Yes, that's right, I'm sitting at home listening to my collection of 80s pop etcetera with less than an hour to go until the New Year. The perils of having a small bub who complains bitterly if you try and make him sleep on some random stranger's couch while you take vodka shots and smoke cigars in the backyard.

Not that I've tried that. Obviously.

So. Here I am. Happy New Year everyone!

I'm looking for something new. You know, that feeling where you here something randomly and just fall madly in love with the artist, listen to all their albums and then sigh happily.

The last time that happened was Jens Lekman, it's time for another one I think.

I've added so many loved tracks today. It's because I've been listening to the last radio system and now I've gone back to my own collection. It's nice to have not quite so much hit and miss in my ears :-)

Ok, I've started on my epic quest and it's beginning to sink in on me that this is going to take for fucking ever.

I have to go to bed now. I'm trying to listen to a couple more songs first.. So far I have listened to 32 songs. There are just so many more to go!! Something like, well, I don't really know but over 1000 anyways. I'm counting as heard when I hear enough of the song to know what I think of it. Meaning I don't have to listen to all of them.

37 songs.. what happened…

I have set myself a goal. There are currently 213 hours 54 minutes until voting closes in the 2006 Triple J - www.abc.net.au/triplej - Hottest 100. There are 21 pages of songs nominated by the radio station. I as going to try and listen to all of them before I vote.

Any help in finding the songs in a listenable form appreciated.

Here goes…

I have just bought my first CD based on what the website told me to do…wait…is that good or bad?

But seriously, I looked up Bolchoi over google after having them as a recommendation. The website is almost entirely in French, but my high school level comprehension got me through ok (with some thanks to Babel). They are (as far as I can tell) a punk/metalish band with Communist sympathies. You can listen to their entire album for free on the website, and instead of selling shirts it gives you the designs to print out to make your own.

The…

I scored a whole bunch of CDs last night, some I have to give back once I've listened to and some I can keep:

Give Back:

They Might Be Giants - No
Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Zoot Suit Riot
The Goons

Keep, keep!:

Audioslave - self titled
Breed77 - Cultura
Electric Six - Fire

I'm listening to Electric Six at the moment. They were fantastic live, and the album is good. Is it just me today, or are their tracks a little bit same-ish? It's probably just my mood. And, at the risk of being an outcast, I'm not really…

I haven't had much of an interesting year, live music wise.

In February, I went and saw Butterfly Effect supported by Junto, and same may say surpassed by Breed77, at the ANU Bar. This was the most fun I have had all year. Before this, the hardest band I had in my collection was Linkin Park, and to be honest I only went because my mates were going. As I said, most fun I have had all year. I had so many bruises! And I got to meet some of the guys from Junto and Breed, and…

I always used to skip this track on the JJJ Hottest 100 CD, I'm not sure why, I guess I thought it was a very different song. But just then I listened to the whole thing and it was so intrinsically energetic it made me happy. I wanted to do weird jig dance moves 'all the way to Bombay'. And I could relate a lot to the lyrics, I mean, who hasn't got drunk and done stupid things just to prove to ourselves that we're really having a blast when really we want to go hang our heads in a…