Jaffa Cakes and Sodomy

Day 12. A song from a band you hate - How You Remind Me by Nickelback


Obvious choice? Probably. Sorry Canada, but I'll never forgive you for inflicting this dross upon the world. :(

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Day 10. A song that makes you fall asleep - Dodeccaheedron by Aphex Twin


A couple of problems today. Firstly, as an insomniac, I don't think there's any songs that could failsafe send me to sleep so I decided to go with one that just manages to relax me instead. Secondly, I couldn't find my original choice for this one on YouTube. Pity... it's always fun inflicting Merzbow on the unsuspecting. C:

Anyway, yeah... thought I'd go with one of Aphex Twin's calmer tracks instead. Very relaxing.

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When I moved over to Windows I installed iTunes, mainly for the sake of having something familiar around. Here's the thing though - I hate it. It's fugly (it doesn't fit into the desktop properly even on Mac, let alone Windows), it's slow, it uses too much CPU and it's obscenely huge and bloated for something as simple as a music player. So I'm looking for something to replace it. However, I'm kind of unfamiliar with Windows software, so I'm not sure what would be the best tool for the job.

There are some things I like about iTunes though - I wouldn't be using it otherwise. So, is there another Windows media player that has the following features?

• Automatic playlist building based on genre a la Genius (shuffle doesn't really cut it with a music collection as fucked upeclectic as mine)
• Last.fm support
• Playback of m4p files (I only have a few, but I'd quite like to keep them around)
• Automatic file organisation (sorting music you add into Artist/Album folders)
• iPod syncing (not totally necessary as I was thinking of selling my iPod)
• The option of a miniplayer so it's not taking up the entire screen
• Able to handle huge music collections (>16k files)

Any suggestions?

Day 06. A song that reminds you of somewhere - Room of Angel by Akira Yamaoka/Mary Elizabeth McGlynn


It reminds me of my sister's old flat on Woodbine Terrace, which aside from looking like part of the SH2 Otherworld (lol slumlords) was where I first played Silent Hill 4. It was a horrible place, but I admit I kind of miss it - I spent more time there than I did at home (I lived a couple of streets away in an equally decrepit pit owned by the same landlord), sitting around playing games, listening to music, playing bass and getting stoned. Fun times, even though her flat was missing half the toilet floor and had walls virtually built out of damp and my place lacked a kitchen and hot water. :D

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Day 03. A song that makes you happy - Oxyacetylene by Cubanate


A lovely bit of industrial techno today. IDK what it is about this band (and this song in particular), but they always seem to put me in a good mood. :)

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Nabbed from yunghustlaz :

Day 01. Your favourite song - Temptation Waits by Garbage


Tough choice though.

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Considering moving back to self-hosted Wordpress - I kind of miss it, and it's a much nicer platform to work from than LJ. Now I have a static IP address it'll be a much smaller PITA to deal with the DNS stuff too. Probably best to wait until I have a more stable computer though - can't be doing with the site barely being online.

Shouldn't mean much change here in any case - there's a nice plugin to crosspost stuff to LJ, so any real entries I may or may not make will get sent over here along with all the daft memes, Twitter roundups and writers block thingies.

In other news, got around to watching Final Destination 4 *steadfastly refuses to use confusing real name*. After the shitfest that was the third film I wasn't expecting much, but turned out to be pretty fun. :)

From sarshin:

STEP 01 — Load up all your music in your music player and hit shuffle.
STEP 02 — Post the first line of the first 100 songs that pop up.
STEP 03 — Let everyone take a guess at the artist and song.
STEP 04 — ONLY CHEATERS USE GOOGLE!! D:<
STEP 05 — READY STEADY

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Sorry for how mentaleclectic the mix is, BTW...

...or is the new song they added to LittleBigPlanet in the Monster stuff pack very similar to Katyusha? Similar to the point that it has me singing the latter as I'm playing. D:;

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Srsly...

A gobby 72-year-old Texas great-grandmother who got a bit physically "non-compliant" after being pulled for speeding copped a light tasering for her trouble. (El Reg)

...what?


On a more cheerful note, have some music: