After visiting Orion's McBlog and enjoying the experience of listening to music playing while reading the latest entry, I thought I would add music to my blog, too. I think you can kind of get an idea about a person by what music they listen to, plus the music can set the mood for the reading experience.

I don't think I will change my song every day...although I could automate that. I created a little Flash movie that you can see in the right nav bar - it is just a very simple MP3 player. Currently, it can only play one song that I hard-coded into it. But I will be expanding on it over time, adding XML functionality and maybe a desktop or web-based utility to make it easy for me to update the song. I also want to have it keep a history of songs that have played - and the dates they were posted - so you can scroll back and see what you missed. I don't have the disk space to retain all the song files, but at least I will include the title and artist. I will also add a display to the face of it to show information about the song that is currently playing.

The first (and current) song as of this posting, is "What I Am" by Edit Brickell.

I don't know if I will do the same with my Haphazard Musings blog, but if I had a song up there today, it would be Highway to the Danger Zone. Check it out.