bitful

Un paio di tappi per le orecchie, per favore
A pair of ear plugs, please
Literally: 'A pair of corks/stoppers/plugs for the ears, for favour'.
There used to be a time when I was counting how many sleeps until the Eurovision Song Contest.
My interest has been fading ever since when I went to to see the live show [...]

This graph shows all the music I have listened to in the past six months in a pretty visualisation.
Click on the picture to view it at Flickr, then click on 'All Sizes' and select the original picture for maximum detail.
From lastgraph via plasticbag.

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There's this song I've been humming to musically well-read (or should that be 'well-listened'?) friends for a while now, to see if they could help me put a title and performer on it, and to tell me where I might possibly know it from.
Either I'm bad at humming, or my friends are a bit crap, [...]

Amazon.co.uk have just sent me this email:
Dear Amazon.co.uk Customer,
As you've recently bought or browsed dance or electronica CDs, we thought we'd let you know about our new releases and bargains. Visit our music store to find out more.

And this is how I found out that both Cross (Justice) and Attack Decay Sustain Release (Simian [...]

I have mentioned a while back that my taste in music has recently shifted towards a harder sound and darker beats.
After three or four months where I trampled all over my candyfloss pop past and listened day and night to screeching and wailing exclusively, things are a bit more moderate now. Just as well, as [...]

After what has been known as 'The Mika Incident' (I wowed the album for all of three days, then grew so tired of its repetitive songs and Scissor Sisters rip-off that even a fleeting glimpse of Mr Penniman's bouncy curls made me jump with all my weight on the 'Skip' button), I swore that I [...]

My 2p on the Eurovision Song Contest, for decades cherished as a solitary guilty pleasure, for a bit enjoyed with like-minded lovers of all things camp, and this year forcing myself to listen to all forty-two dreary songs and watch it for old times' sake.
I feel very sorry for Malta. They want to win so [...]

From the ages of 7 to 17 I proudly was the one and only Italian following the Eurovision Song Contest. When I say 'proudly' I mean instead 'scared gutless worrying that there must be something wrong with me.
Italy stopped broadcasting the live show long before stopping taking part, but I kept watching it on Slovenian [...]

The purchase of an iPod nano (three days before the announcement that the hundredth million iPod had been sold - yes, that was me) changed somehow my Last.fm profile, so much so that it prompted David to exhult
PopBitful is Back! Back! Back!
when he saw the string of madonnabritneygwengirlsaloud in my 'recently played' list a few [...]

Yesterday I wore a shirt to work.
It had short sleeves, and it was unbuttoned so I would not feel constricted, and of course, the sleeves were wrinkled, the collar was curling up, and the yoke looked like an ox had slept in it, because to me, you know, an iron is just that annoying thing [...]

I used to be an average gay man, with average gay man musical tastes, i.e. I used to swear by the Madonna-Kylie-Eurovision Holy Trinity as the pinnacle of musical achievement.
I mean, people, I went to three gigs during the last twelve months: Kylie in January, Madonna last July… and The Eurovision Song Contest Live All [...]

Week after week, my musical taste is subjected to harsh criticism by Dr B.'s delicate aural sense, and I always find it disconcerting.
I played Mika. I was told to switch that annoying falsetto off. During my early and short-lived infatuation with Life In Cartoon Motion, I was outraged. In the long run, I cannot but [...]