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December listenings


I don't know how AI music is a problem if I'm going and looking for specific albums when I go to Spotify. 


12/1/2025 A Flat, G Flat and C 1966 Yusef Lateef YouTube

I was looking for a jazz album where the theremin is played, and this one does, not in the first songs though, so listen further in.

12/2 Kuni Mikami 2018 Keep On Swinging spotify

I looked him up because he's playing at Mezzrow the night I looked it up, not in December. I do these in advance.

12/3 Kuni Mikami 2023 Happy Birthday YouTube

12/4 Barry Harris 1957 If I Live Again spotify

He was Kuni Mikami's teacher for 10 years.

12/5 Barry Harris 1960 At The Jazz Workshop (Live) spotify

12/6 Cynthia Erivo 2025 I forgive you spotify

12/7 Ariana Grande 2025 Brighter Days Ahead spotify

12/8 Wicked spotify

12/9 Wicked: For Good spotify

12/10 Wicked Original Broadway Cast spotify

12/11 The Stare (2024) by Consider the Source spotify

12/12 Thundercat: It Is What It Is (2020) spotify

12/13 The Yussef Dayes Experience - Live From Malibu YouTube

12/14 Scott Kinsey - We Speak Luniwaz (2019) spotify

12/15 Josh Meader Tides of Time 2025 spotify

12/16 The Circling Sun: Orbits 2025 spotify

12/17 BBC Big Band Orchestra 2008 The Age Of Swing spotify

12/18 BBC Big Band Orchestra 2013 Big Band Playlist of the 40's Hoopla

Hoopla is a benefit of libraries, and my library in particular in Queens NYC.

12/19 Jesse Fuller 1963 San Francisco Blues spotify 

12/20 Olivia Rodrigo 2024 Guts (spilled) spotify

My daughter loves Taylor Swift, and I showed her Kimmel taking his kids to school, and they pick up Olivia Rodrigo on the ride, and it's a really cute video. My daughter asked to leave, and I find Olivia's 2023 Tiny Desk concert on YouTube and watch alone. She's a similar confessional singer, she reminds me of Joni Mitchell with her big teeth and long straight hair, confessional lyrics, though they're both very different too. She's a little more sexualized, teeth bleached, and pop, and probably less sexual than Joni was. Joni fucked around, worked her way through Crosby Stills Nash and Young. She got married at one point. I don't know her whole story. Would love to read a biography. 

I got 3 months of Spotify free, and now they offer 2 months free. 

I don't experience AI songs, I'm always looking up specific artists, I don't ever say, just play me stuff you think I'll like. If you do that and feel victimized by AI songs, then I guess I would be upset, but I look up specific artists and only play my playlists. I sometimes play others playlists, like there's one of unpopular artists, and maybe there's some AI in there. I wouldn't feel victimized if I accidentally listened to one and didn't notice.

I think they should be labeled at least on the screen. That's something I would do, to help ease people feelings that stuff is snuck up on them with AI in it. I've read a lot of science fiction, and I'm not buying the hysteria, and I've seen a lot of people who a super excited and hype up AI, and I think those people are weird too. I've got a wait and see attitude. Government is slow, half the people there worry about governmental overreach, like you can't correct midway, their slowness is why they don't like government, but I think government should be quick and responsive and just pass a law that you have to label AI generated writing and music and other things. I haven't used AI where it wasn't labeled in my blogs. I've tested it out a few times. I've seen some mistakes in AI, it's not perfect, it's only as good as it's sources. I'm using it more and more these days. Of course when it gets good they'll charge for it, and further enshitifications. 

I used a word processor to function in college, and that's AI. I use the Google AI which I asked it's name today and supposedly it's Gemini, because it's a combination of two AI. I love the movie Ghost In The Shell (1995) which ends that way. I love The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, which has an AI character. AI is here to stay, but it's OK to be wary of it, concerned the tool will be used wrong, like all tools eventually are, at some point.

I am concerned with how big and exploitative, and chincy with artists Spotify has become and I'm monitoring the corporation. I have worked hard to add in other sources in my listenings, but I have just appreciated the accessibility, the catalogue. 


12/21 Teddy Swims 2025 I've Tried Everything But Therapy... spotify

12/22 Marvin Gaye 1971 What's Going On spotify

12/23 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Deluxe Edition 2023) Vince Guaraldi Trio spotify

12/24 Jazzy Christmas playlist

12/25 Rachael and Vilray 2025 West of Broadway spotify

12/26 Bjork 1990 Gling-Glo spotify

12/27 Jillian Welsh 2011 The Harrow and the Harvest spotify

12/28 Punkbop 2025 Ari Hoenig spotify

12/29 Keaton Henson 2024 sonolument cycles spotify

12/30 Jellyfish 1990 Bellybutton spotify

12/31 Dream Theater 2025 Quarantieme: Live In Paris spotify

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