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The following animals are currently available for adoption at Animal Service Center of the Mesilla Valley, 3551 Bataan Memorial.
Caboose is a super cuddly and loving 3-year-old Chihuahua mix. He may be an adult, but he has an eternal puppy face which makes him that much cuter! He loves getting treats and will beg for them with just a look from those brown eyes.
Darlene is a sweet-faced and gentle-natured 5-year-old pit bull/shepherd mix. This precious girl has been at the shelter for nearly 8 months now and is more than ready to have a permanent home to call her own. Are you that home?
Tundra is an enthusiastic 4-year-old Lab/shepherd mix. She loves going out on walks and is great on a leash. She learns fast and will make a great companion for hiking, running, biking or just good old canine company.
Ozu is a charismatic and super cute domestic shorthair. His handsome grey coat is shimmery and soft to pet. He loves people and is always up front and in your face asking for love and affection. Come out and meet him today!
Polly is a pretty, almost 2-year-old dilute calico. She is people- and animal-friendly. She is also super playful and likes to be held. She would like nothing more than to be a part of a forever family. Come and make her part of yours!
Spumoni is a lovely blue-eyed lynx point Siamese mix. She is regal in appearance, but down to earth in personality. She will look at you with her slightly crossed eyes and your heart will just melt. She needs a great home!


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While I was Assistant to the President at Davidson College during the 1978-79 school year, one of my jobs was working with the Trustees. Dean Rusk, the former Secretary of State, was a Davidson graduate as well as a Trustee. At … Continue reading
Category Archives: memory
ruined: 107/365
Well they're not ruined… but that's what it felt like at first. Right after I wrote the post yesterday, I had all my books spread out around me–on the sofa, on the floor, on the table–and I went to put … Continue reading
this is 58
I can't possibly be this old and yet I am. Resisting the truth doesn't make me any more comfortable in my ever more freckled skin. So for the second year in a row, I'm greeting my age and giving it a great … Continue reading
family: 6/365
On one of my birthdays, Lilli, my grandmother, wrote me a several-page letter (blue ink, a schoolteacher's script) about the day I was born in Rapid City, South Dakota, her and my grandfather's trip to see me, and our trip back … Continue reading
the next writer in the series: july 1, 2014
In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard wrote, I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we … Continue reading
this is 57
Those of you who know me in real life know I have issues with aging—as in I couldn't possibly be this old; this is my mother's age. Resisting the truth is not making me any more comfortable in my crinkling … Continue reading
places called home
In Paul Auster's latest, Winter Journal, written in the second person, he lists his 21 permanent addresses–or, acknowledging the inadequacy of the adjective, his stopping places. Enclosures, habitations, the small rooms and large rooms that have sheltered your body from the … Continue reading
To honor the memory of 9/11, Hunger Mountain publishes two pieces by writers who were both in New York City on that Tuesday in 2001: "Our New York, Too, Will Disappear," a craft essay by Jessamine Price on Cynthia Ozick's 1999 essay "The Synthetic … Continue reading
my writing notebook: florida
Christine Schutt Florida debut novel Harcourt/A Harvest Book paperback 2004 On structure echoing content: Nothing then, nothing held its shape but blew away. (52) Dear Alice, you don't have to tell the whole story. (79) On the structure: 4 parts with … Continue reading
christmas magic 2011
If you can find twenty minutes, you can listen to Dylan Thomas' story "A Child's Christmas in Wales," read by the author–courtesy of NPR. The written story is also available online.
Thomas grounds the story of this long-ago Christmas in real details–snow and fire brigades and uncles–and yet he tells it as if it were a fairy tale.
The ending: "I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept."
VCFA visuals #3: remembering the stones
As part of a series at Douglas Glover's Numéro Cinq, my childhood…
rock & sling, poetry, arroyo, ecotone
One I'd heard of before. Three I hadn't. Some were free at AWP; some were not. In each one, I found something that made me glad I'd lugged it home–either connecting with the words of writers I didn't know or finding new poems and stories by writers I did. Two of these journals have stunning covers that will make me incapable of putting them in the recycling bin even after I need the space for new ones. So two I will send to a friend. Two I will take to the local high school library. Here are some highlights from the four literary journals I brought home from Washington a few weeks ago:
Rock & Sling–a journal of witness. Published twice a year by Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. Volume Six. Issue One. Winter 2011.
