Normalized Happiness

I Finished My Grand Project

2008-03-03T06:53:18Z

Last fall, once I moved to my new regime of syncing my iPod with my Macbook (instead of manually managing music as I had in the past), I decided to listen to every album I own at least once. Well, not every album I own, but every album that I woul...

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80s Dance Mix, Part II

2008-01-02T02:21:52Z

Here's Part II of my 80s Dance Selections Mix. (Part I was posted last night) Some songs not on my playlist that proved to be big hits last night: "Footloose", "Flashdance (What a Feeling)" and Alphaville's "Forever Young." 80s Dance Selections...

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80s Prom Dance Music

2007-12-31T19:12:08Z

Forgive the length of this post, but I'm supposed to DJ an 80s prom-themed New Year's Eve party tonight, and I thought I would share the master playlist I created this week and see if there were any songs I forgot. Here is the first half: 80s D...

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QotD: Radiohead, In Rainbows

2007-10-11T05:01:11Z

Radiohead release their seventh studio album today and it's only available online and you set your own price. Will you buy the album? Do you buy the idea? I will buy the album, and I do buy the idea. Basically, Radiohead are pre-emptively lea...

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Vox Hunt: Weekend Results

2007-03-19T18:57:22Z

Show us something you did, made, saw or bought this past weekend. I did a lot of music organizing this weekend, since my collection was in danger of spinning completely out of control as a result of all the CD ripping and re-ripping I've been do...

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Trizzle Project update: featured songs are back

2007-02-20T06:54:03Z

This morning I finally updated the production site with the new code that I've been working for the past month. As a result, the Trizzle Project now sports some new features, including: You can now review, rate and tag artists and albums as wel...

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To the 80s and back

2007-02-05T23:45:54Z

Next four songs in Party Shuffle: Jacksonville 5:24 Sufjan Stevens Come On Feel The Illinoise! Indie Rock Sole Survivor 3:41 Asia The Very Best of Asia - Heat of the Moment 1982-1990 Classic Rock She Bop 3:51 Cyndi L...

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Trizzle project update: object re-factoring completed

2007-02-05T07:15:48Z

A few weeks ago on BART I had an epiphany about how song, album and artist metadata should be stored in the Trizale Project database (the "Trizzbase".) Since then I have been working on refactoring all of the Trizzle project code and database call...

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Ghostface Killah "Ghost Is Back (edit)"

2007-01-20T07:12:14Z

I bought one of the most popular tracks from "More Fish" but was annoyed to learn that the first minute and a half was a pointless and chaotic New Year's Eve countdown skit. So, using QuickTime Pro I sliced the offending material off and now post ...

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Let's get this group going: GBV DID

2007-01-17T20:22:44Z

How about this? Name your Guided By Voices desert island discs. If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have five GBV albums to listen to, which ones would they be? Here's mine, in order of release: 1. Propeller 2. Bee Thousand 3....

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