Wow. I just realized that I've been a last.fm member for two years in addition to scrobbling my 20000th track (A Day in the Life) today.

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Protocol Stages

The protocol consists of four stages:

Handshake

The initial negotiation with the Last.fm server to establish authentication and connection details for the session.

Adjustment

Selection of the Last.fm radio station to be played.

Playlist

Retrieval of the playlist containing stream URIs.

Scrobbling

Post track data to Last.fm and optionaly rate it.

The Handshake

The handshake consist of a GET…

A long time ago I begun writing down everything I knew about scales, chords and how they relate to jazz. Yesterday I posted it to my blog. However, it's still a work in progress.

– Holly crosspost Batman! That must mean Dr. Blog has captured Ms. LilyPond.

Yesterday a friend and I came up with an Irish drinking game. It is really simple:

1) While listening to The Cranberries drink whenever a track that reminds you of Zombie is being played.

2) There are no second rule.

As any true Irish drinking game it is supposed to get you really pissed.

Since eveeerybooody is doing this, and I'm feeling particular silly today, I will use amaroK as my own magic 8-ball.

How does the world see me?
Song: Jehovah Sunrise
Artist: Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Comments: I'm a devine entity enlightening the world? I can live with that…

Will I have a happy life?
Song: They're Building Walls Around Us
Artist: Moneybrother
Comments: I guess not.

What do my friends really think of me?
Song: Golden Years
Artist: David Bowie
Comments: I'm in my golden years? Ok, then it's probably true: life ends after thirty.

Do people secretly lust after me?…

I just want to give a shout-out to Gisela May: If you like Barbara, Jacques Brel et al. then you might very well like Gisela May singing the songs of Kurt Weill.

The way I discovered Barbara must have been through Rikard Wolff. He discovered her while living in France in his youth and started to translate her songs into swedish. Several years later and after a Edith Piaf project he decided to record the translated songs, introducing Barbara to the swedish audience, resulting in the 2000 album Min Allra Största Kärlek ('Ma plus belle histoire d'amour' in french) on EMI.

Welcome to the Barbara (a.k.a. Monique Serf) group devoted to her life, work and fans. In my opinion she's one of the worlds top singer-songwriters. Hopefully more people, who stil thinks french classic "contemporary" music is all about Edith Piaf, will discover Barbara too and be blown away.

If somebody would ask me what artist or album I would recomend to get a snap idea of what I like, then it would be Nikka Costa. I've loved her ever since I got the Like A Feather promo single in my hands back in 2001.

It's so tight. Compressed. Lovely.

Despite being a big Garbage fan I didn't buy the latest album Bleed Like Me immediately when it was released. Mostly due to the fact that I'm currently living in the outback (at least speaking music-wise) so it wasn't exactly on the shelves. And then I simply forgot about it…

But now I'm finally listening to it. And indeed, it's definitely more rockalicious and back to the roots than before. Great bare-bone production void of any obvious late night knob-twitching on behalf of Butch Vig & co.