I am not responsible for the fact that <ol> actually produces an unordered list.
Slightly OT, but I want to test a thesis:
The only way to listen regularly to The Beatles is on random. (Assuming you have a number of albums in iTunes or whatever and random gives you a diverse selection).
Personally, I cannot get myself excited to listen to any Beatles album except maybe The White Album. Random, at least, keeps me interested.
"Abbey Road" is like a huge counterexample -- enough to walk all over your little thesis. I like "Rubber Soul" too though come to think of it, I have not listened to it in a while.
CD 4, aka "this one also doesn't have a theme but it does have a lot of foreigners"
I'd like to complain that CD 4 does not, in fact, have *any* Foreigner.
re: 3
Yes, Abbey Road works really well as an album. Revolver too, imho.
re: the w-lfs-n playlists...
ffs, I have pretty eclectic and obscure tastes in music, but on each of those discs I have at most a couple of tracks in my collection ... I'm obviously not trying hard enough.
Will the boxed set be coming out at xmas?
this looks wonderful! thank you, ben.
Hook 'em Ben woo!
I see that he's arranged it so that through careful negotiation or, failing that, manipulation, I can assemble a complete collection.
Thanks so much, and yeah, I also feel pretty damn mainstream looking at this collection.
Also, I should get working on those mixes that I promised to people.
Talk Talk had a song other than "It's My Life"? I must hear it.
Thanks Ben. I'll shoot you an e-mail over the weekend.
My offer stands for anyone who is interested in a CD from me.
I've already wasted over an hour this morning trying to figure out how I can get my cd from Ben without blowing the cover on my impenetrable secret identity.
Chopper, I don't see no email address for you.
And once I do come up with a solution, you better believe I want CDs from anybody.
Since Ben already knows where you work (IP addresses and all that), you could have him send it to "Job Title at Company" or "Department at Company" and, if you have them, alert the mail people that you're expecting such a thing.
Yeah, I'm sure that will make Brock feel better about the penetration of his secret identity.
Where I come from they only rent in 6 month increments, and one big enough to fit a CD costs $66. Not saying Ben's CD isn't worth that much, but, well, if I had advance commitments from a few other people (Chopper? JAC?) the economics would work out more rationally.
Or, since I am Brock Landers, Ben can send the CD to me.
Perhaps you could just trust Ben.
Perhaps I'm revealing my ignorance, but why not post the music somewhere and have people burn their own CDs? No, you won't have something to clasp that you know w-lfs-n himself touched. But you could pretend.
Perhaps you could just trust Ben.
FUCK THE TROOPS!!!
It's not Ben I don't trust, Apo.
I renounce 30. I never get mail. I want physical mail, damnit.
Brock: You could ask Ben to send it to another person in your area, then get it from that person at the next meet-up.
Well, stop sending them my way then, SB.
I really want to know if Brock showed up at the meetup in a false moustache and dark glasses. "Brock Landers -- master of disguise!"
Looks like the DC area gets a complete set. The soundtrack for the next DC meetup has been provided by w-lfs-n.
But who knows when the next meetup will be, and who knows if Brock will manage to find it?
Brock -- Why not have w-lfs-n send it to a fictional address, and infiltrate the Boston post office to ensure it gets rerouted to you? I'm sure you could lay some loving on those lonesome postal clerks and get them to conspire with you.
who knows when the next meetup will be
One has to make these things happen. A CD from w-lfs-n provides extra incentive for organizing one.
34: Given the WIE phenomenon, I have to ask in which directions it is hilarious. (Though it is clearly hilarious.)
DA, I know that you learn to delay gratification in that land of deprivation to our north, but here in America, waiting possibly months to get a CD is NOT OK. Frankly, I don't see what's wrong with 24; I've done it myself, in a previous round of CD mailings.
I think people like to pretend that the bloggers don't all know their employers' names and addresses.
In fact, I was talking to someone yesterday who was horrified that I can see all the IP addresses of the people who visit my blog. I think it's like a blind spot.
