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Yesterday I got an email from Tim Westergen, the Founder of Pandora.com. I am now mildly upset, because Pandora has started filtering by IP addresses so that people outside of the United States are unable to listen to their service. Previously, they filtered by asking your Zip Code (which I’m sure everyone outside of the US entered as “90210″), but they’ve beefed up their security, I guess. The letter goes as follows:

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Every mean thing I’ve ever wanted to say about Pachelbel’s Canon in D is said much better in this YouTube clip from Rob Paravonian.

The Video formerly found here, is still available from YouTube.

I would happily write more, but Paravonian says everything worth saying. Of note: I have made several of these jokes before but I was never able to string them all together like this guy.

it’s been a while since I’ve been able to write about music for a variety of reasons. First there’s the whole music player scandal, which is still bothering me quite a bit. There are no clear winners thus far, only clear losers. The only thing that’s keeping me going is Pandora, but it’s got a bit of a problem in that I can’t just select whatever song I’m jonesing to hear. So, once again, no music from my library. Problem the second: I’ve had the plague. It wasn’t too bad – sore throat, coughing, boils, rain of toads and the like – but I’ve been spending most of my time abed and not listening to music or thinking about writing. When I got back from being sick, my time was spent equally between catching up on 150 email messages and being excited about being able to go see (and open for) the Creepshow.

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