I like El Perro Del Mar. They're a neat group.

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Damien Rice and Ray Lamontague acoustic duet for The Beegee\'s \"You Don\'t Know What It\'s Like.\"

Mostly, I\'m wondering if there\'s a rule that soulful emotastic male singer-songwriters aren\'t allow to shave or cut their hair.

Did anyone already post the outcry over Prince's appearance at the Super Bowl? That's the source of my awesome tagline: [link].

There was much mocking over in Natter or Bitches; can't remember which.

I wish I'd caught that because reading those complaints made my day.

Corwood: Strega "Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno." Mar 7, 2007 2:29:51 pm PST

That will take you to where it started, so you don't have to slog through Natter.

Thanks, Frank! That was fun.

The WFMU blog has posted A Bunch of Theremin Videos.

Thanks, tommy. Nothing I haven't seen before, but a great introduction for those less obsessed than I.

Science is endeavoring to be able to tell things about a person just based on what music they listen to....

The fundamental question guiding our research program is, Why do people listen to music? Although the answer to this question is undoubtedly complex and beyond the scope of a single article, we attempt to shed some light on the issue by examining music preferences. In this research we take the first crucial steps to developing a theory of music preferences--a theory that will ultimately explain when, where, how, and why people listen to music.

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I haven't had the time to read the whole thing yet....

Funny, I wrote something similar on my blog about Library Thing, but I think the caveat is that your aesthetic choices only say something definitive about you if you really care about aesthetics. The fact that this study only interviewed undergraduates, who are (or at least were when I was an undergrad) most likely to self-identify with a sub-culture based on its aesthetic trappings, seems to make it more likely to skew towards a high correlation between personality and aesthetic choices.

Let me also point out that statements like this...

In short, people who listen to jazz are smart, liberal, adventurous, and poor; people who listen to heavy metal are smart, liberal, adventurous, athletic, and prone to social dominance; people who listen to Madonna or the "Dancing With Wolves" soundtrack are agreeable, conscientious, conservative, rich, happy, dumb, emotionally unstable, and hot; and people who listen to hip hop are extraverted, agreeable, liberal, athletic, and hot. Well, those are the tendencies at least (I've known some smart Madonna fans, though I have to say that they were pretty emotionally unstable).

...make my skin crawl.