I hear they are high-energy mayhem. Also, they talk in Swedish Chef accents. It's at Popscene, which means high-energy mayhem from the 18 year olds also. I say yay. Unfortunately, I'm fucking exhausted from staying up for MF Doom last night, so I may need talking into. Someone bolster my spirits. Thanks in advance.
If you want to see Mirah on Friday, Feb. 9, I have an extra ticket. She's at the Bottom of the Hill. Tickets are available & cheap. She is the best. If her live shows are half as good as her singles, it will be very very enjoyable.
This is a plug-in for iTunes that goes through your music for you and can find similar songs to any song you pick. It only works on the PC, but they claim their Mac version is coming soon. I was not excited about it, but didn't have a better way to spend fifteen minutes.
I have 70 GB of music, 50 GB of which I've never listened to. Lots of it came from friends with excellent taste in music, and lots apparently came from some emo jackass. Why do I have Less Than Jake in my music library? Why do I have Taking Back Sunday in my music library? If I ever discover who gave me that music, I will ridicule them mercilessly.
So listening to random unplayed songs on my iPod is a terrible experience. http://www.thefilter.com/ to the rescue. I select a particularly archetypal "Less Than Jake" track, and let The Filter find similar tracks. It builds me a heady but emotional playlist featuring the artists Unwritten Law, The Get Up Kids, The Anniversary, Saves The Day, Alkaline Trio and Fenix Tx.
Those are six phenomenally shitty bands, and I'd never heard of any of them before. I had two or three full albums from each. Now I can delete them all, and they will never bother me again. "The Filter" is extremely useful software. Unfortunately, it crashes all the time, has a godawful GUI, and takes a minute or two to initialize itself. It doesn't crash iTunes, though, so you can usually keep working.
I'd say this kind of stuff was making me into a russophile (if all these cyrillic typers were Russian, anyway), but it's probably more that I'm an americanophilephile. And I've always been one of those. If you see what I mean.
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