Not About My Sick Wife - Music
Posted on: 2010-06-16 11:26:52

I am listening to Regina Spektor today instead of going to work. Ok, the wife is in one of her delirium episodes of sickness and I am sticking around to take care of her, but I am listening to Miss Spektor while she is sleeping. I discovered (and fell in love with) her on the Pandora internet radio service. I have been meaning to buy a couple of her albums for awhile now, and figured today was as a good a day as any (besides, smaller purchases keep me from making much larger ones).

I could sit here and wax intellectual about why I really enjoy her music, but I won't. I often have difficulty pinning down an explanation to why things pique my interest, but right now this is it.

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Changing the vibe. - Music
Posted on: 2009-08-31 16:56:50

The wife and I have been using Pandora a lot lately. It is a wonderful online music source, all streaming. Pandora uses the Music Genome Project (same company, differnet titles), which strives to 'capture the essence of music at a fundamental level'. If you are not deeply affected by music, that phrase will probably bounce right off of you. As a user, the way it works is simple, visit the site, punch in an artist or song that typifies what you want to hear, and Pandora will build a station, or ongoing playlist, from you suggestion. You may never hear your suggestion if it is a song, but you will hear a plethora of similar music. You can also add a bit of variety by adding in futher suggestions to your station. As music pops up, you can vote it up or down to refine you station a little more. Every artist/song you add or remove changes the overall vibe of the station. Most of the times you will be surprised by how accurate it is, but on occasion you will get a bad one.

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WMHD - Music
Posted on: 2007-10-01 00:26:12

Another reason to love WMHD, right now they are playing music from the Final Fantasy games.

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