Music things I am enjoying lately:

Whiskeytown's Stranger's Almanac. I know it's eleven years old, but if I could only take five albums to a desert island, I think this would be one of them. I'll own up to being a total alt-country fan (like it's not already obvious). Also, I should really buy Heartbreaker one of these days. I have other Ryan Adams albums, but somehow not that one.

iTunes 8.0's Genius playlist feature. Maybe it just works well for me because most of what's in my iTunes is in two distinct veins, "things that are kind of Wilco-y" or "things Pete Wentz sells to emo kids" (and the slight offshoot of "bands that play shows with Empires"), so almost everything from one group or the other seems to go together. But everything it put together last night seemed to work pretty well.

Things that I wish worked together:

Last.FM, FineTune and Pandora. If Last.Fm could track what I play on FineTune and Pandora, I would be really happy, since I have this obsessive need to count everything I play.

Food things I am enjoying lately:

Vegetarian chili from Beans & Barley. Spicy but not overwhelming and tastes just like I remember chili tasting when I still ate meat. I need to figure out their recipe, or at least a reasonable facsimile.


What are you enjoying lately?