giver of all

today i finally registered with the music genome project known as pandora. it was orgasmic, let me tell ya. it truly is the giver of all. skeet skeet. i wish i had been using/listening to music on this a loooong time ago.

the music selection is based on personal preference to certain attributes or "genes," as they call it, of music. i mean this is all so ingenious and whatever, but seriously, who doesn't like anything that's tailored! how obvious. it finds and plays songs that it thinks i will enjoy. i can either accept and sit back and continue to listen or veto it with a thumbs down. not all that different from my tivo. stations can also be created based on one song that you enjoy. and then you can just hit play and that "station" will spew out songs of the same "gene."

so here are my thoughts on this crazy intuitive music player:
1. i want "pandora" to be personified. i want pandora to be brandon flowers or that guy i crush on that walks past me on battery street weekly. i want a face to the thing that plays music at me that i already know i will probably enjoy. it would be like him and i are exchanging music, like how you would do with a good friend or what you would do on a date with a new and attractive person you're trying to get to know without asking too many questions while you secretly try not to judge them. so maybe generate a code where i can upload a fantastic picture of someone super attractive and their face will always be there, smiling at me, while i'm rocking out to our sweet jams?

2. i need more variety, pandora. i need you to send me new and different music. broaden my horizons. music that i wouldn't normally listen to on my own. don't just give me different songs from another album from the same artist. that gets old. and you're just being lazy.

3. i need you to be a forward-thinker. give me a single from an album that's about to drop in 3 weeks - that has the same "genes" as music that i've thumbs-upped.

4. please widen the rotation. i don't want to hear the same artist every other song or every third song. you've been doing this to me all day, and it's just getting stale.


now, since i'm new to pandora, i could very well already have these options. if you happen to be a pandora user and know something that i clearly don't, please fill me in, as craig david would say. thank you.