Just had one of those gorgeous tech epiphanies when you find out you can do something that you couldn’t do before that will improve your quality of life in a small but meaningful way.
I’ve just been listening to a friend’s last.fm playlist wirelessy through the iTouch plugged into the stereo while doing the washing up. [...]

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Have just been messing around with the last.fm beta and have to say that after a quick play it looks like a great leap forward.
Conceptually, last.fm is now based around The Library, which acts not only as a repository of everything you’ve played, but also of things you’d like to listen to or want to [...]

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you made me realise, originally uploaded by meltingman.

Truly outstanding. On sunday night, the mid-section of You Made Me Realise was apparently timed at 18 minutes of pure noise. Last night we thought it was [...]

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Enjoying Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago. Well, I think I am, but it has the curious quality of not existing except for when it’s actually being played. If I try to think of it at other times, there’s nothing there, nothing to recall - save for the that was Wisconsin, that was yesterday refrain [...]

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A lot of my time seems to be spent sorting things at the moment. If it’s not the ongoing pitch battle between tags and categories on the blog here (does really it matter if they don’t ever work? - could it be seen as endearing dysfunction?), it’s looking at my horribly [...]

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I heart Mark E Smith.
I only have three chairs in the house: one for the wife, one for me, and one for a guest. No more. One guest at a time - that’s my philosophy. You don’t want your house turning into a hippy commune.
His “explosive new autobiography” is being extracted in the Guardian.

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Have three words ever looked better uncapitalised?
Tickets in the bag,  fan-fucking-tastic.

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…still.

Sonic Youth play Daydream Nation at the Roundhouse. Absolutely phenomenal.

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…allofmp3/mp3sparks. I’ll miss you. It’s a shame when the best service on the block is also of dubious legality.
So where else does one  get to try loads of new music these days without breaking the bank? Is emusic.com better than it was 3 years ago? There’s a limit to the number of obscure Coltrane live [...]

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