Streaming Meemies

Last month I wore a pedometer for 28 days to track my mileage, and today was the payout. I walked 90 miles in a month and got a water bottle with my company name on and a bag with...my company name on. This was not a great surprise. I've been with the company for many years and I have an entire wing of the house dedicated to storing bits of tat with the company name on from promos like this one.

Still, 90 miles. Not bad. I wasn't in the Top 25, though, and I do suspect certain business units of cheating. But what can you do?

So far this month, the firm hasn't required me to wear any tracking devices at all, except the cellphone, so things are looking up.

I got my copy of Horehound today. Now I just have to take it to the car to replace the mp3 version I've been playing for the last 24 hours. If you don't have a copy of Horehound, don't fret. It was being streamed free some time ago which means the web is now so littered with copies that you trip over them if you don't watch where you're going, like they were big fat sewer rats underfoot. You could grab one of those as it comes past.

Talking of grabbing mp3 copies, NPR are streaming the entire The Dead Weather Set of their 06/13/2009 show at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. Just click to listen. It's an excellent set - the band really does get better with every single outing. Of course that means they'll get to Weakly Godlike status approximately four minutes before they all go back to their original bands, but you can't have everything.

If streaming doesn't cut it for you, you can capture audio streams for free using Freecorder, a browser plug-in that has pride of place in my arsenal (oo er) because it has yet to crash anything, unlike every other plug-in ever. Of course, someone somewhere has probably set up a flac torrent, but I'm too lazy to burn CDs. Didn't take long to get blase.

Similar deal at WOXY. The Dead Weather, or perhaps their cleaning lady (to judge from the playlist) "took over" the station for an hour yesterday and an hour today. Both are streaming online here. It sounds a bit phoned-in - the skits are taken from a popular, highly amusing TDW video that's doing the rounds

and the playlist is almost all songs from bands the members of TDW have played in, Third Man Records artists, and a couple of weird ones (AC/DC) and obvious ones (Captain Beefheart). Still, it's a nice playlist and it does mean you can listen to a potted get-into-their-psyche session in the bath or something. And catch up with Third Man's other acts.

At the gym tonight the Zune picked one of my favorite tracks, Baby's Got an Atom Bomb, by Fluke. This one can be my ode to Baby Ruthless. One wouldn't want to leave her out while I'm thinking of odes. She's scary.



Hm. Never seen the videogame. And I tend to play it a bit louder than that. What I like about Atom Bomb is after the long, breathless list of things Baby got, the singer gives up and adds, "She got everything ever from A to Z". Which you have to admit covers it and is also a good fit for Ms. Ruthless.

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