A few weeks ago Tyler sent me a message on Twitter telling me about Blip.fm. I signed up, thinking it would be a great way to listen to music where ever I might be. I enjoyed it for a few days, but got quickly tired of having to search and make playlists–I just wanted to hear music (pandora has spoiled me).

One day I strung a few songs together that were loosely connected. I hollered over at Jon and asked him if he could see the connections between the songs. He was able to see the first two, but the third was too complicated for anyone but me to understand–too many hidden steps. He got excited though, wondering how he could play the connection game with me. So he became one of my listeners and we blipped songs back and forth at each other trying to keep some sort of through-line in each song. Our connections ranged from titles to this song was in this movie with this actor who was in this movie with this song. It got a little complicated. We were having a blast, so I emailed Brian, Ted, and Tyler inviting them to join us in our connections game.

Brian, Jon and I have been going for a week+ now. Ted chimes in occasionally, but he doesn’t have a sit at your desk and kill time by blipping sort of job (i think) so it’s usually the three of us. It’s silly and fun and entertaining. Some highlights of our blipping have been Ryan Adams to Mandy Moore. What you ask? how? They’re married. I know. Weird. We did the days of the week. Then we stumbled onto the months of the year, backwards. We had a Ryan Adams block today. We had a covers session yesterday. That was especially fun. I love covers. I did a whole string of songs that had copyright issues today–I stole them from a blog post, but I attributed it.

I’m really enjoying it. Jon and I have a little competition going to see who can get the most listeners and props. Oh, yeah. Props are what you give out to people whose songs choices you like. Since all blips go on the main blip stream, anyone can give you props. Fleet Foxes got me four props immediately. A lot of my classic rock today got me props. Jon is beating me in listeners, but I pulled ahead in props.

If you want to join in, join blip and let me know your djname, I’ll start listening to you, and then you can add Jon and Brian if you like. Ted and I were trying to come up with a catchy name. He came up with a bunch. My favorite was Tune Tag.

I did a whole string myself tonight because I can’t sleep. The last five:

Broken Social Scene – Lover’s Spit

Snow Patrol – Spitting Games

Bob Dylan – Only a Pawn in Their Game

Traveling Wilburys – Handle with Care

Tom Petty – Free Fallin’

Lynryd Skynyrd – Free Bird

My profile has just my blips, so it doesn’t fill in all the gaps, but you can get an idea of what it’s like…

(the annoying things are that sometimes they songs are just previews–30 seconds, arg! and sometimes the songs are streaming off a slow website so they are a little choppy.)