Wow, that's a lot…

Well today, April the 2nd, I've hit 80,000+ plays on Last.FM! Just think, 20k more and I'll be at 100,000!

w00t! I'm 18 now. :)

Breaking Benjamin’s single, “The Diary of Jane,” appeared on iTunes this Tuesday. Although many of you may have heard this song already (perhaps on the band’s myspace), you now have the opportunity to purchase it from iTunes.

Next up, Metallica has (finally) been added to the iTunes Music Store’s catalog. This is obviously a major accomplishment, since Metallica has been known to sue online music distributors (and lose fans at the same time!). Regardless, Metallica is still considered one of the most influential bands in the genre of metal (speed metal, thrash metal, whatever you want to call it,…

I've been using this blog off and on for personal reasons, but I've decided to expand my writing somewhat and build a full-fledged web site out of it. The result is Slightly Amusing, my personal weblog on entertainment, food, industry, economics and more (yes, that includes music). So come on over, and check it out.

Also, for those of you (all ten… wait, no one reads any of this!) afraid that I'll never write in this AS journal again, fear not. All the music-related entries I post at Slightly Amusing will appear here at Last.FM.

On Tuesdays, iTunes is supposed to update the iTunes Music Store. Sometimes, like this week, that update doesn't come until Thursday (and I still haven't gotten the email reminder). I guess this means Apple is experiencing unparallelled success, but one can only hope!

Anyway, new music that's worth noting this week comes from Live and Dashboard Confessional. Live's new album sounds okay, but definitely the most poppy they've ever written. I'm not too crazy about the poppy sound, but the song "The River" isn't terrible anyway. On the confessional side of things, I really liked Vindicated, but their new…

Okay, I'm going to start using this journal now, more to document things for myself than to get any readership whatsoever. (I doubt I'll capture the attention of more than a few monkeys and a troll, but you never know.)

Basically the intended purpose for my starting to use this journal is for myself: to remind myself of music that's come out recently, to put thoughts/reviews of songs, artists, or bands, and to keep up with new and old bands alike, including news and other excess information. This first post is going to be mostly scattered miscellany, so here I…