My word of the week, that I invented.
“undergommed”. adj. – the feeling of disappointment you get when watching a guitarist play (no matter how talented) because they’re not as good as Jon Gomm.
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I had the enormous pleasure of seeing Jon Gomm perform at Lizottes Newcastle last night. Two days ago I hadn’t even heard of Jon, but thanks to a timely e-mail from Lizottes I was able to see this amazing guitarist do his stuff.
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Thanks to iTunes, sqlTunes, SQL Server and my inner nerd(*), I can report definitively that my top three favourite music album purchases of 2011 were:
(*) who am I kidding with “inner nerd” – I’m nerd all the way to the surface. Here’s the SQL that gave me the results – note the use of various keywords that I added to track comments in iTunes in order to exclude singles, partial albums, or bonus tracks from the computation of ratings.
select album, artist, AVG(Rating) as Rating, COUNT(*) as TrackCount
from Track T
where
ISNULL(Genre, '') <> 'Classical'
AND ISNULL(Genre, '') <> 'Podcast'
AND isnull(Comments, '') NOT like '%Single%'
AND isnull(Comments, '') NOT like '%PartialAlbum%'
AND isnull(Comments, '') NOT like '%BonusTrack%'
AND Album is not null
and (select MAX([Date Added]) from track T1
where T1.Album = T.Album and T1.[Date Added]
between '1 jan 2011' and '31 dec 2011') is not null
group by album, artist
having count(*) > 1
order by AVG(Rating) desc
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I’m currently delighted by …
1970’s prog rock. I cranked up the stereo volume this afternoon and listened to Rick Wakeman’s “King Arthur”, then to Sebastian Hardie’s “Four Moments”. Two of the finest albums of the prog rock genre.
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“The definition of an invisible girl should be transparently clear
You say you can see through me, but that’s not what I want to hear”
Invisible Girl, by Blue Vinyl Lounge
“You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you”
Your’re so Vain, by Carly Simon.
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It’s my birthday. I didn’t get a theremin, but I did get the double CD Beatles White Album. The cool thing with this is after importing into iTunes I didn’t need to upload any cover art.
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It’s my birthday next week. Last night I dreamed I got a theremin for my birthday. Truly I did. I wonder what it means?
Update: I think I figured out why I dreamed of a theremin. I’ve been listening to Sarah Blasko’s “As Day Follows Night” lately on which several tracks feature a musical saw, which has a theremin like sound.
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Dumb ideas* of the digital age: Cloud music services where your music listening experience is dependent on the vagaries of internet connectivity.
*To be fair, I thought that SMS on mobile phones was a dumb idea – billions of people disagreed with me. Incredible.
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