Just listened to my 98,000th unique iTunes track, The vaguely holiday-related track “Daddy’s Drinking Up Our Christmas” by Smiley Bates. This represents 635.64 GB of data, constituting 267 days, 7 hours, 13 minutes, and 44 seconds of playing time. Leaving 76,550 items (once again – again – more “music” added in the interval) remaining unheard, …
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Ninety-Seven Thousand (97,000)
Just listened to my 97,000th unique iTunes track, an instrumental riff from a 1974 Los Angeles concert by Steely Dan at The Record Factory, from a bootleg provided me years ago by my friend Gary. The track was a bridge between “Pretzel Logic” and their hit “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number”. This represents 632.17 GB …
Ninety-Six Thousand (96,000)
Just listened to my 96,000th unique iTunes track, a classic version of “Harlem Nocturne”, by the incomparable Johnny Otis, from a collection of different Harlem Nocturnes. This compelling instrumental — in almost any version — is one of the all-time best songs ever. This represents 626.67 GB of data, constituting 261 days, 14 hours, 22 …
100 Books (Not Really)
On Tuesday, June 21st, I apparently finished my hundredth book since I began recording the same just over a year ago. Of course, this is only a seeming fact, for multiple reasons. Imprimus, this “100 books” total includes comics and graphic novels, which cannot really have the same literary ‘weight’ (not to say ‘mass’) as …
Ninety-Five Thousand (95,000)
Just listened to my 95,000th unique iTunes track, the sexy reggae — or is it mento? — 1972 single, “Night Food Reggae”, by the mysterious Nora Dean, found on the Trojan Records collection Tighten Up Volume 7. The alleged singer later moved from Jamaica to New York, became born again, and turned from reggae to …
Haiku
Dang. New Car. What kind? At the used car lot the wind Flutters plastic flags.
Friday Vocabulary
1. toast-and-water — water in which toast has been soaked, thought to be cooling and refreshing (also seen as toast-water) I availed myself of some toast-and-water from the pitcher near at hand, attempting to calm my febrile brain and efface the frightening visions. 2. glaucous — pale grey-green or greenish-blue In the crepuscule of …
Ninety-Four Thousand
Just listened to my 94,000th unique iTunes track (with replays of the same item not counting towards that total), the George M. Cohan smash hit from 1911, “That Haunting Melody”, sung by the inimitable Al Jolson on the A-side of Victor 17037. (He is inimitable because of the blackface, naturally.) This represents 609.37 GB of …
Ninety-Three Thousand
93,000th iTunes track (with all necessary caveats): “Soul Feeling, Pt. 2” by Eddie ‘G.’ Giles from the simply terrific Soul compilation Downtown Soulville! (Yet another title ending in an exclamation point… Hmm…) This represents 598.67 GB of data, constituting 251 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes, and 49 seconds of playing time. Which leaves 79,706 items …
Ninety-Two Thousand
92,000th iTunes track: “A Martini Built For Two” by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult from Sexplosion! This represents 589.04 GB of data, constituting 247 days, 13 hours, 30 minutes, and 39 seconds of playing time. Which leaves 80,627 items (give or take) remaining unheard, totaling 510.40 GB of data lasting 231 days, 1 …