You don't really care for music, do you?
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tahnanThe truth of the matter is that I don't really care very deeply about music. I mean, sure, I listen to the radio in the car; I'll play music when I'm working at a coffee shop to help remove some of the ambient distraction. But I've never really been a big music buyer or concertgoer. (Or mixed-tape maker.)
On the other hand, I'll occasionally latch onto a song and listen to it over and over for a few days or weeks. "Postcards From Mexico" by Girlyman was such a song; so were "Don't Marry Her" by the Beautiful South (which I heard in a coffee shop, until they suddenly shut it off when a child came in) and "Leeds United" by Amanda Palmer (when I was pointed to the YouTube video for some reason or another).
The current song is "Colors" by April Smith and the Great Picture Show, which I heard by chance in the car on WERS. So I encourage anyone who doesn't know it to go listen. ("Songs for a Sinking Ship", track 6.) I think the rest of their stuff is probably pretty good, but I wouldn't really know because I listened to a handful of other songs and then went back to playing "Colors". Repeatedly.
Unrelatedly, in the interest of closing the tab, Jörg Piringer made a video of the 49,571 displayable Unicode characters in the 0-65536 range. One character per frame, for thirty minutes. If you're me, you'll watch the whole thing (albeit in the background for most of it). If you're not me, you should still go watch it, or at least the first six minutes of it. (After that it's Chinese characters. Twenty-four minutes of Chinese characters. There are a lot of them.)
On the other hand, I'll occasionally latch onto a song and listen to it over and over for a few days or weeks. "Postcards From Mexico" by Girlyman was such a song; so were "Don't Marry Her" by the Beautiful South (which I heard in a coffee shop, until they suddenly shut it off when a child came in) and "Leeds United" by Amanda Palmer (when I was pointed to the YouTube video for some reason or another).
The current song is "Colors" by April Smith and the Great Picture Show, which I heard by chance in the car on WERS. So I encourage anyone who doesn't know it to go listen. ("Songs for a Sinking Ship", track 6.) I think the rest of their stuff is probably pretty good, but I wouldn't really know because I listened to a handful of other songs and then went back to playing "Colors". Repeatedly.
Unrelatedly, in the interest of closing the tab, Jörg Piringer made a video of the 49,571 displayable Unicode characters in the 0-65536 range. One character per frame, for thirty minutes. If you're me, you'll watch the whole thing (albeit in the background for most of it). If you're not me, you should still go watch it, or at least the first six minutes of it. (After that it's Chinese characters. Twenty-four minutes of Chinese characters. There are a lot of them.)
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