Fate … or something like it.

Actually, it's hardly fate that an Age Pryor song was my 5,000th song listened to here, when you consider how often I do listen to him. I hadn't listened to him as much in the past few weeks, but I started again yesterday. Perfect timing, without realizing it! My 5,000th track was Eyes Rarely Meet, which goes well with the Nick Drake I've been listening to in the past few days.

I love it when I end up associating certain music with specific books. A long time ago, I was reading Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned at the same time that I was listening to Boris Grebenshkov's album Radio Silence. I can't hear that album without thinking of that book. Not such a bad thing, really.

Right now, I'm rereading some Phil Rickman books. He's one of my favorite authors, simply because he writes so well, without being pretentious. Intriguing stories that keep you interested throughout, and incredible character development and dialogue. The book I'm rereading right now is…

You know, one of the cool things about being a fan of lesser-known artists is the fact that you can have direct contact with them. Awesome!

Surfing around, I came across a mention of Frida's song "I Know There's Something Going On", one of those songs I haven't thought of since the 1980s. (Oh, but I loved that song back then!) For the hell of it, I bought the song and just gave it a listen. It takes me back and has such nostalgia attached to it that I can't help but still enjoy it.

But day-um! That picture of Frida that pops up here on last.fm is day-glo hysterical!

I lived in New Orleans for a few years while attending university. Loved it there and loved being exposed to all sorts of music while living there. I've had the city on my mind a lot recently, due to various friends going down there for work. I'm thinking of going back in March for my birthday so I can also see one of my best friends who still lives in Louisiana.

As a result of this trip down memory lane, I pulled out a mix I made a couple of years ago. It's songs that are either by musicians from…

Today is the 25th anniversary of the birth of MTV. To celebrate, VH1 Classic is re-airing the first day's programming, i.e., actual music videos. There's a lot of basic live rock performances, but there are some artistic videos. Ultravox's Vienna, for example, which they just aired. I always did love that video. They've also shown Blondie's Rapture, the first "rap" song aired on MTV.

I'll probably keep the channel on all day, just to be reminded of some of my old favorites. I was nine years old when MTV debuted, and living in Orlando, we got the channel…

Look! A journal entry that isn't a meme and isn't about Age Pryor! (Although it was Age Pryor who recommended Ryan Prebble's CD to me. heh)

I did end up ordering Ryan Prebble's CD Fruits recently and of the four CDs I ordered at the time, this one is the one I can't stop listening to. There's just something about it that has captured my attention. I suspect the overall sound of it is kind of typical of the general sound I'm enjoying these days. What that sound is, I hate to say, since my associations tend to go…

Go through your top 10 artists and add up the total number of listeners. Then compute the average and divide the average by the number of Radiohead fans (Radiohead is the artist with the most listeners). That is your "mainstream percentage".

My mainstream ranking is 3%, which isn't surprising, since half my top ten doesn't even have triple digits when it comes to listeners, and one only has three listeners. That said, they're all freakin' brilliant and deserve to be mainstream!

Flight of the Conchords 1484
Age Pryor 66
Fly My Pretties 245
Tess & Adrian 3
The Phoenix Foundation…

Put your mp3 player on Shuffle. Write out the first line of lyric from the first 10 songs that come up. List the 10 bands in random order. See who can match the most. And no cheating, i.e. google.

1. "Don't be scared of anything at all"

2. "There's a boy with a little black dog"

3. "Oh, whoa mercy mercy me"

4. "When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire."

5. "There's a place for us"

6. "Blackbird claw, raven wing"

7. "From the mountain tops down to the sunny street"

8. "Close your…

Shuffle up the playlist and see what it says …

How does the world see me?
Song: Wicked Pussycat
Artist: Danzig
My Comments:

Will I have a happy life?
Song: California
Artist: Rufus Wainwright
My Comments: I'll have a happy life if I don't move to Cali, right?

What do my friends really think of me?
Song: CCTV
Artist: The Video Kid
My Comments: Hmmm. Either they're watching me at all times, or they see me as funky and free. What was that about stalking?

Do people secretly lust after me?
Song: Wild Flower
Artist: The Cult
My Comments: Does…