Just listened to my 101,000th unique iTunes track, a long (and at times quite good) version of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” by The Jerry Garcia Band at one of many shows at the Keystone Palo Alto in 1977, this one on July 2nd (how did anyone in the Bay Area get anything done in 1977?). …
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Our First Date
I remember very well the first time your mother and I ever kissed. I’ve just been running in the park across the street from my apartment and I ran past the precise spot where Anne and I first kissed, nine months and twenty-four days ago. This park has a four mile circular path through the …
100k, the Last Thousand
As promised, here’s some data about the most recent 1,000 songs I listened to. These made up the last 1% of 100,000 unique tracks heard. Purview We consider merely the 1,000 tracks played by iTunes (or its related phone app) from the April 2 to June 9, in the year 2017* — which tracks comprise numbers …
100,000 Songs
Just listened to my 100,000th unique iTunes track, the plaintive “I Wonder Where You Are Tonight” by The Louvin Brothers, appearing here on their collection Close Harmony. Preceding that song was the Argentine rock band Bersuit Vergarabat’s “Fisurar” (from La Argentinidad Al Palo), and next up is “Blood and Sand” by Pigface, from the album …
99,000 Songs on the Wall (of Data)
As promised, though belated, herewith are some points derived from data pursuant to the tranche of the most recent 1,000 songs which brought my total of iTunes tracks listened to up to the 99,000 mark. In the contemporary thought space, one calls such points and the thoughts about them ‘insights’, which pleads a special power …
Ninety-nine Thousand (99,000)
Just listened to my 99,000th unique iTunes track, a bland piece of nothing from the Freaky Friday soundtrack, “Brand New Day” by Forty Foot Echo. I would have preferred the milestone to have fallen to the preceding song, Steve Earle’s “Down The Road” from Guitar Town. 99,000 unique tracks comprises 653.99 GB of data, with …
Green Sale
Aging hippies and Hipster wealth converge upon The dispensary
100 Books
(or, The Pointlessness of Data) As promised earlier, I return to announce that I have now read 100 books — according to the database I keep of my books. When previously i made such announcement, I had to express three caveats, to wit: The ‘books’ referred to previously included graphic novels and comics, which perhaps …
Ninety-Eight Thousand (98,000)
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, …
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 …