer. She was studying abroad and he was on tour, so they had to say goodbye until they met up again in New York, where they watched "The Spirit of St. Louis" in Bryant Park on their first date. They've been together ever since, as Viola sings:
Now my friend, they are inseparable She even gets that boy to go to the gym Now if you don't think that's love, you must by cynical Or maybe man, you're just dreaming in French, yeah
'Cause she knows what to do with Michael She knows how to make him feel That he's the one, he's his mother's son, not like anyone He just needed time to heal Well that's right, he just needed time to heal
My affection for this song is partly due to my being able to relate to parts of their story, but I think it's also one of the most romantic songs I have heard in a while. I wondered what happened to these two (the album came out in '04), and I was pleased to see that just today Mike Viola posted an entry on his website about his life with his wife and daughter, Isabel, including the picture below. See, you love cynics, happy endings still happen all the time!
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Man, what a great story, and an awesome picture to go with it. I, too, am the proud victim of a happy ending, and I really enjoyed this tale.
oh yea- since you're apparently one of my musical twins I'll refer you to the candy butchers "blue thumb record" i did a post on a while ago - never released and a total shame. used to be able to find it online as mp3s off a web site - not sure now. . . really really a shame. . . a few songs from that are on the Live At The Bonbonierre EP
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you don't expect this thing to work, do you? geez.