Pornography For Your Ears

I use CDDB. I am progressively educating iTunes on the vast, vast, vastness of variety that is my CD collection. This is a slow process, however I fully intend to have all my CDs catalogued by the Second Coming of Christ. Or maybe the weekend after that.

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra recently released a promotional CD to it's subscribers. Copies were also sent to media outlets, etc for promotional purposes. Unknowingly, unwittingly (at least the filthy bastards of the NZSO claim ^_^) the song titles all went raunchy. It seems that for a short while, this CD conjured forth lurid descriptions of the "mummy and daddy" thing from CDDB, rather than the titles of the actual works recorded. Can you imagine some 53 year old woman playing the CD on her iMac and thinking to her self, "My word. This 'Fellating Leather Clad Dog Boys in A Minor' sounds remarkably like Elgar's 'Pomp and Circumstance'. I just don't understand this new music."

Apparently there's a bit of an outcry over this and the article quotes suggestions that malicious hackers could be at fault. Yes. Malicious hackers armed with a copy of MusicMatch Jukebox and the letters section from Penthouse. Lock up your credit cards and take your photo off your website : they could hack into your computer and rename all your mp3s as filthy sex acts!!!

The piece of interesting news I've stumbled across involves book publishing. No, not the long awaited 5th Harry Potter book. It's the new compact edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which now includes phrases from idiotic American sitcoms. Yay. Apparently all you need to qualify as a "new" word is to be used 5 times over 5 years in the media. Does that mean in 3 years time "Dubya" will be in the book?

Once again thanks to the yanks.

Don't think I'm anti-American. I'm just anti-Americanisms. Once you take away all the cultural arrogance that many (that's many, not al!!!) display they're really nice.

So no flaming, please. If it makes you feel better, count yourself as a culturally aware American who does actually know about the world beyond the two coasts.

One other thing. Check out Gang-Warz. It rocks. I have my friends onto it and it's soo addictive. Ohhhh yeah. Mmmmhmmm.

And my cat is off a respirator, is moving around and taking food and water. Good news.