Monthly Archives: October 2005

Start your iPods

  1. Lucinda Williams - Broken Butterflies. B
  2. Fleetwood Mac - What Makes You Think You're The One? C
  3. Bob Dylan - I Want You. D
  4. Nirvana - Beeswax. C
  5. Nick Drake - Fruit Tree. B
  6. The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang. A
  7. The Soft Boys - Sudden Town. C
  8. Neutral Milk Hotel - The Fool. C
  9. Fiona Apple - A Mistake. A
  10. Robyn Hitchcock - The Devil's Coachman (live). C

Not a strong start this week. I think this means I hate my job.

Skin Scam

Yahoo (via BoingBoing) reports that the tattoo business in New Orleans is booming, as people rush to get some kind of Katrina reminder injected into their skin. This reminds me... When Mrs Cleek and I went to the tattoo place last weekend (in Raleigh, NC), the guy who was doing her tattoo said that he'd had two different people from New Orleans come in to get tattoos in the past week, and each had paid with their FEMA money cards.

Oh well...

Donuthead

I stopped at a Dunkin Donuts drive-thru today to get some donuts for the office. The guy asks for my order, and I say "I want to get a dozen donuts."

He says "Seven?".

"No," I say as slowly, loudly and clearly as I can, "I want a dozen."

He says "Seven ? You know, twelve is really a better value."

I sigh and reply, "OK".

Ooohhh statistics

This looks like fun: iTunes collection statistics (guaranteed to be of interest to nobody but me!).

Songs: 6,513
Artists: 641
Albums: 696
(Wow, need to rip some more of my CDs)

First Album: 'Round About Midnight
Last Album: Zydeco Dynamite

First Artist: 'Til Tuesday
Last Artist: ZZ Top

Songs purchased from iTunes: 656
Songs with no track number: 441
Songs with no album listed: 293
Single album with most songs (no multi-discs) : Guitarrorists (26)

Most Songs By Artist:
Robyn Hitchcock: 204 (plus Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians: 46, for a tiebreak with The Cure)
The Cure: 204 (plus The Cure with Earl Slick: 1)
Pavement: 125
Yo La Tengo: 119
Sonic Youth: 99
Smaller Animals: 96
REM: 95
Cowboy Junkies: 82
Beatles: 77
White Stripes: 75
(yipes. early 90's alternative much?)

Most songs by 'cuss' word:
Fuck: 10
Shit: 5
Piss: 5
Bitch: 4
Ass: 4

Most songs by city:
Chicago: 6
Memphis: 6
New York City : 4
Manhattan: 3
Stockholm: 2
LA: 2
London: 2
St. Louis: 2
Box Elder: 2
Queens: 2
Birmingham, Hoboken,Brooklyn,Clarksville,Kansas City,Las Vegas,Nashville,Paris,Dallas,Atlanta,San Francisco,Seattle,Boston,Statesboro,Ventura,Mobile,Woodstock,Milwaukee,Moscow, Baton Rouge, Minneapolis: 1

By Color:
Red: 64
Blue: 51
Black: 39
Green: 29
White: 14
Pink: 9
Gray/Grey: 6
Orange: 5
Purple: 5
Yellow: 3
Violet: 1

Songs with the word:
Blues: 90
Love: 163
Hate: 10
Day: 137
Night: 88
Life: 54
Death: 13
Heart: 51
Rock: 29
Roll: 18
Soul: 14
Money: 8
Heaven: 20
Hell: 21
Hard: 17
Soft: 3

Well, it was fun for me.

Start Your iPods

  1. Yo La Tengo - Blue Line Swinger. Nine minutes long...
  2. fieldfresh - Blinded
  3. Grateful Dead - Johnny B Goode. go go.
  4. Doc Watson - Doc's Guitar
  5. Sleater-Kinney - Male Model
  6. Doc Watson - Windy and Warm
  7. Led Zeppelin - Living Loving Maid
  8. The Shins - Sphagnum Esplanade. great name.
  9. Spoon - Everything hits at once. This album will always remind me of driving to the beach. Seems wrong to hear it anywhere else.
  10. Nirvana - Big Long Now

Incoherent. I think it means I hate my job. (boss standing in back of me while I type this - ah irony)