My Next Obsession

Well folks, I'm officially back online (albeit a lot slower than before). Perhaps it's just because I'm a mindless pawn when it comes to marketing and I've been seeing a lot of adds for Telus High Speed lately, but I decided around this time last week to reconnect my Internet. It was connected on Friday and I already have a new obsession. I disconnected last time to rid myself of the evil that is Myspace. Thankfully this new obsession is a positive one (at least thus far), and I highly recommend all y'all to try it. It's called www.last.fm. Let me demonstrate:



It's a site that basically tracks what you listen to on your computer and then creates these charts and recommendations and so on and so forth based on it. You can also add friends (so if you do decide to sign up, look me up under "Autiomatic") and see what they're listening to, what recommendations they make, etc. Maybe a bit voyeuristic, but for somebody like me I'm just loving it.

So, in other related news, I also renewed my subscription with emusic.com, which has turned out to be an exceedingly good thing. For those of you who aren't familiar with emusic, it's a legal downloading site that caters to the obscure, indie-type-rock that I'm a fan of. For instance, you can download almost the entire Belle & Sebastian catalog, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, The New Pornographers, etc etc. Currently they have a promotion going on that you'll get 100 free downloads to see if you like the site. If not, you can back out and keep the downloads, if so, they have three download plans that are cheap and convenient. Geeze, I sound like I work for them. Anyways, I got my 100 downloads (plus the 30 I pay for with my subscription), and must say that I am pretty stoked on my finds. The majority of what's in my chart were actually from emusic.

This brings me to my next topic. Please, if you value music, check out Camera Obscura. Gorgeous, gorgeous music in the vein of Belle & Sebastian. Oh baby. Coincidentally, they're actually playing here on Tuesday, but I'm working, of course. Oh well, I'd like to see them, but I also don't want to ruin the mystique like when I saw Yo La Tengo a couple years back. They're one of my favourite bands, but witnessing actual people playing some of my favourite music nearly ruined it for me. That probably doesn't sound like it makes sense, but trust me, in my mind it does.

Anyways, I think that's about it for now. I'll leave you with this:



Peace,

Cameron

P.S. - If you decide to check out Camera Obscura further, try some of these tracks: Keep It Clean, I Need All the Help I Can Get, If Looks Could Kill, Suspended From Class. So good!