"Chalkboard" by Jeremy Clive Huggins:
I was in the 10th grade when it first registered: I will be someone else some day…Two decades later, I fail to remember that I will be someone else, not just some day, but next year, next week, next day, next anything.
Clams hiss through pin holes a few feet down.
Poetry. A publication of the Poetry Foundation. Volume 197. Number 3. December 2010. The Q & A issue. Cover art by Sam Martine. "Faces (detail), 1997.
Charles Baxter on his poem "Some Instances" is asked if poetry is an escape from narration: "My answer is a respectful "No"…Like many fiction writers, I began my writing life as a poet, and what I sometimes miss in my own fiction is the high-velocity association of ideas and events and imagery that poetry makes possible."
Jane Hirshfield on her poem "Sentencings" is asked about the image of "putting arms into woolen coat sleeves": "I might, I suppose, have written a different poem, about my late sister's coats. They are lovely. But I wrote this."
Arroyo. Department of English, California State University, East Bay. Hayward, California. Volume 2. Spring 2010. Cover art by Jonathan Viner.
Dorothy Allison interviewed by Jacqueline Doyle. 15 pages.
Life goes so fast and we lose so much. We can barely even hang on to memory. But if you've got a story, a stunned moment story, that moment lives forever.
Ecotone–reimagining place. Department of Creative Writing and The Publishing Laboratory at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. 10. The sex and death issue."Ecotone and the University of North Carolina Wilmington are proud to print this entire issue on 100 percent postconsumer fiber paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council."
Benjamin Percy on James Salter's "Akhnilo":
Suspense is the engine that drags a story forward…They [my students] misunderstand suspense, believing that it hinges exclusively on plot points, rather than on human urgency.
This story is a case study on the mystery outside the character and the urgency within…the true pull of the story comes from the desire the man feels, the desire we feel alongside him…
I support literary journals. Support art–any way you can.Crossposted at The Contrary Blog
life is meals
I'm approaching this post as I do my writing these days: without a plan in mind, I just sit down in front of the keyboard and continue.
Taking a break from the Christmas list, I wonder whether to write about the holidays, which reminds me of the first line of a Dickens novel…or whether to write about something other than the holidays. I think about what I'd like to read myself.
One of my favorite books ever is Light Years by James Salter. It was published in 1975, and I read it for the first time in 1990. One of my favorite (maybe my favorite) quotes in the book is this:
Life is weather. Life is meals. Lunches on a blue checked cloth on which salt has spilled. The smell of tobacco. Brie, yellow apples, wood-handled knives.
James Salter and his wife Kay wrote a book together that was published in 2006– Life is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days. The entry for December 18th is on dining rooms. Apparently Thomas Jefferson used the State Dining Room in the White House for his office and let his pet mockingbird fly around. I remember I used to let the kids play ping-pong on our dining room table. You can still see faint ping marks.
making a list and checking it twice
A list makes me feel as if I'm in control of things. It's a little summary of what I have to do. And if I can just get "it" on a list, it's in line to be done. It will get done.
On Sunday, in The New York Times Book Review, in the essay on the back page,"I've Got a Little List," Arthur Krystal discussed literary lists. He wrote,"Isn't every list in reality a ceremonial flourish against amnesia and chaos?"
Yes, exactly.
I keep trying different systems. What I really need is one of those hats with a pole that extends out in front of it so that the current list can dangle continuously in front of my eyes…
Lists are the one thing that don't seem to work for me on the computer. I need them on paper.
I make lists of things as I think of them on whatever is handy (like torn-off corners of envelopes). I make more organized lists on sturdier index cards. Sometimes, I make a series of lists in a small flip notebook. Or, like yesterday, I list on a print-out of my schedule for the day–that way the list is face-up and in my face.
I have Christmas lists: the get-Christmas-started list (which except for setting up the wrapping area is complete), the gift list, the food list…
The "list" has literary beginnings. According to Krystal:
"List," borrowed from the French word liste, first turns up, in the modern sense, in "Hamlet," when Horatio reports that Fortinbras has "sharked up a list of landless resolutes"–i.e., indiscriminately put together a makeshift army.
