music

I meant to post about this a long time ago, but when Blogger discontinued publishing via FTP, I hit some snags trying to create a new setupfor my blog and website. If you see this, then I guess I’ve got it working now; the blog is hosted by Google, and the non-blog parts of thesite...

I recently bought three albums: Paramore’s “Brand New Eyes”,Rise Against’s “Appeal To Reason”, andKings of Leon’s “Only By The Night”. So far, “Brand New Eyes” is the onegrabbing my attention with several good songs and some variety of style. And, as always with Paramore, Hayley Williams’ voice is amazing.After “Ignorance”, the angry song getting play...

Nothing Better, by The Postal Service, is my new current favorite song. It's a great back-and-forth-between-a-boy-and-a-girl duet. My favorite part is this rebuttal by the girl:I feel I must interject hereYou're getting carried away Feeling sorry for yourselfWith these revisionsAnd gaps in historySo let me help you remember.I've made charts and graphs that should finally...

Want help finding music that you'll like? Pandora is a system for doing that based on musical analysis of songs. You put in an artist or song, and it creates a "station" based on that artist or song, playing similar songs. For now it's free during preview, so sign up to try it out.

I've got quite a back-log of TiVo'd movies to blog about. We started to watch Funny Face, but turned it off quickly, reinforcing the conclusion that I really don't like musicals. In fact, I can only think of two musicals off-hand that I've enjoyed. The first is The Wizard of Oz, though I think it's...