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I've spent the evening going through some of the accumulated podcasts in my iTunes folder. Train rides to the city are, it turns out, just about the perfect length to fit an episode of Studio 360 or This American Life. I'm loving it: yesterday on the way home, I got to listen to Studio 360's crazy interview with crazy Courtney Love.

She: "Can I just get some f*ing coffee? I feel like I'm gonna die." [exits]
Host: [whispers into mic] "I don't. know what. to do."

Anyway, the real point of this entry is that tonight, I was listening to All Songs Considered's fall preview podcast. By now, most of the albums have been released by now, but seeing as I stop listening to the radio beyond NPR news anytime I'm not driving regularly, it's almost all news to me.

Anyway, it was really really good to hear some new music. My iPod is starting to get pretty stale, since I no longer have anyone else's music library to raid. (Even after leaving Silver Street, I still had all of my uncle's music in DC -- he got me hooked on Sufjan Stevens, among others.) All Songs Considered left me with two major things to think about:

1. The Be Good Tanyas covered "When Doves Cry"?! *boggles* I can't decide if this is brilliant or slightly appalling -- banjos plus Prince does not equal any sort of logic, to my mind -- but I think I might need to own it. ( more on cover songs and why I love them )

2. I need new music in my life -- and I desperately need to buy the new Beck album -- but there's really no room in my budget for it. So I went looking for Pandora (based on mentions from eccentric_hat -- I think? -- among others). And Pandora might just be my new favorite thing. I made a "folkies" playlist, of the Be Good Tanyas and Old Crow Medicine Show variety, and a "kinda dance-y" playlist of mostly hip-hop stuff. There's so much music that I don't know about! Mostly it plays a bunch of people that I've never heard of -- which is awesome -- but sometimes, mysteriously, the Red Hot Chili Peppers pop up. And I'm equally happy.

On that note, I hope that you all have a lovely Thanksgiving. Dad's rosemary-stuffed turkey, mashed potatoes, and pie: the best damn day of the year.

I figure, who doesn't need a sing-along right now?

Doe, a deer, a female deer...

Plus I get to use my icon, joy!