Wed 9th - 2

Here's an interesting idea:

New Muxtape project! Songs from every year I've been alive.
- Austin Kleon (who has just landed a HarperCollins book deal for his newspaper blackout poems)

I might try to do my own project somehow, maybe here in blog posts. It's a really timely idea: in the last few days I've been hyper-nostalgic about music after realising I could use YouTube and DownloadHelper + Applian FLV Player to collect old songs for free. This probably seems like a clunky way to find music but I still have a dial-up connection, so can't use sites such as Last.FM or Muxtape. And the sound quality isn't important. I don't have a portable music thingie-whatsit, so only ever listen while at the computer, using the computer's kinda crappy speaker; music sounds about as good coming from a video as it does from an audio track.

Classic old songs-on-video collected so far include The Beatles' "Let it be" and Jackson Browne's "The load out / Stay".