Randomized Perfection

I'm almost always listening to iTunes while working, in random mode, with the cross fade effect maxed out. At last count, my library holds exactly 5900 songs, or 37.61 GB of audio. Breaking that down to a more understandable measure, that's twenty days, five hours, sixteen minutes and sixteen seconds worth of music. And that's not even counting my 90 CD-Rs, each holding around 5-7 albums and various singles. If you add in my physical library of 6,000 CDs, most acquired during my stint at public radio, I probably have more music than years left on my body.

Randomized play lists are about the only way I can listen to music these days - a song here, a song there - enough of a taste to satisfy and move on. Left alone, iTunes just slaps whatever song it feels like in queue, without any regard for matching b.p.m. or melodic flow.

iTunes is often clueless. Others, it finds an eerie groove that's almost terrestrial in intelligence; a harmony in a sea of dissonance, achieved through unfettered randomized variables. This morning, iTunes had one of those moments.

1. Kings of Convenience - I Don't Know What I Can Save You From (Royksopp Remix)
2. Stacey Kent - Little Girl Blue
3. Charlie Haden - En La Orilla Del Mundo
4. Da Lata - O Mago E A Borboleta
5. Tim Tetlow - Cyrenic
6. King Tubby - Bag A Wire (Avatars of Dub Remix)
7. Jim Morrison - Curses, Invocations
8. Jorge Ben - Zumbi
9. World of Apples - Prairie Oyster
10. Boards of Canada - Music is Math

And then it stumbled with a shitty Dimitri From Paris song.