tunequest

The official start date for the tunequest was feb. 11. I actually started formulating the idea on the 10th, but it took until the next day to fully formulate my methodology. even though the date passed last saturday, i think it's worth noting that, if i had managed to stay awake and do nothing but listen to my iTunes library, i would have finished on march 25. ...

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i've done a fair amount of weeding over the past couple days and probably reduced the tunequest by a day as a result. some early pizzicato five (i like P5, but by her majesty's request is unlistenable) and some aphrodite (my love affair with drum and bass has largely run its course) didn't make the cut and were, well, cut. i also made the single largest ...

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exclusively composed music today it seems, mostly from film and television, though the most excellent slavonic dances were mixed in as well. bavarian radio orchestra performing dvorak's slavonic dances op.46 joseph loduca [army of darkness] alan silvestri [back to the future] christopher franke [babylon 5: in the beginning] the boston pops ...

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i spent the past few days in boston and have some sore legs and about 330 photos to show for it. i had fun; boston has earned a place on my 'favorite cities' list, which includes pittsburgh, paris, and the strip in vegas. the side effect, of course, is that outside of my normal daily routine, i had far less opportunity to tunequest. so now, i'm ...

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On the flight home from Boston, I listened to the soundtrack to Dr. No, the original James Bond film, composed by Monty Norman. B'jebus! It is terrible. I'm no fan of calypso and Carribean music in general, so the record starts at a deficit. And from there, it doesn't make any headway. How many versions of that damn mango tree song do we really need to hear? Honestly, ...

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contrary to what one may think, given conventional wisdom, weekends are not the boom time of music listening that one would expect them to be. lots of free time should equal lots of play time. but of course there are commitments and chores and errands and all kinds of other activities that get in the way. i'm certain it would not be good for my marriage ...

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I did some thinking today about my library and listening to music in general. I'm 27; given the average American life expectancy, I've got another 50 years in me. If the size of my iTunes library remains constant (big if), I could expect to listen to every song in it a maximum of 429 times, if i were to listen to each song an equal number ...

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a solid 3 hours and 40 minutes in today, which doesn't seem long enough to have covered all the items below. but a lot of them are singles, just 2-4 songs each, plus i don't actually list an album here until i've played all its songs. i had 6 songs left in the soul coughing show and only the last 2 of sigur ros' (). so ...

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beware the ides of march indeed. today's showing is a rather pitiful 16 songs. That's just one complete album and a handful of live Soul Coughing tracks. gomez [bring it on] So it was a short day, but a quality one. One that answers the question "what do brits do when they get the blues?" the answer is "Bring It On." Sporting a trio ...

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