once again i have become bored with my music. i have lots of it and spread it across three computers to retain some variety. ubiquity is not necessarily a good thing. but no matter what i turn to i get nothing. of course this has happened many times before. i tend to hit classical music first. this time i bizarrely went to monteverdi. i try the radio, bbc radio 3’s late junction is a favourite (and how i discovered kimya dawson), but the presenter that seemed to play what i was after (verity sharp) seems absent from the schedules. now i have other choices. last.fm tracks everything i play, no matter what machine i play it on, and offers friend’s music ( i listened to bar’s radio last night) and neighbourhood radio. this streams music based upon what close musical matches play that i don’t listen to. but i just find it so hit and miss. tonight i enjoyed cake’s “the distance”, heard a few things i already owned but choose not to play, and nothing else of much interest. here’s hoping the drought doesn’t last long.
last saturday we had a party to celebrate ita getting her MA. at about 1am i started showing someone how you could DJ using youtube and get pretty much anything you could think of. i asked him what he would most like to listen to right now, any song, and band. whatever it was i found it. then someone else jumped in with a request. this carried on for four hours. people were often in some kind of competition with each other. i would get a whisper from someone so that i could tee up the track to be launched and received the moment the other faded. but almost always the music was at least on the fringes of what the group would want. there was dancing, singing, the works.
of course, in a perfect world, each of the guests would be last.fm users. i’d plug in their user names into the, as yet unborn, “party radio” feature, and all night i could have rested my index finger.
