A slightly disturbing google revelation

I recently upgraded my iTunes software to the latest version, which includes optional new user interfaces.  One of them (which I kinda like) groups the songs by album title and displays them with the album artwork.  It looks a little something like this:

That’s kinda nice, huh?  It looks retarded if you don’t have any images attached to the audio files though.

So, as previously mentioned, I pop into iTunes and try to decide what to listen to whilst I tinker with my module’s conversion code.  I decide to go with Emily Grogan because she plays in a band called Angeline who’s playing at the Lizard Lounge tonight and I’m going to miss them in favor of opening night for the Lowell Devils.

There are two Emily Grogan records that I know of.  iO and Falseometer.  I like ’em both.  I like ’em both a lot.  iO is pretty recent and I bought it from cdbaby (I think… mighta been amazon?).  Falseometer goes back a ways.  I don’t remember when I first heard that record, but I know I initially heard it online.  The whole thing was available for download from Emily’s website.  I also found a copy complete with artwork (it looked rather home made, and not long after the sticker on the disc peeled itself off.) at a used record store.  I want to say it was CD Spins on Newbury St. but I’m not 100% sure.

I couldn’t remember if I’d attached images to the mp3’s so I selected the iTunes display shown above.  There was a picture for iO, but not for Falseometer.  So off to google I go!

I entered “Emily Grogan” into google images and came up with a bunch of nice pictures of Emily, and a bunch of different sized copies of the iO cover art, but no Falseometer.  So I enter “Falseometer” and it comes back with nothing.  Seems like I’m out of luck.  Just as a last stab though I clicked on Google Web just to see what would come up.

Surprise!

The first site that returned was a familiar one.  It was familiar because it was my myspace blog entry from Tuesday February 28, 2006.  The day my car’s odometer hit 100,000 miles.

Hmmm, thinks me.  That was rather unexpected.  I wonder if google is the reason why my blog view counter keeps increasing at an ever increasing rate.  It used to be that with each new post I made I’d get a hit or two a day for a day or two and that was it.  Now I get 10-15 hits a day for two or three days and then one or two a day until I post something new.

That’s a tiny bit unsettling.  It makes me wanna stop swearing and be more faithful in my use of speling and gramar, checkars.  Maybe I’ll start writing this crap in Word first and then copy it into the myspace editor.  It also makes me want to put a link to anything I happen to mention in the text.  Did you notice the excessive number of links in this post?  If I’m going to plug something, the least I can do is save readers the trouble of doing a google search for more information… assuming anyone gives a rat’s ass… oh shit, another swear!  Oh shit, another one!  He said it again!

So, if you end up at my blog through google please remember that I know nothing of which I speak.  I’m just a blathering idiot talking out of my fat ass.

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