How do you list?
just because you can't remember
In The New York Times "Sunday Book Review," with a very cool cover by Maira Kalman, James Collins wrote the essay at the back, "The Plot Escapes Me," on whether there's a point to reading books when we can't remember what's in them. Although I do have difficulty remembering what I read, I admit this is a question I've never asked myself.
He consulted Maryanne Wolf, a professor of child development at Tufts University and the author of "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain"(which I just ordered).
I recommend the essay, but we're all busy. In what I consider to be the bottom line, Ms. Wolf said:
I totally believe that you are a different person for having read that book…I say that as a neuroscientist and an old literature major.
It is in some way working on you even though you aren't thinking about it.
It's there…You are the sum of it all.
I wanted to spread the good news. Keep reading.
writing my way there
I walk every step of what used to be the camp, of what is now Kingsland Bay State Park. Then I sit in a white Adirondack chair with my pen and paper, looking across the bord de l'eau to the Adirondacks. I bring my vision in to the flag pole cemented to the ground. The cement tells me it's the same one that was here when I arrived for the first time in July of 1970.
Why do I want to come back? For proof I was here. For clues as to who I used to be. I just want to stay long enough to…
I think this place has something to tell me.
I remember friends I made here, but I no longer keep up with them. It's this place I miss, not the people who were here. Is it this place or the person I was here?
I was my best self here. I learned how to be myself here. It was my first time away from home for a long period of time–eight weeks that first summer, nine the others. Each summer I got closer to me.
The metal rings holding the flag clang against the pole. The water of Lake Champlain laps against the shore. People spread cloths on the picnic tables. A motor boat zooms past a large sail boat that seems to linger in the moment.
Writing about it again this morning for this post, I finally get it. It's the continuous life. That's why I'm here–to understand that the girl who was here in 1970 is the same woman who is here now. I've been tagging these posts all week with those words without seeing it.
As Mary Gordon wrote so well in The Rest of Life:
Final post in 4-part series on Ecole Champlain: Part 1: places that call us back Part 2: hoping to discover Part 3: proof Part 4: writing my way there
"She sees that she has before her an important task: to understand that all the things that happened in her life happened to her. That she is the same person who was born, was a child, a girl, a young woman, a woman, and now she is old. That there is some line running through her body like a wick. She is the same person who was once born. All the things that happened to her happened to one person…'I'm trying to understand what it means to have had a life.'"
I ask the young park ranger if there are any cabins left. He says no, just the shed. But it's not just the shed.
I take some photos of the outside of the cabin and head deeper into the woods toward the Point of Rocks. Something tells me to go back. The cabin is unlocked.
Names and dates in uneven scrawl. White paint against dark wood. The shed is Chalet A–the insides hollowed out to make room for rakes and saws, park signs and four wheelers.
Kim was here. Becky Howe was here. I remember her. Connie Bryan in 1965. If you want to find out about the summer of '66, write to Mary Torras, Valley Road, New Canaan, CT. Leslie 1970. Nicole Browning I remember from 1970. Rose was here in 1971. Sandy in 1962. Sally Smith in 1966. Ceci Blewer in '68. Vee Vee was here. Heather in 1973.
This discovery fills a part of the empty box I brought along today, letting me know that part of the reason I return is to find proof that I was in fact here, that what I remember is not just in my head, not just a dream I had, but something I can touch. And here it's made of paint and wood—words that persist.
I am part of this place. This place is part of who I am.
I'm beginning to see a pattern. Another place that holds part of me is what used to be my grandparent's house in Mobile, Alabama. I've returned there once as an adult and written this story about it.
I will write more on Saturday…3rd post in 4-part series on Ecole Champlain: Part 1: places that call us back Part 2: hoping to discover Part 3: proof Part 4: writing my way there
hoping to discover
On Saturday, July 3rd, I took a break from lectures and readings and slid into my rented red Prius headed for the past. Even though Ferrisburg, Vermont, lies directly west from Montpelier, Google Maps directed me north to Burlington and then south.
In addition to my purse, I have coffee, water, camera, paper, and pen. I also seem to have some sort of invisible empty box with me that I hope to fill. I am going on a bear hunt and I want to catch a big one.
I wrote in my last post that Ecole Champlain, the French camp I attended in the '70s now seemed "mysterious to me, as if it's withholding secrets instead of holding memories."
But, as is so often the case with my words, I didn't get that right. Rather, what it seemed was as if the secret to something was there waiting for me to find it. In more words, the place was with me, not against me. In fact, I could almost see it closing its eyes, concentrating, in order to draw me back.
