tunequest

for the week ending may 20, 2006. stats: a superlative week here at tunequest. 394 songs played over 25 hours and 40 minutes. a further 5 songs were removed from the library for a net progress of 399, a new record. frankly, i'm surprised by the results. an afternoon braves game and a couple of extented meetings cut into my normal office listening time and i didn't ...

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Today's I-285 adventure was sponsored by Philip Glass' 1996 "Heroes" Symphony (or Glass' Symphony No 4), a fantastic orchestral suite in 6 parts that's based on but not an orchestral transcription of the Bowie/Eno album of the same name. Unlike some of glass compositions, which can be inaccessable at times, this symphony is very compelling. Yeah, it's full of his trademark cyclicality, but because it is rooted in a ...

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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 of times. However, ...

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