Star Power

So I've decided to start scoring the songs on my iPod with the prescribed rating system of 1 to 5 stars, but I had to really think about how I would do this so I wasn't just slapping everything with 5 stars and not dissing a perfectly good song with 1 or no stars, so I came up with the following system:

***** - The epitome of a perfect song. Not only do I love to listen to it, but this is the way songs (or music) should be written. The model marriage of words and music where no part is less important than another. These don't always make the charts. I also would not stop this song until it was over unless I had to.

**** - This one is worth listening to over and over. It's really good and exemplifies it's genre and artist very well. I can see a lot of number one singles falling into this section.

*** - This would be music that sounds good, it's worth keeping in the mix, and I like to hear it when it plays. It won't wow you when you hear it, but it won't make you sick either.

** - Clearly this is supposed to be a song, and it fits all (or most of) the qualifications of one, but I don't like it.

* - WTF?! Who let Sassy Pants on the piano?!

I currently have over 4700 songs on my iPod so rating them all will take quite a bit of time. I've take to ripping (and re-ripping) a lot of my CDs finally so I can have a better mix of the music I've been collecting all these years as opposed to the handful of stuff I had in 32kbps format. I've gotten a lot of stuff that I haven't heard in ages in a random mix. It's like a dream come true.

I'm one of those people who would actually have wanted a 200 CD changer some time ago just to load it with a ton of disc and randomize them to hear all the music in no order at all. This iPod holds a ton more than any 200 disc changer and allows you to delete out of the mix entirely stuff you don't like or don't want to play in this mix, not to mention a ton of other features you just couldn't get when I was rabidly collecting music some years ago.

The mix on my iPod is so eclectic, it would make some people's heads explode. Imagine zipping from classical to metal to middle of the road to easy listening to praise & worship to hard rock in that many songs. Ah, sweet bliss.

Last night was a good night, I thought. We did end up at Bueno, and this time, it went a lot better, but part of that was because we ate in instead of taking it home. This means they did screw up the order even though the receipt clearly stated what we wanted. I pointed out the errors immediately, and they fixed it. If we'd taken that home, we'd've been pissed...again. They really need to pay attention out there. But like I said, it still went all right because they were willing to make the necessary corrections without question.

I had intended to get Twilight Princess for the Wii from Blockbuster, but they don't even carry it, so I went with a game we'd played for an hour one night with some friends called Rabid Rabbids 2. This is probably one of the best party games ever. Not only is it extremely interactive, but it's a lot of fun just to watch what happens on screen with the various mini games you play with your friends. Naturally, before the Queen and I got into that game, we played co-op Guitar Hero...for an hour and a half.

But it was a lot of fun, and made for a nice round-up to the evening before settling into bed.

Finally, an amusing second-hand story from the tornadic activity that occurred a couple days ago. Someone in our office did have family that was hit by a tornado that hit so close, it bvlew out all the windows in the rear of their home as well as whicking away a couch and barbeque grill that was on their back porch.

Now here's the amusing part of this. Also on that back porch were a tricycle and piece of chalk that didn't move. Tornados are funny this way, but this tornado was clearly a lazy bastard of a storm. It wants to lounge around and grill, but doesn't want any part of exercising.