Last.Fm Rocks!

Last.FM is THE music site that I’ve been waiting for my entire life. The site makes use of Audioscrobbler, which is a piece of software that updates meta-data about the music your listening to to their database. This information is collected and grouped into categories such as the artist, album and the song your listening to, and how many times. Couple that with the other songs you listen to, the genre of music, the tagging that the Last.FM community is doing, as well as the similar artist search and you’ve got one kick-ass music site. You can search for any artist, and similar artists will be listed by popularity. This popularity is decided by the listen frequency that the collection of users are contributing. Obviously the more users, the better the results get. Last.FM also has a great open-source streaming program for listening to music. You can search radio stations by tag, or by artist, which suggests to me that they’re compiling streams on the fly. It seems like a really awesome project. They’re based out of London, England right now, but the music is from everywhere. I love it.
Love
Love
Love it.

-T

ps. Canadian Hip Hop Artist Josh Martinez…. Awesome

Death Waltz

I absolutely adore this arrangement. It might be slightly difficult to play for one person, but I suspect that divided into a trio, you could actually pull it off.
ROFL

-T

My favourite notation is ‘Add Bicycle’

Hair!

So I broke down today and got a haircut. I was reluctant, seeing as my mop was present during most of my trip, and the highlights I had naturally acquired would be no more. The rather cute stylist (I went to a *stylist*) asked me how long I’d been wearing it ‘Shaggy’. After telling her I’d had it for 6 months, she immediately escorted me to the basin and scrubbed my hair for a good 10 minutes. I didn’t say ANYTHING about never washing. I washed it.
Once.
Or twice.
You lose count when its that low, but seriously, it wasn’t “Italian” greasy or anything.

-T

New Pictures

Hi All!

I’ve got some pictures from the Southern Ocean passage, and Easter Island!
Links are here.

Southern Ocean
Easter Island

-T

update: I barely took any pictures while I was in Chile. I was too busy staring at all the beautiful people and places. Cameras are just a pain in the ass, they ruin the experience sometimes. Anyway. here are some pictures of Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile.