Playing at being human for a while

I love music and I love the internet and I love file sharing.

If it wasn't for file sharing, the music I could listen to would be a handful of CDs I was sent from bands who wanted to play at the underground club I used to run (Fake Haus for those of you in the know) that are more than 10 years old. I just don't buy things. Anything. But music is such an important part of anyone's life and I'm so glad that I have been turned on to so much new good stuff lately. It is just so rewarding!

So I wanted to just say how happy I am at having found Pandora.com and seeqpod.com. Pandora is a site associated with the Music Genome Project, which is apparently attempting to cross index every song there is. So you type in a song and then it looks for songs it thinks have similar qualities and plays them for you. It is cool. I like having music suggested to me! It is far from perfect. If you want it to work best you have to give it a bit of feedback, and when I did a search for some African music (Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade, I mean come ON!) I got a big goose egg.

Seeqpod is a trip too. I guess it searches the music you type in and sees if it can find it anywhere on the net then you can save your set lists. I really like the stuff it comes up with.

Right now I'm listening to a live recording of Jeff Buckley singing "Grace" If you have not given a listen to this poor guy you really should. He has an absolutely legendary voice - passionate and powerful. Sadly, like his father, he killed himself while he was still young.

I love music. It feels good.