Hey m. leblanc, how do you see referral logs for a blogspot blog? I've been using it for a little while but have not figured out how to look at referrals.
Where I come from they only rent in 6 month increments, and one big enough to fit a CD costs $66.
Ah, six months, right. But wouldn't a CD (in jewel case, 0.4"x4.9"x5.6") fit into the smallest size PO box (3"x5.5"xunknown)? Or do you mean to say teeny-tiny PO boxes go for $66 in Landersville?
I don't know. How big are CDs? I assumed they were about six inches in either direction, but I'm not a professional carpenter.
46: Our own tom has suggested a few ways around that on his own blog, if it really bothers them. I'm too lazy to look for the post, though, and the good ones required a fair bit of knowledge, or a friend with the same.
Ogged, I sent you an email. Just fyi because I don't know how often you check your unfogged account.
Ok, so here's the stupid question. Is the email address just one solid word @unfogged? Do you have a period in the middle of your name? Gimme a clue here.
49: But the diagonal of a 3"x5.5" box is 6.25". The slim-line CD case will fit with no worries. Hail Pythagoras and all that.
Also, what happens if someone sends you a package that won't fit in your box? I'd assume the post office would leave you a note to pick it up at the counter.
But what if the postmaster tries to squeeze it in straight, instead of diagonally? It won't fit!
Ogged, I sent you an email.
Uh, I check my email every three seconds, and I just got a message from a "Masako," but nothing from you. ogged at unfogged, right?
Surely packages for Brock can be sent to some other Boston commenter and exchanged through some elaborate process of meetings in public places with countersigns and blind drops. Taping it to the bottom of the front seat in one of the Swan Boats or something. ("The owl hoots at midnight." "But the rooster crows at dawn.")
57- weird. I rechecked and I definitely typed the correct address. I'll try to resend.
58 has the potential to be fun.
An href equals http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=876. Dinosaur Comics is in particularly good form today.
47: I use sitemeter. It's pretty eay to set up.
Guys, I just got a call that I've been selected as a semi-finalist for a fellowship I want really, really bad (it's basically a fellowship to do my dream project [well, dream in the law universe, anyway]). I'm a semi-finalist for two sponsor organizations! I have two days of interviews, in two weeks! I'm going to be calling on you all for dharma transmissions or whatever.
Email here is benw-lfs-n@unfogged.com, for the perplexed.
Brock—you wouldn't even have to wait for a meetup. You could arrange with someone to meet particularly for this purpose. Get an "anonymous email account" (I here they do it over the web these days) and contact one of the people you didn't meet yesterday.
I here they do it over
What's happening to today's youth?
Oh, hey, I know someone you work with, Brock. (No, I'm not telling who.)
67- How do you know it's not me?
I'm very interested in seeing the post referenced in 50, if anyone has a link.
Here, I'll send an email from ogged to your work account and let's see if you get it...
Brock, if you're concerned, the easiest way to go is probably to install Torpark. It makes browsing slower, but will hide your true IP address.
Also, what happens if someone sends you a package that won't fit in your box?
It doesn't mean you can't have fun; you just have to be careful.
I have two days of interviews, in two weeks!
Good luck!
No, you won't have something to clasp that you know w-lfs-n himself touched.
No, I want something touched by the Fickle Finger Of w-lfs-n. Anyway, I didn't request one, but now that I've seen the tracklistings, I'd like a copy of CD4, Ben, if it isn't too much trouble. Delighted to kick in a few bucks for shipping and supplies, if you take paypal.
Talk Talk had a song other than "It's My Life"? I must hear it.
Boy, will you be surprised. (That entire album is excellent, btw.)
DC-areaists should be aware that one of the rules of determining recipients was that I wanted to minimize the number of people living in the same city who got the same thing. If I knew more about our NYC-dwelling commenters (like, how many of the people getting a cd are one) I'd have done the same for them.
