#Music

iTunes Random?

iTunes played She Wants Revenge followed by New Order. There is no way that was random. It’s like iTunes thought “you just listened to the copy, now I’ll play the original.” I wish I understood the crazy AI they call Party Shuffle.

i was born (a unicorn)

I talked with this homeless guy for an hour a couple weeks ago. He’s never been married and has nobody now. For the first time ever I saw a future where I floated from city to city alone.

I missed the ark but I could have sworn you’d wait for me. I was born a unicorn. I could have sworn you believed in me. Then how come all the other unicorns are dead?

iTunes Ratings

Okay, iTunes has the cool new ratings thing. You can rank songs on a five star system and it will use that to manage playlists. What occurred to me is that my opinions of songs change over time. It would be nice if kept historical records of my ratings.

I wonder if any software out there tracks your music tastes and tries to note historical trends.

the package

the package: the pack-age ([th]& ‘pa-kij) noun: The creamy, yummy center. The part of a work that goes above and beyond the expectations of the listener/viewer/reader. The package experience manifests itself physically in any number of ways but they all can be described as a moment when, however briefly, the person transcends life as he knows it and glimpses something bigger. <that song really delivers the package.>

I’ve been building a list of songs that deliver the package. The limitations are that it has to fit on one 74 minute audio CD. Here is what I have so far in track order: