tunequest

what a day! 91 songs played and 5+ hours of listening. that's what i need to be doing everyday. it's not likely to happen, but it is something to strive for. also, it seems that this tunequest page has managed to obtain a google pagerank of 4 in just over a month. from what i understand, that's pretty good, so huzzah for tunequest! bjork ...

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out with the old, in with the new. tunequest is now powered by one of those new-fangled intel-powered imacs. getting it set up and customized took a good portion of my weekend, but my first impressions are quite positive. the thing is remarkably fast. it's not perfect, but is a large improvement over the previous g4. for one thing, iTunes isn't nearly as sluggish, and that ...

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if you're into pictures and charts (and who isn't?), i've posted some graphs of my progress. r.e.m. [automatic for the people] gustav holst's suite no.1 in e-flat (performer unknown) christopher franke [babylon 5: z'ha'dum] berlin philharmonic performing dvorak's concerto for cello and orchestra mercury rev [deserter's songs] ...

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my string of lackluster weekends continues. sigh. though to be honest i was a bit distracted by massive data loss brought on by severe incompetence. yes, i accidentally erased my imac's hard drive while attempting to install tiger on my old g3 powerbook. i was going to wipe the drive in a week anyway, after my new intel imac arrived and i'd copied my files to ...

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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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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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