Introducing InMyEars™
As a full-time stay-at-home dad these days, I often find myself with my hands full. By which I mean, full of different things than they once were, and not so much full of pencils and paper and pianos and performing. This time is a treasure and I’m not interested in trading it away for anything, musical or otherwise. And while this season has not left me with a lot of time for writing and performing and recording, there will be time for such things when there is time.
BUT, while my hands have been full, I’ve made it a point to get my EARS full as well. I’ve found some great tools for discovering, listening to, and sharing new music, and I’ve got some things to share with you.
So I’d like to invite you to hop into my ears. If you’re interested, you’ve got some options:
- Come find me on last.fm! I use last.fm to “scrobble” all my listening (from several streaming radio sites, my droid, my own computer, etc.)—and I do the majority of my listening right on last.fm as well. My last.fm profile is public, so you can go look me up there if you’re a user or you want to be.
- If you shark your groove, hit me up over on Grooveshark—I do a lot of my focused listening there, and I’ll probably also use their playlist-sharing feature here in this thread from time to time.
- If you rock the tweets, you can follow @WBBP (my listening feed) on twitter. It’s almost entirely auto-tweeted via RSS feed from last.fm. (If you’re looking for the warm fuzzy goodness of non-listening-related tweetage, hit up @bob_padgett instead.)
- If you’re not a real-time-listening-following-web-stalker-monger, and you’d just like to be there when I talk up a tune or share a playlist, well then, you’re in the right place. Just watch things here on the InMyEars™ tab at bobpadgett.com. And don’t be a wallflower—say something, react, like or dislike, analyze, give us a pithy Schenkerian reduction, anything. Let’s talk, people.
What do you say? Will you join me?
(Before I sign off, let me frontload the disclaimer, so I can skip it in the future: I am not necessarily “recommending”each song I reference (let alone listen to), but rather presenting them to you, encouraging you to join me in a conversation. There may be songs that captivate me musically and leave me wanting or even displeased with lyrics and/or programmatic content (or vice-versa). And it could be that, from time to time, the former delight will outweigh the latter resistance and I might very well share such a song from time to time. Each post will have a place for comments, and I’d love to hear what you think and experience as you listen, initially as well as over time.)
OK, enough chit chat. Get InMyEars™ already.
B
