Upgrade to Walmart

It's sad, I missed yesterday's Cuong Vu concert. To make up for it, I searched celebrity playlists of artists I had seen live in the past for new music pre-streams. Interface: iTunes Music Store. iForgot, and iRemembered: Apple is American! Their visual 'explicit' vs 'clean' music tagging made this abundantly clear. Upgrade their Software (my Software?), install a bit more of Walmart thinking on my machine (their machine?).

Walmart? I think it was Naomi Klein who told the story of how even the old Nirvana's changed their lyrics so that their CD's would be stocked in Walmarts throughout the US...

* the pics: Nils Petter Molvaer likes it explicit, while Helmet buy clean music! (ok, Helmet are actually much less boybandish than it looks like on the pic (though there's pretty daft lyrics as well, 'I know that you're clever you've mentioned that before', genius), but the pic itself: hilarious, I like it, guy rocking to a palm tree drum jungle or something)

Ultimate Privacy with Dackelblut

Finally I've managed to listen to legendary German band DACKELBLUT, and I didn't even notice... (sausage dog, sausage dog, sausage dog...)

When you listen to music on last.fm, your listening will make public history by default. Who cares? Set aside what the machines do - from a human point of view, you've got ultimate privacy. None of the people important to you will ID your bad taste. In fact, they really DON'T want to know what's going on in your ears, it's all been too much: Music/Audioscrobbler, Pictures/Flickr, Words/Blogger... (hi Flickr - some hassling advice over there?)

How about you? Are your ears growing bigger? Do you find new and exciting ways to navigate your tastes? Will you give in to taste information overload in the end, just liking it all?

Mach-o-theque

The Macho takes it all, 'The Winner takes it all', what do you do if your boyfriend likes ABBA? (this is p-u-r-e-l-y hypothetical writing, so don't laugh, but:) Why do couples do this shit? The media shit. I'm fed up with it. When I visit a befriended couple, in 3 out of 4 cases I visit a scene of media terror. Media as in: digitally stored Music and Movies.

It's his stereo, so she has to hold back with choosing the music. It's a shared flat. It's 'more important to him' (aaaaah) than to her which movie to watch, so he'd better choose ('this is a CLASSIC you'll HAVE to like it baby!'). How can so many women just STAND to co-consume their guy's bad taste? Please stop it! Save Music and Movies! Control technology that's in your living room! (Which might as well mean shutting it down every once in a while.)