May 21st, 2005

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Of iTunes Shuffle and IMDb

A few random tales of shuffling iTunes:
  1. Late one evening, a couple of weeks back, iTunes randomly played Paul McCartney's Another Day. Unfortunately, this triggered the part of my mind which goes "Ooh. I've heard that in a movie recently..." This sort of thing is always fatal as I of course want to know what that movie was, and I ain't gonna get to sleep until I've got the answer or managed to forget about the question. Thankfully, IMDb* came to the rescue - a bit of poking turned up the soundtrack search page which quickly gave me the answer: 50 First Dates.
  2. I recently watched Charlie's Angels, and remember thinking that I should look up what one of the songs played over the end credits was. This morning, iTunes popped up All the Small Things by Blink 182, and once again I knew it was from a movie I'd seen recently, so I headed over to IMDb, thinking that I could check the Charlie's Angels soundtrack while I was there. Of course, the two questions proved to be each others' answers...
  3. Later on, iTunes brought be part of the soundtrack from the final episode of Babylon 5 and I ended up turning off the shuffle feature to hear the final track as well. Those of you familiar with the show will know that the final episode is more of an epilogue than a finale, and that it appears to be deliberately written to reduce fans to gibbering wrecks - and just the music by itself can do that. Powerful stuff. Randomly, it seems that JMS has some B5 stuff up for auction on eBay - including the dalies and two director's cuts of Sleeping in Light. *WANTS SO MUCH*
* If you're not familiar with IMDb, then why not? It's easily one of the most useful sites on the 'net, with pretty much every bit of information about seemingly every movie ever made (and plenty of TV shows and some video games). Many a time and oft has it saved my sleep or sanity.