little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

here’s what i think of your musical batons

Memes are dumb, memes are stupid. I got the “musical baton” from Steph and Leonard, to basically talk about your MP3 collection. It’s been a while since I’ve forced my cheesy musical tastes on you, though, so I’m doing it anyway.

Total volume of music files on my computer

Compared to the digital music jukebox that is Leonard, my MP3 is actually pretty miniscule - only (!!) 3000 songs on my computer at roughly 13GB.

This also doesn’t account for the fact that my boyfriend is a club and radio DJ. It’s like dating an Amoeba Records store.

The last CD I bought was:

Not to be a corporate tool, seriously, but I’m testing out Yahoo! Music Unlimited product, so I expect to be listening to a lot more music I haven’t previously.

My last iTunes purchase was Quantic Soul Orchestra’s Pushin’ On. Highly recommended.

Song playing right now:

• Platinum Pied Pipers - 50 Ways to Leave Your Cover (f/ Rogier)
  • Damn, this Paul Simon cover is good.

Five songs I listen to a lot, or mean a lot to me

• Alice Russell - Taking Hold
  • Alice Russell is continuing the tradition of white British chicks belting out soulful tunes. Oh my GOD this song is so good.
• LCD Soundsystem - Movement
  • This is my “aggro” song. I’ve been listening to this a LOT lately.
• Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc (Single Edit)
  • You know, now that I think about it, I’ve been diversifying my musical tastes. I would have never listened to a bands like LCD Soundsystem or Gorillaz five years ago.
• Jamie Cullum - Next Year Baby
  • A simple song of broken aspirations and heartbreak. And it breaks out in a samba beat in the middle of the song!
• Esthero - Wikked Lil’ Girrls
  • The return of Esthero! Mike got me hooked on Esthero. Oh, who am I kidding, if it wasn’t for him I’d have Amy Grant on repeat. Shut up, Mike.

Pass the baton to five people:

With exception of the first person, I’m going to go with a theme: former winners or runners-up of my web games, that have weblogs that I still know the urls of:

• Mike. That one would be kind of obvious.
• Christine, runner-up to Big Blogger All-Star
• Jesse, male winner of BlindDateBlog
• Cheryll, female winner of BlindDateBlog
• Dave, runner-up to SurvivorBlog 2

Holy crap, BDB is still (sorta) available online?! Excuse me while I cry in a corner. And, yeah yeah… I’ll do your stupid meme… I’m on LJ now, so I guess it’s required.

Esthero is brilliant. I can’t wait for her new album (well . . . I guess I obviously can since I’ve been waiting 7 years already).

Yea, meme’s are retarded! Why isn’t there such thing as a ‘youyou’? Couldn’t find it in dictionary.com, so I guess it doesn’t exist.

damn girl, i can’t believe you din’t include anyone from SurvivorBlog 1!!!

Corporate Tool!

And where’s your sidebar link telling the gay blogging world that Kylie has breast cancer? You’ve lost your edge, Ernie.

Here’s to hoping that I get to participate by receiving the baton. At the very least, I’ll get to see what outlandish music I get listen to for inspiration. Or to confuse my parents.

Gorillaz, I get. I picked that up 5 yrs ago. Judging from our overlaps before, I looked into some of your other selections… but jezus that lite rock stuff is too much.

go SB2!

“Heaven Sent” still gives me chills. I’d give you shit about Jamie Cullum, but I listen to the Cocteau Twins so I have no room to judge.

Hi Ernie aka NAMESAKE! How are you? I’m the only Hsiung class person left! I emailed you a message to your sbc global account about an upcoming event, hopefully you can attend. I don’t know if that email addy still works. Let me know if you can make it! Hsiung Class!

does your internet icon status allow you to post a meme with no fear of repraisal? could you do the same with a dancing hamster? i’m curious how this works in tech circles.

I’ve downloaded two songs recently from iTunes, Jay-Z’s “99 Problems,” and “Lady Don’t Tek No” by Latyrx.

i think the last thing i was expecting for 2005 was a mention of sb2

This meme is perfect since Ernie and I have been trading music during the late night hours… good times and good music!

Oh and BlindDateBlog… I prefer to remember only the good things and there were many.

Ernie, you’re selling out to the machine! All your past posts have been plugging some yahoo product. Is the new product placement? Blog placement?

Try Snow Patrol “Final Straw” sounds like it’s right up your alley

OK, to Johns comment: HA. Trust me, it’s not on purpose - this is what happens when you work for long periods of time for an internet company, and you don’t have much left “ha ha” to write about. By-product of my surroundings, you could say.