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199-Music is music

Image by Michael D. Dunn
I can listen to just about anything. It just depends on my mood or environment. Being in the Marine Corps I have learned to like a lot of music. I had a roommate who was from West Virginia and listened to nothing but country. That’s when I learned that country bars were a GREAT place to pick up women.

In California I was introduced to Tool.
Okinawa I learned about System of a Down.

But the funny thing is I might have picked up on all these different sounds anyway. If it sounds good I’ll listen to it. I grew up in the 80′s and 90′s. I had a lot to choose from.

Favorite 80′s group: Tears For Fears-Songs From The Big Chair

And to answer a co-workers question as to why I had Justin Timberlake on my iPod:
"Because it’s MY iPod and not yours."

and what will Mikey do for Day 200? Hmmmmmmm

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Village Scenery – Swaziland

Image by whl.travel
With rolling hills, mountains and valleys it is not surprising that Swaziland is renowned for its scenery. About 10% of the country is under some form of nature conservation; about 40% is covered by large agricultural estates, ranches and forestry, whilst the remainder is known as Swazi Nation Land (SNL). Here the typical feudal life of Africa continues with small villages and homesteads scattered across many rural chieftaincies.

(By Darron Raw)

www.swazi.travel

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Cheddar gorge scenery in 1989

Image by Daves Portfolio
Cheddar gorge scenery in 1989

I am a big fan of creativity and I love watching people demonstrate their various ideas on songwriting. I thought using an automated function would be a great way to get a diverse set of ideas without my own influences showing through too much. Hopefully I have set up the filters well enough that the videos chosen by the process will be fitting for this blog.

My Chemical Romance members Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, and Ray Toro talk about their gear, how they mesh as a band, and writing songs collaboratively doing what Ray Toro calls “first instinct”. With their 4th studio album Danger Days now out, My Chemical Romance continues sharpening their chops and keeping their sound inspired by recording every show to examine their playing. The members discuss preferred pedals, amps, and guitars from Epiphone, Orange, BOSS, Ibanez, Vox, Marshall, Electro-Harmonix, MXR, and Gibson available here: bit.ly Musician’s Friend is your source for My Chemical Romance’s music gear including the Frank Iero Signature Epiphone Wilshire guitar—now at the lowest price guaranteed!
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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Scenery from Copperopolis MVC-065F

Image by Willscrlt
More scenery from Copperopolis.

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Download music from itunes for free

Image by labnol
Download Music, Movies, Videos from iTunes Store for free

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MUSIC: 200603-200803 Listening History Graph

Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
Made with www.last.fm/user/C26000/journal/2006/07/30/195693/

I can see where I changed my playlist algorithm,
and started using a whitelisted-subset (‘changerrecent’),
at which point playlist management really takes off.
This was around March, 2006.

Up to that point, it was a 9000 song shuffle (‘changer’), so the
graph is all thin slivers. The first large slivers emerge after we
started doing ChangerRecent, a smaller subset (1000 vs 9000).

Then, certain bands taper off and stop — because we started doing
ChangerRecentToLearnOnly. As songs were learned, they were
removed from the playlist. Catchier bands taper off sooner, thus
you can see, for example, King Missile tapering off by August of
2007 — way before completely un-catchy Ratos De Parao, which
took until November of 2007.

Our first completed CRTL (ChangerRecentToLearn) was 1000
songs, and took ~6 months (May->November) to complete.

Notice Ratos De Paroa at the bottom. This was the VERY LAST
BAND in our ToLearn playlist — the least catchy — possibly the worst
music in the playlist. Thus, at the very end, this was all that remained
for a good week until we learned the final songs. Makes it look more
important than it is. (August-October 2007.)

New music was put in once R.D.P. was learned — but we kept
the ToLearn playlist in the 0-150 song range — never going up
to 1000 like the first time. That is, we keep up with the new music
nowadays, and never get 1000 behind.

Thus, on the right of the graph, you now see larger, consolidated
blocks of fewer bands. This represents the transformation in how
we listen to music.

After that, there were about 10 concerts in 5 months, so the
decision of what new music to add was based on which bands
we were about to see in concert — Ozzy Osbourne, Chemlab,
Ween, Gwar, They Might Be Giants, Ministry, etc.

As you can see at the very right of the graph, Ministry is taking
over our playlists, as we prepare for the March Ministry concert.
Ministry now represents about 95% of music listened to in the
past 2 weeks.

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Scenery from Copperopolis MVC-066F

Image by Willscrlt
More scenery from Copperopolis.

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©1999-2009 by Will Murray ("Willscrlt") willmurray.name/ This photo is CC-BY-SA-3.0-US licensed. You may reuse it subject to the terms of that license. Refer to my profile for my attribution requirements. The unaltered original high-resolution version is available under a commercial license.

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Scenery on the Rock Harbor Trail — Isle Royale National Park, Michigan

Image by Corvair Owner
Scenery from the tour boat Sandy.