premshree

Arnel Pineda's voice is fucking amazing, and definitely comes closest to Steve Perry's. Check this video, for example (my favorite Journey song).

74 "Infinity Radio"
25 "Ultra Hits Radio"
23 "Virgin Radio UK"
21 "Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb" 
10 "Pearl Jam - Last Kiss" 
 9 "Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's" 
 6 "The Who - Baba O'Riley" 
 6 "Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death" 
 5 "Pink Floyd - Wish you were here" 
 5 "Def Leppard - Hysteria"

(The numbers indicate the number of times a song was played.)

Previously: What’s Playing

I play all my music from iTunes now (most of it is on my FreeBSD box, though, served using mt-daapd). Anyway, time to update my current song script:

#!/opt/local/bin/ruby

require "rubygems"
require "net/ssh"
require "net/sftp"

script = <<SCRIPT
        tell application "iTunes"
                set {art, nm} to {artist of current track, name of current track}
                set disp to art & " - " & nm
                if disp is "" then
                        set disp to current stream title
                end if
                return disp
        end tell
SCRIPT

song = `osascript -ss -e '#{script}'`.chomp

exit if song == ""

`convert -fill black -pointsize 12 'label:#{song}' curr_song.png`

Net::SFTP.start("<host>", "<username>", "<password>") do |sftp|
        File.open("songs.txt", "a") { |f| f.write "#{song} (#{Time.now.to_s})\n" }
        ["songs.txt", "curr_song.png"].each { |file|
                sftp.put_file(file, "public_html/journal/#{file}")
        }       
end

Yeah, that’s a bit of AppleScript in there.

I’ve set it up to run every ten minutes. It also generates a list of all the songs I’ve played. I can probably use that data to figure not-so-useful patterns.

Didn’t sleep, not because I was writing code. I learned to play a Lobo song.

03:30. Ten friggin’ hours to reach Calicut. The private buses normally leave at 22:00, and I reach here by 05:30. I don’t know about their Volvos, but the regular not-so-long-distance bus journeys really suck. The driver and conductor were feeling hungry like every hour or such: they’d stop for grub every now and then.

Oh well, I couldn’t get a ticket in any of the other buses. I hope I get a ticket to get back Monday morning.

Did I ever tell you how big a fan of Opeth I am? They’re not one of those random foo bar metal bands or some such, unlike how their name might betray. Nor are they similar to many of the awesome Scandinavian bands. They’re on a league of their own. They’ve got this weird psychedelia you’d associate with Pink Floyd, and also this insane progressive music like Dream Theater. Yet, they’re like none of them, which is not weird. Sharat had sent me one of their live videos—Lamentations Live. For multiple reasons I got to see it only now. Bloody awesome stuff. Thanks a bunch, dude!

Now if you’d excuse me, I need to get back to more Opeth, and also find some grub.