It’s that late night smell…

I don’t sleep at night.

I nap.

Because two to three hours of sleep is not a night of sleep.

It’s a fucking NAP.

As much as I love naps (and I do love naps) it’s ridiculous that I am only capable of sleeping two to three hours a night. And those aren’t even continuous hours. Those are broken into one-hour-or-less intervals.

Why yes I AM about to start hucking rocks a people.

Let’s just say there’s a reason my music listening habits have been a little more…obsessive…than usual.

I’d be in a gaddamn rubber room by now otherwise.

Sometime back in 2006 I was alerted to a website called Last.fm. I have no recollection how I originally found out about it, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. There is an iTunes plugin that tracks your listening habits. And because I’m obsessive about my music listening habits, it seemed like fun times to use. There is a huge margin for error with it, but I think it is a fairly accurate depiction of things. Also, this doesn’t include the HOURS of iPod listening I did at my desk at work because I never used the iPod connectivity capabilities. I’m too lazy for that. There’s also a big gap from somewhere in the last five years, because when I met Bob, my listening habits took a dive, other than on the Music Choice channels, and I didn’t log many hours in iTunes until sometime after we moved into LivingLocation#2. And they’ve seen a big spike since we moved into our house last year. (LivingLocation#3)

According to my last.fm stats as of right now I’ve listened to 47,628 songs from 649 unique artists. (Also not accurate, but really, what can you expect from a free service?)

And while we’re looking at stats, my current iTunes library sits at 7,251 songs, which is 19.5 days worth of music and 35.08GB of space used. This does not include all of the CDs I own, or the arsenal of mp3s I acquired sometime before iTunes even existed. I have absolutely no idea how many different artists this includes as I am too lazy to figure that out. iTunes says there are 945 different artists in my library. I take that number with a grain of salt also, as I do not consider collaborations to be separate artists from the individuals involved. If two people do a duet, they are not three different acts, iTunes, they are two who did one freaking song together.

ANYWAY.

My top 10 most played artists in last.fm are rather unsurprising. And haven’t seen a whole lot of movement over time. Better Than Ezra worked their way in within the last year when I discovered that I really liked more than the five songs that were on the Drive List. And then saw a massive spike when a handful of songs ended up on the Ben & Marina soundtrack. Sometime within the last two years Rooster Teeth worked their way into the top 10 based mostly on the Red Vs Blue season 8 soundtrack. If I ever catch up on all of the podcasts I haven’t listened to, it’ll see another spike in numbers. And now…in little over a month, there has been a new entry in the top 10. (Actually the top 6…soon to be top 5.) And really…I’m not that surprised.

Bob walked in after work yesterday, paused to catch the song that was playing, and shook his head with a grin.

“Boy, when you fixate on something, you REALLY fixate.”

Yes.

Yes I do.

Ask me if I care.

The answer to that would be NO.

That’s 1,800 plays in approximately 12 weeks, when he first landed in iTunes, and roughly 1,450 of those plays are just from the last three weeks.

If I’d had the last.fm service and iTunes back when I discovered Ingram Hill, their numbers would probably be at least double that of 3 Doors Down. I listened to June’s Picture Show almost exclusively for MONTHS. They have a new album coming out next month. I am stupidly excited for it. Andy Grammer will have to take a back seat when that one lands in my hot little hands.

In the meantime…

I still want to pinch his cheeks.

Where Are You
Andy Grammer

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