Read, Shred then Burn

Well, despite my misgivings, and though it looked as if I might kill him beforehand, Hyperactive Lad made it to another birthday yesterday. We celebrated by going to the rat house for dinner. Hm, more accurate to say *HE* celebrated, and his parents endured the experience. Ghawdaful horrendous covers of songs that had nothing to recommend them in the first place played at atrocious volume to compete with the over clocked games... I sound so old.

He actually commented earlier in the month: "I got one more year until I can get on the Teen Grid, right?" Yup, homework is going to be a bigger struggle next year.

I love the iPod, because today I have had Handel, followed in quick sucession by the Polecats, the Edgar Winter Group, Shriekback, Tom Jones, Offenbach, Rush, Max Raabe and Dave Brubeck. I can't wait for summer, when I can plug it into the car's sound system with the windows down. Aural whiplash, anyone?

Right, so I am attempting to gather all the appropriate music for various projects in one space, somewhere where it can be shared.

There are some excellently competent and creative remixers and DJs out there, so I throw it open to the list - what are your favorite ways to host/assemble/share music?

Pre-order phase for cadhla's first studio album Stars Fall Home is reaching the end. This woman writes zombie/mermaid/demon/mad science love songs, people! How have you lived without her music this long?!? Order now and you won't have to exist in the slough of depression that not having the right song can do to the soundtrack of your life!

Did you go look?

I have found yet another mode of torture.
Japanese Surf Versions of Classical Themes 
You heard me. MP3's of Beethoven, Strauss and Rimsky-Korsakov served up California style.

Now I just have to dig up my other classical album

but I have another distraction.