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I fail at blogging.  I wrote this post like three weeks ago and thought I published it.  Apparently not.  Here it is anyway.
The biggest difference between this and previous PJ records is that its…happy?  My first reaction when I started listening was, “huh? what happened to the dark and brooding PJ I know and love?” [...]

The most recent song to get really heavy repeat play on my CD player.
Carbon Leaf is a band from Richmond, VA that has attained some pretty significant regional success, but has only made it to #136 on the Billboard charts.  Nonetheless their 2004 release Indian Summer has been one of my favorite albums since I [...]

Apparently this has been around for a while and I just didn’t know about it, but if you’re in to music and you like finding new stuff you should definitely check out Pandora Radio.  Pandora Radio is an Internets radio station created by the Music Genome Project, where they’ve identified some 400 characteristics to describe [...]

I’m totally stealing this idea from TJ (I hope he doesn’t mind), but I finally had a good shuffle that wasn’t interrupted by a law lecture or encore break from one of the PJ concerts I have on CD so I wanted to throw it out there.
Basically, on a “Shuffle Friday” he takes his iPod, [...]

I’m completely hooked on this song right now.  This one comes off of the second disc of the Lost Dogs and Rarities album.  For context, Lost Dogs is a compilation of B-sides from singles they released and songs that were recorded during sessions for previously released albums that didn’t make it on the list.  For [...]

I love my Freakonomics daily desk calendar.  Some totally random facts about totally random stuff.  I thought these three days last week were worth sharing.  For a little context, facts and figures are often bunched into a themed topic so here are the facts in the order I pulled them off.
10 December 2008 – On [...]

So I’m pretty late to the game on this one but this CD is awesome.  Music critics, who I rarely agree with, having been raving about Feist since her single “1234″ was used in an iPod Nano commercial (maybe even before that).  I heard the first single and was definitely a fan, but I didn’t [...]

One of the new features in the latest version of iTunes is Genius.  The Genius sidebar looks at information about songs that are in your library and recommends other songs from the iTunes music store that you might be interested in buying.  There is also a feature that creates playlists for you based on your [...]