Bazooka-Joe
Reno, NV, United States

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iTunes I'm Diggin On Today:

• "Photograph" by Weezer
• "Dani California" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Seven Spanish Angels" by Ray Charles
• "Always Love" by Nada Surf
• "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" by Death Cab For Cutie
• "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers

My Links:

• My Monthly Songwriter's Column
• My Myspace Site
• My Bass Gear
• The Official Shotgun Rules
• Coming Soon - Some Christian Music Reviews I Do
• So funny they shouldn't even be allowed to update it weekly

My Friends:

• Go Off the Main Road with Dan
• Come Ride the C-Train
• You Drank What? - Pecadillo's Brainchild
• Michael Sorensen, A Watercolor Genius
• Challies Blog
• The Doulogos, for some real "deep thoughts" and Biblical Perspective

For a long time I was a Macaphobic personality. I hated anything that came from Apple with a prejudice that I can’t really explain because looking back it only makes a modicum of sense to me now. I transitioned from hating Macs out of fear of the unknown to hating them out of spite. Around 1997 I started having to support them in, you guessed it, an education environment. The typical Mac I had support was what IT people call of the 68k variety. I can’t for the life of me even remember why they called it that but I’m pretty sure it had something to do with the model of Motorola processor at the time. The Power Mac was introduced around that time and we had some of those around which were much nicer hardware-wise but I still pretty much hated the Mac OS interface all the way through OS 8 or so. Version 9 was much better and I hear version X is pretty nice. I started coming around and thinking more of Macs around OS 9, though I preferred Windows and Wintel hardware and frankly still do, but I no longer have this unjustifiable loathing for everything Apple.

In fact, I’ve recently fallen head over heals for an Apple product. God save the iPod! I love this device with the same unjustifiable passion that I despised early Macs. I’ve got a playlist for nearly any mood I happen to be in. And iTunes! Holy cow, what a great program. It rips, it plays, has visualization plug-ins, legalized downloading, iMix sharing, you name it. It does it all. And it does it all BETTER than the individual programs I used to use to do those tasks. I’ll be posting some links to some cool iMixes soon. My goal is to have one for every mood I’m in and every task I have to perform, particularly at work. Coming soon is a “Filling Out the Timesheet” playlist. Followed by a “Stuck in the Elevator” and “Root Cause Analysis” playlists. Eventually I’ll get around to a “DMV Line” and a soothing “1040A”.

But let’s get some audience participation going here. What are some good premises for creating Playlists?

Bazooka-Joe made it so at 12:31 PM