A new genre to use in iTunes

Richardonica

Characterised by sexy, breathy female vocals, evocative lyrics of urban decay, and a penchant for synthesisers. Albums in this genre are often accompanied by a total lack of fear of sentimentality, odd instrumentation, and crazy, inappropriate guitar.
Allmusic “moods”:

• Theatrical
• Sophisticated
• Refined/Mannered
• Witty
• Ironic
• Bittersweet
• Detached
• Sweet

I think I might start moving towards personalised genres in iTunes — my pop, electronic, folk, alternative, and rock categories are largely useless, containing hundreds of items that thematically aren't similar at all. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: we need tags. Heather by Abraham — it's not “electronic” or “alternative” (heaven forbid — alternative to what?), it's sexy, evocative, enveloping, synthy, &c. Categorisation and retrieval are faceted, multidimensional things, and tags/categories absolutely must reflect the uses to which they will be put — finding, making playlists, and sharing.

Posted at 2005-03-14 08:44:44 by Richard • Link to A new genre to use…

New cl-ajax release

0.1.5. Thanks to a nice bug report from Steve Salkin I've written compatibility wrappers for function-name and arglist (OpenMCL spoils me). Things should now work on SBCL at the very least, and hopefully other Lisps too. This release also benefits from a few other changes which I've been rolling in as I work, so it's an all-round improvement.

ASDF package, signature, CLiki page.

Comments very welcome.

Posted at 2005-03-14 03:48:33 by Richard • Link to New cl-ajax releas…