Sunday, December 18, 2005

The exact total opposite of the day the music died.....

About a year ago I wrote a post about a song that sounds like Sunday feels. Limited by my less than deft manipulation of the English language, I'm pretty sure that my point was more or less lost in translation. Since then, I've desperately wanted to attach music files to the blog but kept coming up against certain bandwidth restrictions on Blogger as well as my own tech-tardedness.

In fact, every Sunday for the last month has found me, unkempt and unwashed, sitting on the floor, mildly hungover and searching the web for a free tutorial on how to attach MP3s to the site. There has been much hysterical frustration, rending of garments and yelling at inanimate objects. But today the floodgates were opened and it all came together. Listen up internet- I hope you like yourselves some Bob Dylan BECUASE I HAVE DONE IT! I'm uploading, I'm storing, I'm ripping and hotlinking. I am locked, loaded and ready to unleash my musical taste into the ether of the 'net. I'm as close to giddy as I get.

I've said before that I'm a music junkie and it happens to be true. That's not to say my musical taste is beyond reproach, because I know a hell of a lot of people who would politely beg to differ. If fact, there's a bass player who I took a few tumbles with in college that deemed my collection to be, "The worst CD collection known to man". He may be right or wrong, but it's my URL and I'll play anything I damn well please. MWUUU-HAHAHAHA!!!!

Actually, it's far less sinister than it sounds, but I think it will very much change the nature of the blog. For starters, it ended my hiatus much sooner than expected. I'm sorry, I love you internet. Let's have makeup sex and never be apart again. As a peace offering, I give you one of the coolest things I have EVER seen.

The iTunes Signature Maker goes through your iTunes library and puts together a personalized clip based on how many times you've played a song or how highly you've rated it. (Via Kottke). Basically, it creates a single clip of what your entire musical taste sounds like. God bless the internet.

Click here to listen to my clip.

And now, I'd like to announce the first ever TTTTCP contest. If anyone can correctly identify 5 songs from my signature clip I will make them the subject of my first ever podcast. Yes, you read that right. Overconfident in my geektastic technological ability, I've decided to give podcasting a try. If you don't know what it is, I suggest you look it up dear.

So, stick around. Between the music, the contest, the podcast and a potential guest editor, things are getting exciting over here at the Cyanide Pill. This hiatus is definitively over.

Oh, and by the way, in case you were wondering, this is the song that sounds like Sunday feels.

Fast Train- Solomon Burke
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