Just stumbled upon Last.fm - a kind of social networking site based on music. Its pretty cool..you can download a plugin that "listens" to whatever music you're currently playing and sends the details to the Last.fm site. They call this "scrobbling" for some bizare reason, but its pretty neat. In this way the site builds up a true picture of what music you like to listen to and can suggest other recomended artists. There are also discussion groups and obviously you can build up a "friends" list by searching for people with similar tastes as yourself. All pretty groovy. I've looked into some other networking sites before and couldn't really be bothered to fill out all my likes, dislikes, rants and raves etc in order to find some comonality with other folks. But as this will sit there in the background doing all the hard work, this might just work out nicely.
You can see my profile here http://www.last.fm/user/aragornsbeard/. You'll see there that I have been listening to Damien Rice's new album "9". Its another work of genius from the man, full of the same kind of beautiful, heart-renchingly wonderful songs as his previous album "O". I love it and you will too.
I'm going to Guildford this afternoon...what a strange cathedral they have there....
