It’s almost the end of the year, so here’s what I’m listening to via podcast. (Audio or sometimes video programs downloaded directly and automagically onto your computer for later listening or viewing.) If you’re a new iPod owner, consider this a decent starting place for stuff to listen to yourself, assuming you and I have identical tastes. (And why wouldn’t you?)
All of these can be found in the iTunes podcast directory and most of them can be found via the magic of Google.
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Grammar Girl has just released her annual list. I confess the number one peeve is a new one on me, but I’ve seen similar uses, and they’re plenty horrifying.
5. Carelessness
4. “Myself”
3. “Tap”
2. “Baby Bump”
1. “Slay”
She misses that “tap” is also slang for “to have sex with,” which makes a lot of those political headlines very amusing when you’re tired and punchy.
I love the From the Pages of the Washington Post podcast — and missed it when it was on an unexplained months-long hiatus that ended recently — but the staffer who reads most of the stories has been making me nuts, by pronouncing “anonymity” like “anonymous” with an “itty” grafted on as the last paragraph.
This is not an acceptable or variant pronunciation. I think the answer here is clear: The Post needs to hire me to read their daily podcasts.
I expect you all to e-mail Publisher Katharine Weymouth demanding I be hired. Ms. Weymouth, I await your telephone call.
One of the songs I listened to most this year. I have friends who refuse to listen to anything that sounds remotely like rap, and I think they’re missing out, as it’s going to be part of the musical landscape from now on, and it’ll inform lots of artists in the same way as country music informs artists that people might otherwise think of as rock and roll acts.
Atmosphere (Rap) |MTV Music
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I don’t think of Rilo Kiley as my favorite band, but given that songs by RK, [lead singer] Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins and Jenny Lewis by herself keep showing up in my 100-most-listened-to tracks on the iPod/iPhone every year, I guess they must be.
Here’s the first single of theirs that made me love the band, from the all-you-can-eat buffet that is MTV Music:
Rilo Kiley |MTV Music
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