We haven't done this in a while.

iPod reportage with bonus did-I-skip-or-delete notage (with no noteage indicating they were listened to and kept):

bemsha swing - thelonious monk (from brilliant corners which was downloaded on rec of joe b. about an eon ago it seems)
cortez the killer (live) - built to spill
i'll be you - mats
television man - talking heads (skipped - wasn't feeling it but didn't delete)
I hear...goodnight - low and dirty three (skipped because i listen to this album constantly)
southern anthem - iron & wine (skipped, not one of my favorites but not so much that i'd delete right yet)
an attempt to tip the scales - bright eyes (skipped as soon as the talking part starts - i need to edit the mp3 because i love the first part)
king of carrot flowers pt 1 - nmh (it's so hard not to just listen to the whole album after hearing this song)
fools we are as men - ryan adams
punk love - magnetic fields (deleted - sorry, it just doesn't give me the shuffle-able vibe)
untitled - akron family (deleted - takes too long to start)
phantasies - s. malkmus
holiday - weezer
stevie nix - hold steady ("oh to be 17 forever!")
luther played the boogie - j. cash
sing me to sleep - the smiths (deleted - i just can't take this song seriously anymore - it makes me laugh)
do you want new wave or do you want the truth - minutemen
love you alice - apples in stereo

That's it for iPod cleansing tonight. By the way - I'm not making much progress I've gone from around 6600 to 5910 songs.

it's so hard not to just listen to the whole album after hearing this song

Opinion Advanced by Hec Tonight: "Aeroplane might be the last of the listen-all-the-way-through records."

I read about YouTube.com in NYTimes

Et tu, Brute? Does everyone on this board have me on their idiot filter?

Say, whatever happened to that guy from Austin, liked Moby Dick a lot? Didn't he used to post in this thread all the time?

Say, whatever happened to that guy from Austin, liked Moby Dick a lot? Didn't he used to post in this thread all the time?

I think he's returning some dead guy's head to Mexico - there's a reward or something...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I've passed through the Scary Door!

Predictable but interesting article in today's Washington Post about the triumph of singles over albums due to mp3 players:

In late December 2005, weekly singles sales topped CD sales for the first time, as American consumers... purchased 19.9 million digital tracks but just 16.8 million albums, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Article: [link]

Et tu, Brute? Does everyone on this board have me on their idiot filter?

What? Did I skip over you? Bring me the head of Corwood Inviso!

Btw, did you ever read the comic book The Badger by Mike Baron in the 80s? One of the recurring characters was the ghost of Warren Oates.

Can't talk. Buried in a shallow grave next to the body of my prostitute lover. It's all Dub Taylor's fault, somehow.

Don't look now, Corwood, but R.G. Armstrong is reading your eulogy...