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Been a while since I did this so why not.

Sort by song title:
-First Song: A-B-C Learning by The Lionheart Brothers
-Last Song: 99 Luft Balloons by Nena (when did iTunes switch from having numbers first to last?)

Sort by time:
-Shortest Song: One Last 'Whoo-Hoo!' For The Pullman by Sufjan Stevens (0:07)
-Longest Song: A Long Day by The Polyphonic Spree (36:31)

Sort by artist:
First Artist: Air
Last Artist: The 5.6.7.8's

Sort by album:
-First Album: [A-->B] Life by mewithoutYou
-Last Album: () by Sigur Rós

Top 10 Most Played Songs (without repeating an artist):
1. Hanasakajijii (four: a great wind, more ash) by Anathallo
2. Messes of Men by mewithoutYou
3. The Meeting of the Marionette and the Music Box by Unwed Sailor
4. Airport Motels by Crystal Skulls
5. This is the Sound by The Dark Romantics
6. Green Eyes by Discover America
7. Dancing With Someone (Privilege of Everything) by Castanets
8. Better Version of Me (Brion Version) by Fiona Apple
9. Goodnight and Go by Imogen Heap
10. High Highs by Viva Voce

Last 10 Played (I was shuffling)
1. Little Airplane by Blake Hazard
2. Walk With Me by Damien Jurado
3. The Mind-Jammers by Soul-Junk
4. Eating Bad-Bad Fruit by Half-Handed Cloud
5. Let Down by David Bazan's Black Cloud
6. Even When by Jeremy Camp
7. Sounded Like a Train, Wasn't a Train by Castanets
8. 40 Years by At The Close Of Every Day
9. The Shedding Skin by Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes
10. Jesus was a Crossmaker by The Hollies

First five songs that come up on Shuffle:
1. Come Sail Away by Styx
2. Umbrella by Dntel
3. La Nina de Puerta Oscura by Paco De Lucia
4. Of Up and Coming Monarchs by Pedro the Lion
5. Part-time Lover by Copeland

Search...
"Sex", How many songs come up?: 6
"Love", How many songs come up?: 241
"You", How many songs come up?: 726
"Death", How many songs come up?: 63
"Hate", How many songs come up?: 30
"Wish", How many songs come up?: 9
"Dream", How many songs come up?: 69
"Leave", How many songs come up?: 33
"Stay", How many songs come up?: 13
"Heart", How many songs come up?: 68

As of right now: 5106 songs, 13.6 days, 25.17 GB

Just want to make a note to myself that I quit scrobbling songs from my iPod when I got a new one. Now last.fm will only be keeping track of songs actually played on my computer through iTunes.

I really wish that the iTunes plugin submitted played tracks from my iPod when it synced.

It appears iScrobbler for Windows is not compatible with iTunes 7.2. My VIRB°tunes plugin still works, which basically does the same thing, but for virb.com instead of last.fm, so the problem much be only the iScrobbler plugin. So I reverted to iTunes 7.02 with no problems.

My desktop died the other day, I had to order a new power supply. And that is why I have no recently played tracks, and I probably won't have charts this week.

I'm only listening to Christmas music this week (if I can stand it that long), so charts should be interesting. Probably lots of Sufjan Stevens, and a few that don't usually make appearances on my charts like Diana Krall, Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra.

Ten bands/artists you couldn't live without (in no particular order):


1. mewithoutYou
2. Viva Voce
3. Mason Jennings
4. All Things Bright and Beautiful
5. Anathallo
6. This Beautiful Mess
7. Pedro the Lion
8. Unwed Sailor
9. Fiona Apple
10. Tears for Fears

(I have to say this was very hard to choose, Chris Staples needs to be included as an honorable mention)


Nine albums that are important to you (not ranked):

1. Twothirtyeight - Regulate The Chemicals
2. This Beautiful Mess - Falling On Deaf Ears
3. The Essential Rosemary Clooney
4. Rocky Votolato - Suicide Medicine
5. mewithoutYou - [A-->B] Life
6. Denison Witmer - Safe Away
7. Brown Feather Sparrow - Wide Awakens Everything
8. Bradley Hathaway - All The Hits So Far But Don't Expect Much
9. All Things Bright and Beautiful - Love & Affection


Eight movies you'd watch over and over:

1. Serendipity
2. Brick
3. Vanilla Sky
4. Raising Helen
5. Donnie Darko
6. Return To Oz
7. The Island
8. Sweet November


Seven things that annoy you:

1. People
2. Having to pee 15 minutes after I just peed
3. Time
4. Bugs
5. Forgetting what I was thinking
6. Wind
7. People


Six of your favorite songs (currently):

1. mewithoutYou - In A Sweater Poorly Knit
2. Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
3. Anathallo - Hanasakajijii (four: a great wind, more ash)
4. My Brightest Diamond - Gone Away
5. Danielson - Did I Step On Your Trumpet
6. Brandtson - Earthquakes & Sharks


Five TV shows you watch regularly:

1. Gilmore Girls
2. Heroes
3. MythBusters
4. ER
5. Mad About You

Four of your all-time-favorite books: (another very hard one)

1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
3. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald


Three albums you've bought/downloaded recently:

1. Early Day Miners - Placer Found
2. Brad Paisley Christmas
3. Viva Voce - Center Of The Universe EP


Two artists you would like to do the NASTY with: (assuming married ones are off limits)

1. Sufjan Stevens
2. Rocky Votolato I guess


One band whose music would be the soundtrack of your life:

Tears for Fears, it's a Mad World but I Believe there's hope the pain could end and we'll all be strong. Though sometimes I just want to Shout it all away.

They has been recent talk and popularity of the song "Cassie" by Flyleaf. This is the song about the girl who was killed at Columbine after standing up for her faith in God. I just want to mention that the band Eustace also released a song about her a few years prior to Flyleaf called "Cassie Said". It's beautiful and touching and you should all listen to it.

Going backwards from how high they rank on my overall list:

The just plain sad section:
191. I'm the #31 fan of Ev Angel with only 6 listens. Being that this is the band that Copeland spawned from, I'm quite surprised.

180. #27 for Like David, 7 listens.

180. #15 for The Hot Stewards, guess they really do suck and I fell for it.

180. #10 for Cape Renewal, not that big of a deal, but I thought they had some groupies at least.

173. #9 for Dreaming of the Fifth, 8 listens, we live in a sad sad world.

164. #44 for Still Breathing, 9 listens, sad sad world.

148. #44 for The River Bends, probably just because I use the actual band name instead of saying it's Denison Witmer.

I skip a lot here, just to keep from crying over the utter sadness of it.

107. #10 fan for Blake Hazard, I used to listen to her a lot, but only 20 listens since being on this site, where's all the Bostonites?

104. #18 fan for Undertow Orchestra, I'll attribute this to all of their songs being live.

86. #3 fan for Questions in Dialect, do people really not like this band?

66. #18 fan for M.Craft, I just started listening to this guy seriously.

60. #44 fan for This Beautiful Mess, they deserve more.

54. #2 for Alathea

52. #21 for Dear Ephesus

52. #6 for TW Walsh, seriously?

49. #45 for Rosemary Clooney

46. #1 for Apt°Core, wierd

37. #26 for Campsite

It's begun to make sense section:

36. #30 for At The Close Of Everyday.

33. #12 for Chris Staples

27. #36 for Namelessnumberheadman

27. #50 for Discover America

18. #25 for Waterdeep, even though I haven't really listened in forever.

16. #3 for All Things Bright and Beautiful

4. #21 for Viva Voce, I just moved up from #35 as deserved.