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• Lucero Survived the Culling of SXSW Showcase Music I’ve got a smart iTunes playlist set up entitled ‘Getting Things Done’ - it holds my tried and true favorites, songs that are just the right combination of ‘covering background noise’ (lawn mowers and road construction) and ‘keep me motivated’. Specifically, the list contains tracks I’ve rated greater than 2 stars that aren’t in
• Shop Vac in the Suburbs Music Video  Almost 50 years ago, Redbook magazine and On Film made In the Suburbs, a promotional video for suburban life. A few weeks back, Jonathan Coulton released “Shop Vac” a catchy little theme song for suburban life. I wondered what they’d look like together. Behold the power of Creative Commons and archive.org: Shop Vac in the Suburbs [quicktime]
• Rediscover Your iTunes Library with Tangerine Like everyone else, my podcast listening (and publishing) has an inverse relationship to how busy I am at work. I’ve cut back to only the gPod - bookending the day - with music in the middle. A couple weeks back, I found Potion Factory’s Tangerine, a great little app that generates iTunes playlist based on BPM
• Transplants Not Unlike GWAR  Take Blink 182’s drummer, Rancid’s lead, a roadie, a weekend of b-grade end-of-the-world horror flicks, and mix with a case of cheap beer - like Grain Belt non-Premium. I know, I know, that’s almost the same recipe for GWAR. But this time, you end up with Transplants’ Haunted Cities. I picked it up a while
• Tuesday’s Triple Play - Love Songs to Insane Girlfriends  We all know them, we all love them, this week’s triple play goes out to your favorite unstable girlfriend. Someone is Crazy from Jonathan Coulton Total Breakdown from Brad Sucks F’d up Girl from the Vandal’s Hitler Bad, Vandals Good.