Since Ben already knows where you work (IP addresses and all that)
I do now, anyway.
Paul: sure, send me your address.
Well, you gave JAC and I the same cd, and we're both Chicago-dwellers. Have you forgotten the third coast so soon?!
Seriously, though, it's cool.
JAC and me. I guess I did forget about that.
I should mention here that I have offered to make CDs of Arabic music for anyone who wants one.
It's my contribution to the promotion of cultural understanding.
m leblanc: best luck and all spare positive karma!
Fast work Ben -- very impressive.
I'll send you my address. Also, if you include a return address I will send you a CD as well.
Is the Andrew Bird (from CD 1) this song?
da: I want a cd of Arabic music, please.
NickS: no, but it does include the line "sovay, all on a day".
I've been trying to get my hands on some Asmahan, DA. Can you hook me up with any of her stuff? I'm a big fan of Arabic music, but not too knowledgable about anything besides some of the bigger names who've had success in Europe or the US. Who would you recommend?
Yeah, good luck m.!
mcmc: my email address is on my sidebar, or the kitten can send me flickr mail, I'll get it either way.
Armsmasher needs a new means of expressing approbation.
65: Cheers, email sent. And I'm fine with receiving the same CD as m.leblanc (good luck with the interviews!), though the avant-garde CD could be very nice if you're looking for an alternative. I'm just amazed she remembered where I'm from.
Paul: I have a few tracks by Asmahan. I love those old songs but they were hard to find on CD in Cairo; the older stuff tends to be cas[s]ette only. You might also like stuff by her bro, Farid al-Atrache (al-Atrache, interestingly, means "the deaf"); Shadia is also from the same era and has a similar style. Also, early Fairouz.
Agree with everyone else, leblanc. I hope you murderate them at the interviews. I have no idea what the project is, but unless it's "People for the Even Better Treatment of Chets," you seem like the perfect sort of person for (what I assume is the general area of) the project.
Who does a girl have to fuck around here to get a CD she asked for twice, hmm?
That's "whom", and I think you have to fuck ogged.
Ben doesn't know what he's talking about. The answer to 94 is me.
94- I don't know, but I propose experimentation. Just start with one of us, and work your way methodically through us all until you finally get your CD. Then you'll know for future reference who precisely you have to fuck to get a CD you've asked for twice.
Oh wait, CD. I thought you said VD.
Shh, Apo. If we talk about my disease status, Ogged won't fuck me and I'll never get my CD.
16 -- I'm a little distressed that you would offer to send CD's when you know what we really want is smoked meat.
Clownae--send me your address and I'll send you some bacon. How many strips fit in a #10 envelope, do ya think?
Nakku, Emerson, and A White Bear! I need your addresses!
I'm very interested in seeing the post referenced in 50, if anyone has a link.
Don't know the specific post, but anonymouse might be the kind of thing you're looking for.
Also, in regards to getting mail without divulging too much information, ben could just send it General Delivery to your city, to be picked up at the main post office. Though I'm not sure if they'd require identification to retrieve it, which would defeat the pseudonymity-preserving purpose behind it all. Unless you have a "Brock Landers" ID, of course.
Now I really want to know who Brock is, that his identity is so impenetrable.
The Supersilent track is actually "4", not "6". It is from the album 6.
Is it too late to add myself to the CD request queue? The primary reason I hadn't done so previously is that I feel so musically ignorant that listening to far less eclectic fare than Ben (I correctly assumed) would send helps to expand my musical horizons and give me a better idea of what I do and don't like. But I've realized that the truth of the preceding does not actually constitute a reason to avoid getting a CD.
I haven't added myself to the music queue because I was and am convinced that I will not live up to Ben's musical tastes.
Both of you are crazy! CDs 1, 2 and 4 are totally accessible to the maxx, and 3 isn't exactly "out there" either. You should listen to the other nyc-bound CDs (of which there are ... two).
Great CD!!! I liked the Norwegians especially.
