Day: June 30, 2006

A big day indeed: it’s finally sunny (cause for celebration in and of itself), it’ Friday, it’s the end of the quarter, and we’re about halfway through the year. Our company shipped some major products this week, though for various reasons the press release won’t be out until the second week of July. And I have some other news that will have to wait until Monday, for various reasons.

In the meantime, it’s a good sort of day to sit down and shuffle through the iPod and see what comes up:

1. Bob Dylan, “Hurricane,” (Desire)
2. TartanPodcast, “Sleepy Sunday Show #10”
3. Moby, “Memory Gospel,” (Play: The B Sides)
4. Eva Cassidy, “Songbird,” (Eva By Heart)
5. M. Ward, “Oh Take Me Back,” (Transistor Radio)
6. Neko Case, “Knock Loud” (Fields and Streams compilation)
7. Robert Shaw Festival Singers (Arnold Schoenberg, composer), “Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth), Op. 13” (Evocation of the Spirit)
8. John Coltrane, “Blue Trane (alternate take),” (Blue Trane)
9. Clem Snide, “Moment In The Sun” (The Ghost of Fashion)
10. The Stills, “Love and Death” (Logic Will Break Your Heart)

I think Last.fm wants to be for music what LibraryThing is for books. Because it’s track and playcount focused, it’s a different experience. But I think if it could give me a similarity list for the contents of my library, it would probably turn up my Seattle friend Tom Harpel, on the basis of his recent Favorite Records list. Thanks for the listening suggestions—I’ll have to check the thirteen albums on the list that aren’t already in my library.