Electro Disco Pop Is My Guilty Pleasure

Some times I have pretensions of liking deep house, electronic experimental, indie rock…But I checked my most played iTunes list; is all electro-disco-pop.Top of the list recently is The Ravonettes – their new album, In and Out of Control is not instant love for me as LUST, LUST, LUST.  (Maybe because I instantly loved the title… Lust… Lust… Lust…) The new album is more upbeat, with fewer hooky tunes – but it’s got the trademark wall of hazy sound. I’m going to get into it.High rotation on my list is also Desire – best song is ‘Don’t call’, ‘Mirror Mirror’ and ‘Colorless Sky’. Big surprise that Johnny Jewel is behind Desire; also of italians do it better; chromatics; glass candy – all artists who have been in heavy rotation in my digital record player.Which brings me to – why is eMusic a walled garden? As I’m writing this now, I would like to link to all these artists on emusic. Its an excellent music wiki; I love that ‘editor’ plus ‘regular peeps’ reviews, plus it automatically pulls the artists info from YouTube, Wikipedia, Flickr in one page. I would be GREAT if other people could see it!Think of all the excellent google indexing they could have, tons of organic traffic and many more subscriptions! Grrr – opportunity wasted makes me mad. Also, I hate that emusic doesn’t automatically tell me when there is a new album by an artist I have already downloaded.All things I would love to fix. I wish they had something like mystarbucksidea.com where I could tell them about this. I’ve emailed emusic (because in actuality I’m a big fan girl of the site) quite a few times of things they need to add to site – but never any response.Booo product manager.

Delete, Empty Trash Can

So as of recently – oh say – past six months I have heard a lot of crazy things. Okay, crazy IMHO.Things like…’… so I asked my mom to pray every day so that jinns don’t put a spell on me…”… you cannot eat more than two types of desserts in one meal. It’s not religiously allowed…’Initially, I started writing these crazy things down. I would recount them to people – expecting to hear ‘that’s f*****g crazy!’.But I didn’t.And it freaked me out. Seems the crazy rabbit hole can be pretty deep.My new philosophy is; I pretend to not hear crazy speak. As in, I listen to people when they tell me things which are ‘CRAZY’ and I smile and nod. And then, I go into my memory database and press delete – empty trash can.