Excitations? No not really.

So I am trying to listen to 3 new songs a day on my ipod and then rating them. This is to break my habit of listening to the same old songs by the same old bands. My ipod is full of stuff I have never heard as it was mostly filled by my brother, my Dad and the music catalogue of where I used to work.

I looked at my ipod stats as to "most played" and my top 5 included 3 songs from the Arcade Fire, a Belle and Sebastian track, and weirdly my number one most played song was "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys. It has been played a full 96 times! I have no idea how this happened. I don't really like it. I would probably skip it if it came up on shuffle. Number 2 "Black Mirror" by the Arcade Fire had only had 15 playings.

Something is awry here. Who has done all this listening? My Dad likes the Beach boys, but not obsessively. My brother likes them an average amount - you know nice to have on on a sunny afternoon , and we never tried to book the Beach Boys (the ones left alive) where I used to work. Therefore I am sleep ipod listening.

8 days

This wasn't even my new year's resolution. And yet, I have managed to get a week into the new year without any involuntary optical salinisation. Woot!

I also discovered that according to Wikipedia (home of truth), I get FIVE for free per month, as this is normal for women apparently. Seems a lot - that's at least once a week. Given my 8 snivel free days, I can average every four days for the rest of the month and still be in the range "normal".