There’s this service that lets you make a list of your milestones for your last.fm page, that is the tracks you listened to the 1st, 5000th, 10000th, etc. I never made a point to make a statement with these milestones so they are pretty random. I’m not going to use the list on my sidebar, nevertheless I find it amusing.

• 1st track: The Veronicas - 4Ever (12 Nov 2006)
• 5000th track: The Corrs - Runaway (19 Jan 2007)
• 10000th track: Blackmore’s Night - Waiting Just For You (02 Mar 2007)
• 15000th track: Machinae Supremacy - Fan Va Coolt (Men om Nånting) (12 May 2007)
• 20000th track: Touch and Go - Are You Talking About Me? (02 Aug 2007)
• 25000th track: Bright Eyes - Old Soul Song (For The New World) (07 Oct 2007)
• 30000th track: Michael Tolcher - Sooner Or Later (09 Nov 2007)
• 35000th track: Big Dismal - Missing You (09 Dec 2007)
• 40000th track: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Through The Morning, Through The Night (26 Jan 2008)
• 45000th track: Johnny Cash - The Long Black Veil (30 Mar 2008)
• 50000th track: Nine Inch Nails - Corona Radiata (21 May 2008)
• 55000th track: Kelly Clarkson - Maybe (08 Jul 2008)
• 60000th track: Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah (08 Oct 2008)
• 65000th track: Sirenia - Beyond Life’s Scenery (25 Jan 2009)
• 70000th track: Judas Priest - Dissident Aggressor (14 Apr 2009)
• 75000th track: Vienna Teng - Anna Rose (01 Jun 2009)
• 80000th track: Katie Melua - Mary Pickford (09 Jul 2009)
• 85000th track: Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Parts VI-IX (22 Aug 2009)
• 90000th track: Nine Inch Nails - Just Like You Imagined (16 Dec 2009)
• 95000th track: Thea Gilmore - Heart String Blues (21 Feb 2010)
• 100000th track: The Gathering - Capital of Nowhere (28 Apr 2010)
• 105000th track: Lena - My Same (08 Jul 2010)

Did I mention I’m a sucker for statistics and data?

The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends,including me, because I’m interested in seeing what albums my friends choose. Todo this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, paste rules in a new note, cast your fifteen picks, and tag people in the note.

My list is as follows. These albums have been an important part of my life at one point or another. Not the ones I listened to the most, but certainly a lot. Not necessarily a good representation of what music I like either, but I do or did love these. I’m too lazy to link them all to last.fm.

Epica – The Divine Conspiracy
The Gathering – How To Measure A Planet
The Gathering – Black Light District
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Ilan Eshkeri – Stardust
The Corrs – Talk On Corners
Evanescence – Fallen
Nightwish – From Wishes To Eternity
Muse – The Resistance
Smash Mouth – Smash Mouth
Hans Zimmer – Gladiator
Green Day – American Idiot
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
The Offspring – Americana

Funnily enough my last.fm stats do look quite a bit different.

I’m not poking anyone either. If you like the idea (meme), make your own and drop a trackback / comment. (It would be interesting to see Isolde’s or Vale’s list though.) Out of the people I know, Via, Kelt and Kazal shared theirs.

This is also a bit of a spoiler if you haven’t read Audrey Niffenegger’s A Time Traveler’s Wife, so consider yourself warned.

There’s the bit where Henry explains his crimes during his episodes:

“So in order to cope, I pick locks, shoplift, pick pockets, mug people, panhandle, break and enter, steal cars, lie, fold, spindle, and mutilate. You name it, I’ve done it.”

Everything else we know except what fold and spindle mean as crimes. They either have some obscure slang meaning obviously missing from dictionaries or are maybe synonyms for stretching the truth?

Any ideas?

(If you have the Hungarian translation, what does it say? Book I, Chapter Eat or Be Eaten)

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“I should have been posting it here all along. Had I been doing so I’d have something to show for it. A record of my life for the last few years at the very least. But I ignored my blog and ran off with the sexy, shiny microblogs.”

Leo Laporte

Probably I was the only person going to the festival alone.

I spent the morning climbing the local hill (512 m) called Kopasz-hegy. I must have lost about 3 kilograms in liquid but the view compensated for the effort.

The first band I saw was Magashegyi Underground, previously unknown to me.

Barabás Lőrinc Eklektric followed, also not something I usually listen to, nevertheless enjoyable.

Péterfy Bori struck me a bit older than I thought, and I still just can’t stand leggings stopping just below the knee.

I moved to the Jim Beam tent well before Epica. (One must secure a first row position in time.) Ossian was playing.

Next came Depresszió. I like some of their songs but to be honest this time I couldn’t wait for them to leave and let Epica commence.

The devil never sleeps, so they say: it was obvious that something went wrong when roadies wearing a permanent frown scurried back and forth on the stage angrily. It was on the organisers, I could read the lips of the guards saying it’s our tech. Tension mounted, some got restless and started shouting, even throwing stuff on the stage. Only after about an hour could a relieved roar signal that microphones finally started working.

What happened next I can only describe as giving a lesson in artistry, attitude and musicianship.

I’m sure many so-called stars would have thrown a hissy fit. Instead, when Epica took the stage Simone apologised for the delay (of no fault of their own) and promised us many songs in compensation.

They practically figuratively destroyed the tent.

We got extra songs, Mark playing in the gap between the stage and the audience, water bottles thrown at us, a drum solo lit by the stroboscopes… every stunt possible considering the space and tech at hand.

I have no idea how Mark had any voice left afterwards and of course Simone is still absolutely stunningly gorgeous.

Cry for the Moon taken from the first row: