I may like furry animals, but I aint no hippie

I got an email this morning from Garageband.com. It's this website where people submit their songs to get reviewed and to review other bands. There's a contest thing part too, but that's so not feasible that even a good band probably couldn't do that well.

Charlie, Aaron and I had submitted a couple songs back in the day and it took until now until the second song "crazy girl" got reviewed. I think it's because you need to listen to other people's songs to get them to listen to yours. It's been a very long time since I checked out the site, as the novelty only lasts so long, but it's fun to look at.

People tend to give you reviews that are either honest

a humor song that didn't work for me - technically the song is very well put together - nice vocals and ok guitar - but it reminds me of a children's song performed at the public library - cute but no cigar

or just not paying attention:

well done pro music at the top level could not ask for better

Anyways, the more interesting thing was that people actually did listen to the songs on purpose. There were a bunch of people who added the songs to the personal playlist things you can set up. And there were two "fan" mail letters. One from some guy Eric who played for some Ottawa band, the Shells, who wanted to be added to our mailing list. Sorry, Eric-- that list is still in production. And another from "gr8punkette" who obviously must not be that punk as she took the time to write that "crazy girl rocks!!!!!!"

Another surprise was that "crazy girl" was rated slightly higher than "ain't no hippie." Shocking.