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I am officially declaring this the week that I have discovered internet radio. Granted this is not the first week that I’ve listened to streaming music over the internet (it’s been available in iTunes for a while now), but this week that it has started to grow on me. Things can be rather slow at work on Thursday nights, so I decided some music was in order. Of course, my entire music library is at home and not at the office. I fired up iTunes (which I had installed at work to manage a bunch of sermons I downloaded from the seminary’s website), and clicked on the radio module. After browsing around and trying a few stations, I found a nice classical station—Mostly Classical—that played some really good stuff.

However, that wasn’t the end of it. Tonight at home, I found two other interesting stations. The first is Digitally Imported – Hard House. Maybe it’s all that DDR I’ve been playing, but I’ve begun to take an interest in some forms of electronic music. It just so happened that the aforementioned station was playing a really good CD when I tuned in (“Hardhouse” CD 2 published by ID&T, to be exact). I was hooked almost instantly. I sat back and turned on G-Force, which must be made for this kind of music because the visualization was perfect. It’s too bad that the CD is from the Netherlands, and I couldn’t even find it on eBay.

The second good station that I discovered tonight is Best of the 80′s. Given my keen interest in 80′s music (particularly that of the New Wave variety), this station was a natural choice.

I logged into my blog administration interface ready to post a nice new entry, and then I glanced at the recent comments box. “texas holdem”? “uk propecia”? Dang it! Comment spam!

I probably had to delete about 50 comments from various posts, which took a good deal of time and was highly annoying. Stupid comment spammers, we don’t want your filthy wares. GO AWAY!!!

Anyway… This week’s musical find is the Scissor Sisters. You may be familiar with their disco infused radio hit “Take Your Mama”, however I’m a little more fond of the unique sound of “Laura”. The video is also fun.

“No One Knows” by Queens Of The Stone Age.

After the band hits a deer with their jeep, the deer gets revenge.

Real (Stream) [Hosting Site]
Windows Media (Stream) [Found Here]

(I haven’t found a good Quicktime/MPEG version yet. If anyone finds one, let me know.)

…the last track of a CD contains two songs separated by an extended period of silence? That pisses me off so much!

1. It totally screws up the listening experience if you have the player set to shuffle.
2. It even screws up the listening experience if you are merely listening to multiple CD’s in a row.
3. When I rip the CD, I have to take the extra time to slice the track into its parts and cut out the silence.

While I’m all in favor of bands putting secret extras on their albums, for the love of Pete, simply make it an extra track! Stop this extended final track nonsense! ::GRRRRR::

What song does big Pete use like “a giant funk magnet” to attract Artie, the strongest man in the world, in the first episode of The Adventures of Pete and Pete, “Day of the Dot”?

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