According to the log for my stream, as of 10:22 PM last night, KMAG played its 600,000th song!
That one snuck up on me because I thought I had more time when I updated the stream for its new Top 30 songs last week. According to the past tally, it was somewhere in the 598,000 neighborhood. I wouldn’t have been able to catch it or check around that time because I probably was already falling asleep while watching episodes of Catscratch or Jimmy Neutron saved on the DVR. There were still good songs sprinkled in it, over 400 more than when it hit half a million; current releases from Brian Setzer, Sloan, Killers, Nellie McKay and something from the musical Duncan Sheik co-wrote. The first couple months of the year are always slim pickings for new music since the labels hold back most of the major players until April.
And now, what was song number 600,000? Drum roll please…
“Chicks Dig Jerks” by Bill Hicks from his comedy album Relentless.
How fitting I think that the stream chose another witty, funny Texan who died too soon (1994) in honor of Molly Ivins. Then again, I think it’s more of my brain putting the connections together, it’s just not as clever as Dark Side of the Rainbow. I think Bill and Molly would agree on many topics, they just would differ on the delivery of their humor.
On to one million songs played. How much longer will that take? According to my crudest calculations, it took roughly 274 days to complete 100,000 from the last milestone I reported (May 6, 2006). Should it continue at this pace, three years, give or take a month. By then I hope to have closer to 10,000 songs in the stream to randomize. It requires a hefty sized drive [160 GB+] on a nice Intel-based MacMini or iMac and most importantly, it’s hooked up to something faster than my ADSL so my friends can enjoy it.