Impulse

I’ve suc­cumbed to the wid­get fad. In the side­bar, you’ll find some last.fm wid­gets for your lis­ten­ing plea­sure. These allow you to see and lis­ten to what­ever music I’ve been lis­ten­ing to this week. Why? Umm… because I can… Because I’ve never put a wid­get on this blog before… Because I keep find­ing great music I want to share, really. A mix of van­ity & good­will, perhaps.

For those of you who haven’t heard of last.fm — it is my lat­est obses­sion. It’s a cus­tomized inter­net radio sta­tion — as you lis­ten to more music, it remem­bers what you’ve lis­tened to and uses that infor­ma­tion to rec­om­mend other music. Over time, it gets fright­en­ingly good at rec­om­mend­ing inter­est­ing music that I’ve never heard of. For exam­ple, right this sec­ond, it’s play­ing “Glomb” by Koop from the album Sons of Koop. I’ve never heard of Koop and I never asked for it — but I really really like it. It’s a bit like Gotan Project — which I lis­ten to quite fre­quently and is prob­a­bly why last.fm decided to play it for me.
It’s like get­ting an intra­venous feed of pure new­ness.
Update: I made a few HTML tweaks so that the two wid­gets look like a sin­gle one. (Geek!)