Music History

As I write, at this very second, I should be writing a mini paper for my music history class. The assignment involved listening to a broadcast of a particular type of music and then writing up a description and critique of the type of sound, tone, beat, pitch, etc. In other words, it's a bore fest. I just spent an entire hour listening to what I thought would be John Coltrane, but it turned out to be an on-air funds drive with a side of Coltrane instead. Who knew? This class has the potential to be interesting, it really does. I mean, it's music. Even in it's earliest forms, it wasn't as tedious as the past hour of my life was, listening to some quiet man and perky woman (quite the odd combo) pitch why everyone should call in with donations.

I literally spent the entire last class tallying up the amount of times the professor said the phrase, "questions and concerns" Are there any questions and concerns? I suppose we'll move on unless there are any question and concerns. Ten times, he said it. Ten times! The class is an hour and fifteen minutes! I think I'll buy him a thesaurus, so he can learn some new ways to ask that question. He's a really nice guy, just very, VERY awkward as a teacher.

Anyway, the point of this post is not to bitch about my ridiculously boring homework, but instead to inform you all about the coolest new addition to 'The Music Box." I added a new bar at the bottom called Streampad, which lets you play all the music that's been added to the site. If you want to put it on your page, you just type the html code into your blog "gadgets" section, and then make sure you have mp3 links on your page. If you don't have any links on the page, it won't play. I have a few songs on here now, but I'll be adding more as I can.

Honestly, I never thought I would be describing how to put in an html code, let alone have any idea what that is! I think this blog writing business is good for my technological side, or lack thereof. Don't get me wrong, I still hate computers with a fiery passion, but this is some pretty cool stuff.

New favorite site. You'll never want to leave. You can listen to online radio, entire cds, look at music news and a lot more.