Music For the People
I hate forgetting to bring my iPod to work. Then my only other music options are to listen to some internet radio (like my Last.FM stream or music discovery service Pandora), or borrowing one of Coworker Jeff's CDs.
The problem with option #1 is that IT really, really frowns upon streaming internet radio, and the problem with option #2 is that while Jeff might have some okay taste in music, I've heard it all. Repeatedly. Because he likes to listen to one CD for about a month straight. Or until I threaten him by waving my rubber band gun in his face.
Muxtape is kind of like finding a stack of unlabled burned CD mixes. Instant music, you never know what you're going to get until you open one up. It's like magic.
Here the mixes I've enjoyed this workday:
- christopherware - a nice and mellow indie mix
- jodiwilldare - indie covers
- galaxia - I keep coming back to this one no matter how often it's changed
- peli - pop-rock
- robotlovekills - indie-rock and rock
- beforeindie - before everyone got self-conscious about indie being the Cool Thing
- matthewbaldwin - I've listened to this one at least three times and even made Rachel listen to it, however unenthused she was about the Sesame Street music
2008
3 Love Notes
Hey I love sesame street. Sorry I didn't come across as enthusiastic on chat. Maybe I just didn't want you to know of my unrequited love for Kermie.
Maybe I'm just so used to people rolling their eyes at my Sesame Street enthusiasm I projected it onto you?
You could stash a thumb drive of music in your desk so that you'd always have an emergency stash when you forget your iPod. 2 Gig drives are about $20 and no big loss if someone snatched it.
(See? I'm not intolerable. I'm just drawn that way. :))
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