Weird Play Lists

I occasionally do somewhat strange things in iTunes. I made a playlist of songs containing the word Love or Heart, I made one for our new Champions characters that was pretty cool, and now I have a new one: Dead.

It contains only musicians or bands that are dead or a member of said band has died.

At the moment it contains: B-52's, Beatles, Blues Brothers, The Cars, The Doors, Elvis, Grateful Dead, John Lennon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Led Zeppelin, Ofra Haza, Paul & Linda McCartney, Pink Floyd, Queen, Roy Orbison, Stan Rogers, Styx, Traveling Wilburys, and The Who.

Interestingly, it would appear that no member of Electric Light Orchestra has died.

And no, I don't own any Elvis records, but I do have a set of his songs covered by some rock greats, such as Robert Plant, The Pogues, Paul McCartney, Jesus & Mary Chain, and Bruce Springsteen.

I'm looking forward to hearing how this list works out, though I need to whittle it down: it's at 661 songs, 1.7 days of music, and 3.3 gig: it won't fit on my iPod as-is, gotta do some whacking.

It's the Great President, Charlie Brown!

http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2970

I'm betting it'll be good for a laugh from Debora.

Doonesbury Say What?

"For eight U.S. presidential elections during the period 1960-2004, the rapid blinker during debates received fewer overall votes than his opponent. In seven of these eight elections, the rapid blinker also lost the electoral vote and was defeated at the polls."
-- Journal of Psychology observation, cited on net in reference to McCain blinking 3,000 times during the third debate

Huh. I wonder what Obama's blink rate was.