Things are good here today in WilloLand
I've been pretty sick this week, but amazingly my spirits are very, very high. I'm feeling great about life! woohoo!! Pretty wild really, when I haven't had a voice for 2 days, and I'm hacking up... well, you get the idea. Through it all I've been giddy and truly enjoying every minute of my pajamarama party I've been having here in the comfort of my sweet little home. yay for homes!Alright, so besides some work.. I've been playin around with some more iTunes "now playing" goodies. I checked out Kung-Tunes (thanks leen!), but it looks like it has sort of died and the wave of the future is in AudioScrobbler. However lastnight, when I was messin around with it all, I was listening to 97X (streaming radio) and since it's not sending out correctly formatted songs in iTunes, AudioScrobbler would accept it. Which sucks, really, cuz I'm listening to a lot of great tracks through them! And also that means it wouldn't work with my other fav internet station, Bagel Radio. Total bummer! I probably listen to streaming radio a good 3 days/week, so it's a bummer it won't report that - but oh well!
Alright, so Kung-Tunes doesn't care about the reporting, so it would at least report that I was listening to the station (which is placed in the song title field), so then I was thinking maybe I'd craft up some PHP include to display my last 5 songs on my site. And then I tried to do that with the AudioScrobbler for awhile, too... and basically I'm too much a geek for my own good here. I want it, but I want it to be customized the way *I* want it. And after trying a couple things and not having them work, and then trying a couple more things and not having them work - and being a total newbie PHP person - long story short, I looked back at my pretty AudioScrobbler page and said, aah to hell with it - that's good for now. So without further ado - check this page out to see what I've been listening to!!
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So guess what?!?! Me and my girlfriends are getting together at a recording space and playing tomorrow night!! My friend's Misty & Hez on bass and Jem on guitar and me rockin the drums!! Kick ass, huh? I'm STOKED. Unbelievably we're going to play Justin Timberlake's Rock Your Body. HAHAAA! I had never heard the song before downloading it & grabbing some tabs for it, but it's got a pretty funky beat. I'm excited to just play with these hottie girlfriends of mine. It'll be the first time I've played with anyone else - let alone having anyone else *see* me play besides my drum teacher!! Should be fun!!
I also made a quick CD of other songs that would be fun to learn the drums on. Most indie music type songs are relatively the same beat structure, so I've got that down pretty good, and I have been practicing doing fills and some open high hat "accents" (for lack of a better term), and it's been fun! I totally feel like I'm getting better and am so psyched because recently had that big huzzah of "oh my god, if I commit myself to learn something and go for it - I can actually learn it and get better!" hahaa I know that sounds simple, but faced with this challenge I was sure I would never get it, ya know? So it's so incredibly kick ass for me to feel like I'm making progress. YAY!
At the time of this post, my iTunes was playing:
Harnessed in Slums from the album "Vee Vee" by Archers Of Loaf
