Skin Horse Soundtrack 5
Shaenon: Hey, it’s been a while since I did one of these!
Channing: Aw, man, this is a great lineup! How did we get through like four of these without using “Robot Parade” yet? That is what I want to know.
Shaenon: Incidentally, I’ll have a booth at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco next weekend. So if you’re in town, totally stop in at that thing.
Great songs, and I like the Book 5 color scheme. Have you decided when the Kickstarter campaign will launch?
With the Book 4 campaign, y’all taught me about Andrew Lang’s color fairytale books, and I downloaded the set of 12 using the Kobo app. I’ve been diligently reading through them ever since, and I’m still only on the Red book. At least they’re a good way to get through DMV lines and long plane flights.
My own first thought were of when would the Kickstarter begin as well.
Many thanks for that reminder about the Color Fairy books – I’m on Project Gutenberg now downloading the Epub versions.
For any and all readers of E-books out there – if you need to shift formats and there is no DRM, Calibre works great. I had many free e-books in HTML format that I was able to convert to Epub and put on my IPhone when I finally made the jump around this time last year.
It also has the benefit of allowing you to read multiple formats from your PC
It also allows you to convert Word documents and RTF into EBooks.
Boy, am I out of touch with music. Just one song I can remember. Even the artists I know, I don’t remember those particular songs.
Ah, well. On to iTunes…
My missus has been putting our CD collection into the computer. My iPod is now full of songs I remember upon listening, but don’t recognize most of the titles or artists. Even the recent ones escape me. Then again – I also stopped listening to the radio when I entered the military in 1990, so haven’t been paying attention to music anyway.
Yeah. 1985 was about my cutoff point—coincidentally (or not) when I moved out of my parents’ house and had to go to work. Plenty of stuff afterwards, but hardly any of it spanking brand-new.
Still…I’ve got over five thousand tracks on my iPod, so I don’t feel the loss that strongly. And I’m always being reminded of this and that and adding things along the way.
Including the duplicate tracks from multiple albums and such – Approaching 22K tracks. Obviously there is stuff in there belonging to the missus that I’ve never listened to. It all fits on my Classic though, with room to spare for podcasts and a couple of go-to audiobooks. (Neither grouping is included in the 22K – that’s just music.)
I try to arrange stuff by mood into playlists but most ends up in the general randomize.
EASILY about 6K of those are from the time-life collections such as “Sounds Of The Eighties”.
Yeah. I’ve got Beatles tracks in seven or eight versions…increases my chances of hearing ’em in Random mode…and they’re not the only ones…
Tom Petty? Tom Petty!? Blasphemy!
There’s only one Honeybee, and it’s by Steam Powered Giraffe!
Accept no substitutes!
Oh yeah…the URL…
http://youtu.be/ojYK6CW8gdw
That was supposed to be a link, not an embed. Really not sure what happened there, but I do apologize.
A while back Failure To Fire had some links to steampunk metal and dubstep. Wasn’t bad, I can only listen to that stuff in the appropriate mood.
Now I should archive-dive to try and find those links.
I pulled together the tracks for this on Spotify, and named it “Skin Horse”, if anyone else wants a handy way to listen through.
I can’t find the playlist in Spotify. Can you link directly to it or make sure it’s public? Thanks!
Not sure where fadeaccompli’s version went to, but I’ve put together my own which should hopefully work. If theirs disappeared due to Shaenon or Jeff asking for it to be taken down, though, mine will also be switched over to private when I hear the same. Until then, enjoy it!
I personally haven’t ever requested such a thing be taken down, and I doubt Shaenon has. So I don’t know what went wrong there.