Experimentation

I'm not sure if I like having the music over there.

It isn't playing yet, unless you felt the urge. If you never do, no worries. I just used a site called Playlist Project, which has a decent search engine for songs and a hedonistic capacity of 75 songs per playlist. I'm sure there's better, but I wouldn't know, being a bit html-retarded and proud enough to be able to implement any music on my own to begin with.

I could have been much more shameless with the music, and you know it. Notice I didn't set the playlist to "Auto Start", and then hide the coveted Pause Button at the very bottom of the page, forcing visitors to slog through a cacophony of embedded YouTube videos while being sonically flagellated by T-Pain's "Buy U a Drank." That option's still on the table, though; we'll see who really wants to read my stuff.

Dicking with the playlist, I was visited by a familiar feeling, one I had in high school, when I would roll down the windows of my Cavalier and "share" my music with the community through 10" subs. I don't know whether I believed myself to be educating bystanders with the fine art of Chemical Brothers, or perhaps seeking to inspire admiration among like-minded musicphiles.

But one thing is for certain. It wasn't just so I could hear my music.

Whether people will admit it or not, posting music on personal web pages tends to be an exercise in self-indulgence. I realized this just after embedding the songs, and now I'm uncomfortably aware of their impracticality.

Honestly, why wouldn't you be listening to your own tunes as you read this? That's what you would ideally hear, right? Or do you actually seek to be "educated" with new music from somebody's page? Because there are really only two realistic uses of this whole profile soundtrack practice: if not to just to say "I dig this music and I think it goes well with this page," we also make the statement, "you need to hear this shit, bitches."

I think if any of my tracks over there gets both jobs done, it's Richard Cheese.