Of Music and Movies
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As any self professing geek can admit, I spend a lot of time at my computer (much to my wife's chagrin). Whether it's of the 9 to 5 variety or the late night hours feeding my brain with the latest and greatest in .NET Land. I'm one of those types of people who just can't stand sitting in silence. I've always needed some background noise to keep my sanity. 95% of the time, my noise of choice is listening to music streaming off of Rhapsody. I really enjoy my Rhapsody subscription in that it allows me to stream as much music as I want, for as long as I want, for a mere $24.95 every 3 months (or $9.95/mo). Sometimes I bounce around to all sorts of musical genre's ranging from Bluegrass to Folk to Alternative to Punk to New Age to Classical. My musical tastes are all over the board. I've never been that up on Heavy Metal or Rap but I can appreciate a few songs here and there.
Rhapsody gives me the ability to find artists that I normally wouldn't have run across. I'm really hooked on a band that I came across a couple of weeks ago called 'The Secret Machines'. I think I've listened to there latest album "Now Here Is Nowhere" about 30 times. As you can tell, I really dig it and it's nice background noise to work to. As it turns out, The Secret Machines recently had an appearance on MTV2's $2 Bill with The Killers - another group that I happened across on Rhapsody and what can I say, they're Killer. Anyhow, there's a few video clips of these 2 bands from their $2 Bill concert up on MTV2, check them out.
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