Want to Listen to a Bunch of Free Music

... which is based off your favorite artist or song - a generated playlist? One that you can change the song, the lineup, and have multiple playlists saved? All online, for free?

Well, heck yes! But there's no way anyone would do that for free.

I've never been so glad to be proved wrong.

Basically what you do is go to MSN's new Pandora Radio and type in your favorite band or song. A playlist is generated based on that, and you get to listen to the entire thing for free.

Just found it today. I've been messing with it. I'm pretty much in love.

Of Insensibilities

I came home from Ashland yesterday night. Almost simultaneously with my stepping in the door, my cell rang. I picked up, and the call was ended. I saw who called - it was Bacon from school. His cell randomly calls people; it's demented like that. I called him back and asked him what was up. After apologizing on behalf of his phone, he explained that he had just gotten back from being in Ashland in Oregon, where he had been at the Shakespeare Festival.

Well, that pretty much struck me dumb. After making sure he wasn't lying, I found he had even been to the same play Saturday night that I had - The Taming of the Shrew. Ashland isn't that big a town. I have no idea how we missed seeing one another. It was pretty strange.

On a side note, Bacon and I have some unfinished business left over from the schoolyear. We must burn Bacon's bunnies and kitties - small stuffed ones he was given for that purpose on his birthday - in creatively explosive ways. I have yet to work out when or how, but it will happen, and my pyromania will (hopefully) be temporarily assuaged.

Aside from these extremely coincidental occurrences, I have two three things to say: one, that I have been so lazy that I have not called either my current nor my potential jobs to fix them up, and two, that I really need to go to bed. and three, that the series Dark Angel starring Jessica Alba is stupid, and I now know why they show it at midnight.

Nature Is Pretty

... in case you were unaware.

Went for a walk in the park the other day... Look who modeled for me.

The Vacation

Leaving for Ashland tomorrow. I'll be gone until the 19th. We're going past Portland on our way... I was hoping we'd get to stop by this really really good seafood joint in Newport, but alas, it is too far out of our way. Doubt it'll be on the way back either. I suppose I'll have to clamp down my craving for delicious crustaceans and merely enjoy the rest of my Shakespearean-themed vacation.

Of Secret Weapons

I've finally found out the real purpose of the paper shredder... it's been masquerading as innocent this whole time.

Music + Discovery

= Musicovery!

This site is a rather well-polished little gem I found. I play around with it when I get tired of listening to my own music library but don't really know anything new I want from LimeWire. Sometimes it gives me great new songs, other times it just sort of makes me cringe and rush to change the song. Either way, I love the fact that you can pick your playlist based on genre, mood, tempo, or a combination of these.

You should check it out.

SINGLE WHINE: No skip button. You click on a new song, it switches the playlist order. Annoying as heck until you decide to ignore it. >_>

I'm Such a Nerd

Look, I make rice tiger.

Reviewing Some Stuff, Because I Feel Like It

We're now watching the Chronicles of Narnia, even though I've seen it more than enough times for my lifetime. Also I've read the book too many times to think of the movie as a completely different adventure from the book, so as a result I can't see the movie without comparing the two versions. And while the movie is good, I think the books preserve a certain character of childlike adventure that I grew up loving and still adore (which is likely why I love books like Tom Sawyer and Peter Pan). The movie does not do this at all. It tries to make the story of Light and Hope Combating Monsters more dark than it should be. The movie lessens the sense of innocence and childlike faith that's in the books to almost nil. Maybe I'm just prejudiced. I love the soundtrack, though. CoN gets 4 of 5 stars, mostly for great special effects and for Georgie Henley.

I just saw The Illusionist recently. I have to admit it is exactly my type of movie: one isn't certain what is real and what is pretend until the end, and there's enough fantasy and somehow-noble-duplicity mixed in to give the whole movie a fascinating undertone. I have yet to read the short story that it was loosely based off of, but I'll see if I can't find it (or an anthology containing it). For the moment, this movie has become one of my favorites. 4 1/2 of 5 stars.

My sister wants to see Flushed Away again. I think it's a funny movie, but there's a bit too much American comedy in what should be a British comedy. Perhaps not entirely, but my penchant for British comedy (Monty Python and Spike Milligan are weak spots for me) completely sways me. Plus the story happens in England, anyways. Very nice animation, though, and some of the lines and jokes off of other movies are worth a few good chuckles. 3 1/2 of 5 stars.

I Don't Feel Like This

"Don't feel like what?" You ask.

You don't have a right to know. I don't have to answer. Cryptic sentences, I have decided, are now the order of the day.

For the remaining half-hour of it, anyway.

(Incredible artist. I like this one.)