Contrast Podcast Goes All Random Again

     It was such an exciting episode of the contrast podcast the first time Tim did it, he's doing it again. What's that? The "random/shuffle" theme, that's what. Go here to see what popped up on everyone's music player of choice.

     I recorded my intro as it happened, which was kind of scary, because even though my ipod is only a Nano, who knows what crazy song could have come up. I got lucky, however, as it was a Moonbabies song. Thank god.

     It got me to thinking about another random thing, actually. A couple of days ago, my friend Fil left a comment on a post wherein I'd mentioned The Spinto Band. He said he didn't care too much for their music and in fact recently when they were playing at a festival he was at, he'd left a set of theirs early. On the way out, he ran into Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit, whom he'd met previously at a gig in Seattle, so they chatted for a while.

     Well, the random thing is, I've talked to Scott after a gig, so has JC, Tart, Agnes and Colin, and all of us "know" each other through the contrast podcast--and now we've all met Scott. How else on earth, I ask you, would he have met the six of us if not for the cp? We are just six disparate souls floating around the globe and yet we're all connected by this invisible thread that runs through the internets. I think it's really cool. Cosmically cool! Just thinking about it makes me happy and smile, which just happens to be the title of my randomly generated song for the podcast.

Moonbabies--"Happy When Smile" mp3 off We're Layabouts (buy--I think this is out of print, sorry)

p.s. I just found out that Moonbabies will be playing at least two shows at the upcoming CMJ festival in New York City. They'll be at Norwood Club on Oct. 22nd and Crash Mansion on Oct. 23rd. More shows to be announced. God, I wish I lived closer to town.

tags: contrast podcast  moonbabies  random acts of friendship  

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