brainstorms

Sunday April 02, 2006

random 10 [meme]

this random 10 courtesy of a python script to parse through my itunes library xml, and random's sample(population, k) function. guts of the script:

... lib = minidom.parse(args[0]) topdicts = lib.getElementsByTagName("dict") songlist = topdicts[1].getElementsByTagName("dict") samplelist = sample(songlist, 10); for song in samplelist: ... pull out name, artist, album etc ... format into a table

Rouge	Miles Davis [The Complete Birth Of The Cool]
From The Heart	Johnny Adams [Jockomo Jockomo - The Sound Of New Orleans R&B]
The Lovely Sweet Banks Of The Moy	The Chieftains [Water From The Well]
Queremos Paz	Gotan Project [La Revancha Del Tango]
Thanks A Lot	Johnny Cash [The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983]
Fishin' Blues	Taj Mahal [The Best Of Taj Mahal]
Eh, Petite Fille	Clifton Chenier [Alligator Stomp - Cajun Zydeco Classics]
O Fortuna	Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Riccardo Chailly [Carmina Burana]
N'est-ce plus ma main	Roberto Alanga And Angela Gheorghiu [Duets and Arias]
Monochrome	Yann Tiersen [Le Phare]