Je ne parle pas français

I’m addicted to last.fm.  When I plug my iPod in, like magic, there is a list online of what I have listened to that day.  Some days, it doesn’t work, and you’d think it was the end of the world.  I really genuinely get pissed off when my tracks don’t update to my last.fm page.  Seriously. I understand it’s a sickness.  Or maybe just a silly obsession.  Maybe I just want everyone to know that I LOVE MUSIC MORE THAN YOU DO.  And my last.fm proves it, because I have listened to almost 79,000 songs since I signed up for my account.

I want to hit 100,000.  I only have to listen to 21,000 more songs by the end of the year.  That’s only 1909 songs per month, which averages out to 63.64 songs per day.  Today I listened to 93 songs at work.  OK, I didn’t really LISTEN to them, but they played in the background on my iPod.  I heard them.

So, along with my goal of going to the gym 150 times this year (which I’m SUCKING AT so far), I plan to hit 100,000 songs on last.fm by the end of the year.  Can I do it?

I’ve decided that I’m going to listen to EVERY song that we have in our library. That’s a lot of songs. I’ve been doing it for 5 days now, and I’ve found some great stuff that I didn’t know we had. I suppose I could go through the boxes of CD’s in the basement, but since we’ve gone digital with most everything, I can’t keep track of what we buy as easily.

There was a time when I had to spend half a day alphabetizing CDs after spending the other half of the day cataloging them. Now it’s much easier. I pop the CD in the computer, let iTunes do it’s thing, et voila. It all syncs to CDPedia, which then syncs back to my iPhone, and I have a complete list of what we own at all times. OR, we buy it online, and I don’t even have to worry about the CD part. OR Frank buys it online, and I have no idea that we even have it until I start looking through his iTunes folder…

What I’m getting at, is that I’ve decided to listen to what we already have. To accomplish this, I have set up a genius playlist in iTunes that pulls 100 songs that have a play count = 0 (excluding Christmas music). I have this on in the background at work. There’s some really good stuff… a lot of things I’ve found are songs from CDs that were bought for only a specific track…

I’ve also found some WTF songs in there. There may even be some purging of the library. Seriously, what was I thinking?

So, I decided that I was going to try and make a list of my top 10 favorite songs of all time.  I got it down to 11… and then, as I was listening to it I realized, these may NOT actually be my favorite songs.  Then I started to second guess myself, and rethink the 11 that I had in my top 10.

Then I started adding my REAL top 10 to the 11 I already had.  In the real world, the real top 10 plus the 11 existing choices would be 21… or 34.  I have 34 songs in my top 10.  They all mean something very personal, and I’ve been trying to cut it down, for the last 20 minutes.  I got it down to 39.  Yes, that’s right… take some songs away from the 34 I had, and I’m left with 39.

Doesn’t it make you feel great that I do payroll for a living?

So now I’ve decided to go back to the original 11 in my top 10.  They were the first songs that I thought of for a reason.  They are the songs that I can listen to over and over and never get sick of them.  OK.  I lied.  Back down to 12.  I’ll stop now.

My top 10 (that consists of 12) songs, in no particular order are…

• Older – George Michael
• Mad About You – Hooverphonic
• Constant Craving – kd lang
• The Man With the Child in His Eyes – Kate Bush
• Limits of Our Love – Charlotte Martin
• Summoning of the Muse – Dead Can Dance
• Carolyn’s Fingers – Cocteau Twins
• Be My Hero – October Project
• Good Enough – Sarah McLachlin
• Tear in Your Hand – Tori Amos
• Feels Like I’m Already Flying – Bel Canto
• Let Her Go – Strawberry Switchblade

There.  et fin.

Just testing one of the new features of the updated WordPress.

corryzahn’s Music Profile – Users at Last.fm.

So, I realized that we were using WordPress 2.0.2 on our site, and the most current version is 2.9.1. I’m almost a FULL version behind. Of course, it’s most likely due to the fact that I DON’T EVER POST ANYTHING on here… but that has all been fixed. I have upgraded to the most current version of WordPress, and even installed some nifty new gadgets… or widgets… or something. It’s all supposed to make the site easier for me to still do nothing on. Maybe I should figure out if there is a way to make my blog update my twitter, which in turn updates my facebook…

I know we still have this blog and website, and I hardly ever use it.  As a matter of fact, the last post on here was nearly a year ago, which relegates me to the role of “suckiest blogger ever.”  But I rarely have much to say, and so I have found that Twitter and Facebook end up being an adequate substitute.  I never feel compelled to write witty prose, since I’m limited to only 140 characters.  That’s not a lot of space to say anything, which works out great when you really don’t have much to say.

Les and Casen are in NJ, we at least Les is right now.  Casen is back in Utah visiting his dad for Christmas.  It’s odd without him here.  It’s nice having family around.

I suppose I should get up for the gym in the morning.  I only have to make it 3 more times this year to reach my goal for 2009.  As there are only 7 more days in 2009, I really should get on that.

I think our webhost made some changes, because for a long time, I couldn’t get to any of the pages on our site. I finally had some time this afternoon to sit down and figure it out… It appears that all of our pages were set to 777, and should be 755. I don’t really know what that means, but there was a handy dandy tool on their site that allowed me to change it at their direction, and the site is back up and running (not that I’ll pay a lot of attention to it, DAMN YOU Facebook!).

Things are going well, and spring is finally on it’s way. We are planning to spend the day tomorrow doing yard work. I think this will be the one time this year that I’m excited to do yard work.

just a quick post to say that almost 4 weeks, is not enough time for your stomach to heal enough to handle tomatoes.  I thought it would be a good idea to try that for dinner tonight.

Needless to say, a popsicle quickly took it’s place for dinner.