My other obsession . . .

Okay, even I think that is funny. I have many other obsessions, as fully recorded in my google reader folders and tags.

Let's see . . . we have my personal obsessions: hoops, SEC football, the wire, cover songs, live recordings of cover songs, and my semi-professional obsessions with fashion, media matters, indie music marketing, productivity, technology, and the daily software downloads from lifehacker to make my macbookpro the best possible machine.

Now I have forgotten about what this entry was to be. Ah, yes, chief among my myriad obsessions is music.

It's 2 am. The mister and the furball of love are both asleep and I am listening to The Kooks live acoustic cover of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy from the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge show. It could be my new favorite song, along with Lily Allen's live acoustic cover of The Kooks' Naive.

Itunes is on shuffle, so we went from The Kooks to Norman Mason & Crew's "Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll" (sent to me by Al in 2005) and then it jumped to a hip-hop demo (which is better than I had remembered, but it takes more than a good song to make it).

Now I am on a track by Bobby Valentino, who is apparently a singer with Ludacris's DTP. It says it's been in iTunes since April 28, 2005. I cannot remember ever hearing this before, though it isn't terrible. Catchy little track, very spare instrumentation. It was mislabeled as "pop", so it should come up at least randomly. At least a 3 star.

The Louis XIV track is on the cusp of deletion. It's a 2, which is generous. It's not a terrible song, per se, it's just kinda boring -- the kiss of death for a "rock" song.

I have a Miles Davis palate cleanser -- Flamenco Sketches (original take). My ringtone is still "So What." It makes the phone ringing so much less annoying.