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[hummingwolf]

The anger which began the day mellowed into a quieter sort of energy by the time I managed to talk to any agents of Hell bureaucracy. It's probably just as well--the caseworker who seems closest to being in charge of anything did sound terribly stressed. She complained that they're switching over to a new system in January, everybody's spending all their time in training, and nothing is getting done. She may have expected sympathy from me. She didn't get it. I am glad, however, that anger didn't impel me to add any unnecessary rudeness to my necessary pestering of the woman. Don't want her to hate me; just want her to get sufficiently tired of hearing from me that she'll do anything in her power to get everything satisfactorily settled.

During my brief walk tonight, wet spots on the pavement looked like they were smoking under the streetlights. Maybe if I walked more often on cold nights I'd be used to it, but this time I kept dodging puddles instinctively as if they were on fire.

Launchcast introduced a new version of their player yesterday. Since the new version lists genres for each song played, I decided to sign into my alternate Yahoo account and listen to my station for a while, keeping track of all genres listed. Much to my surprise, the playlist yesterday and today was not entirely stuck in Adult Alternative mode. Suddenly I don't feel quite so old after all, at least not until I see what did get played and how many of the songs are by artists I've been listening to for the last twenty years.

Most songs were placed by the Launch team into multiple genres. If anyone's curious, out of 38 songs played, the following genres were represented:

Adult Alternative: 7 songs
African: 1
Ambient: 2
Celtic: 2
Classic Rock: 3
Contemporary Christian: 1
Disco: 1
Electronica: 7
Folk: 1
Funk: 1
Fusion: 1
Gothic Rock: 2
Hard Rock: 5
Heavy Metal: 2
Hip-Hop/Soul: 1
House and Garage: 1
Indie Rock: 1
Industrial Rock: 4
Mainstream Pop: 4
Mainstream Rap: 1
Mainstream Rock: 6
Modern Folk: 10
Modern R&B: 1
Modern Rock: 15
New Age: 3
New Wave: 2
Progressive Rock: 4
Psychedelic Rock: 1
Rock: 2
Soft Pop: 3
Techno: 5
World: 1

I think I need to get back in the habit of listening to lots & lots of world music and the subgenres thereof--this list is too mainstream. Oh! My station's now playing some ridiculously long Indian piece. This is a good start.

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

you forgot a genre, cb!

Joseph Arthur: 12

(where do the bureaucrats keep Cerberus? i think he's sitting on your paperwork.)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

But Vicki, I was listening to my station, not yours! :-) Though I do need to listen to your station again sometime soon. Maybe more stuff in the Joseph Arthur genre is just what I need.

As for Cerberus--I only wish I knew where they were keeping him and what offering he wants before he'll let the paperwork go. ::sigh::

you must . . .

[bearybipolar.livejournal.com]

you must type fast,my friend . . .

just guessing . . .

i *love* the new player window on launchcast!

i switched my genres ratings a couple of weeks

to include more holiday music in my mix . . .

Re: you must . . .

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I do type fast, but I learned how to use the little back-arrow on the new player so I can see which genres I missed! There hasn't been much holiday music on my station when I've listened to it, though that may be because I don't listen to my own station very often.