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End: The results

Friday, March 6th, 2009

The great iPod experiment was a huge success. I will definitely continue the practice. The randomness of someone elses’ unknown music is disarming. I found myself occasionally quite enjoying music I wasn’t “supposed” to like. Some religious beliefs were reconfirmed however, for instance, I still really really hate James Taylor. I also cannot pallet Ani Di Franco, not one bit, although curiously and disastrously didn’t use any of my 5 allotted skips on her.

Here are the results as I documented them (which is not very extensively at all):

Tracks I dug:
Wilson Phillips
Juanez
JJ Cale
Justin Timberlake

Tracks I skipped:
Some completely unignorable fiddle-pop jam-fest.
Alanis Morissette
Coldplay
Tori Amos
James Taylor

No huge revelations to be had, but it was totally worthwhile and fun. I’ve had some positive feedback from the other camp as well, which only used one of their skips (but apparently considered it on a couple other tracks). Leave what we know. Even if just for a day.

Live different.

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Experiment: Music

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Today begins a grand experiment: iPod swap! My good friend and I have profoundly different tastes in music, but fearing stagnation, and possessing in us both the tendency towards self-torture, we have agreed to switch iPods for the duration of the day. They must be kept on random, and we are only allowed 5 skips each, so we must be conservative in case we encounter a 20 minute long live Phish jam, or a 35 minute Merzbow track and be left with no other option but hurling ourselves off a bridge (self-termination is not outside of the rules).

Despite the risk of Barenaked Ladies (a constant threat) and jam bands, I think this should be a very worthwhile exercise. I hope to implement it with more formality in the near future. We get very easily stuck in our own worlds. I think it is important to venture out from time to time and open ourselves up to thoughts, sounds, and images that we would never explore on our own. For instance, already I have learned that Wilson Phillips rules, and that I still do not care at all for Ani Di Franco. Other realities are so close by. We have the ability to explore them every day and yet we rarely do.

..It is only great restraint the keeps me from skipping the Alanis Morisette song which has just come one. …Oh but then Tuvan Throat singing is the reward! Endless surprises abound, if we only take the minimal risk to venture out.

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Mission of Burma in Space

Monday, February 16th, 2009

The Mission of Burma Interview from last month is alive and kicking. Check out the Space Blog and read on young adventurer. Burma has long been of of my favorite bands. It was a pleasure to get to meet them.

AL: At what point did that terror fade where you were thought, “alright, maybe we have a chance at not sucking.”

CC: I guess after the first round of gigs. They went really well.

PP: And also after a year or two when we got a concentrated batch of shows, at the end of it, it was actually like a machine, and like you’re supposed to feel in a band.

Burma Interview

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