An old map shows the main entrance has always been the one I come in today, the one along the water that brings me in by MacDonough Lodge, now known as Hawley House. But that doesn't seem right. I figure out that the buses that used to bring us to camp after we flew into Burlington on Mohawk Airlines always used the service entrance, coming in past the stables and down the long straight dirt road to the lodge.
That sweet smell is still here, a smell I've come across only a few times since camp. A breeze will go by and there it is. Ecole Champlain. Vermont. Once I smelled it from a bathroom air freshener. I ask the young park ranger. He says it's the smell of cut hay. July is haying season in Vermont.
The dining hall is still here. The park ranger unlocks the door, and I enter the space where I once ate 7 grilled cheese sandwiches in a contest with a counselor. Other than a portion of the floor having been replaced, it looks the same–only empty.
The distance between the dining hall and the lodge seems smaller, as I would expect. But as I start down the road to the stables, I'm surprised, and pleased somehow, that this still seems like a long walk.
I peer in the windows of the stables. Then I turn to face the space where the riding rings used to be. When I concentrate, I can see the one across the road where my horse took the jump and I didn't. And then…the counselors used to call me Strawberry.
What will I discover during this visit? What do you hope to discover when you go back?
I will write more on Thursday…2nd post in 4-part series on Ecole Champlain: Part 1: places that call us back Part 2: hoping to discover Part 3: proof Part 4: writing my way there

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Top US Artists on a map
This week I took yet another crack at putting artists on a map. This time, I created a map that shows the top artists for every state in the US for every day of 2014 up until today. You can go through the calendar year, day-by-day to see which artists managed to capture the hearts and ears of different parts of the country. It is fascinating to see if there is a Super Bowl bump for the half-time artist, or if there is any change in how people listen to music on St. Patrick's day, or to see which artists are regional and which are national.
You can read more about the app on the insights.spotify.com blog and then take the app for a test drive. Hit the 'GO!' button to animate through the days of the year or hit the arrow keys to step through the calendar day by day. Click on a state to hear the most popular song by the most popular artist in that state on that day of the year.
It was a super fun app to write. I shall certainly write a bit more about some of the tech involved in the next couple of days.
More on "Where's the Drama?"
Posted by Paul in code, events, Music, music hack day, Spotify, The Echo Nest on September 8, 2014
My Music Hack Day Berlin hack was "Where's the Drama?" – a web app that automatically identifies the most dramatic moment in any song and plays it for you. I've been having lots of fun playing with it … and even though (or perhaps because) I know how it works, I'm often surprised at how well it does at finding the most dramatic moments. Here are some examples:
- When will the Bass Drop – Lonely Island
- Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
- Doomsday – Nero
- November Rain – Guns N Roses
How does it work? The app grabs the detailed audio analysis for the song from The Echo Nest. This includes a detailed loudness map of the song. This is the data I use to find the drama. To do so, I look for the part of the song with the largest rise in volume over the course of a 30 second window (longer songs can have a bit of a longer dramatic window). I give extra weight to crescendos that culminate in louder peaks (so if there are two crescendos that are 20dB in range but one ends at 5dB louder, it will win). Once I identify the most dynamic part of a song, I pad it a bit (so we get to hear a bit of the drop after the build).
The rest is just UI – the song gets plotted as a heavily filtered loudness curve with the dramatic passage highlighted. I plot things with Highcharts, which is a pretty nifty javascript plotting and charting library. I recommend.
Playing the music – I wanted to use Spotify to play the music, which was a bit problematic since there currently isn't a way to play full streams with the Spotify Web API, so I did a couple of hacky hacks that got me pretty far. First of all, I discovered that you can add a time offset to a Spotify URI like so:
When this URI is opened in Spotify (even when opened via a browser), Spotify will start to play the song a the 1:05 time offset.
I still needed to be able to stop playing the track – and there's no way to do that directly – so instead, I just open the URI:
which happens to be the URI for John Cage's 4'33. In other words, to stop playing one track, I just start playing another (that happens to be silent). The awesome side effect of this is that I'll be slowly turning anyone who uses "Where's the Drama?" into experimental music listeners as the Spotify recommendation system responds to all of those John Cage 'plays'. This should win some sort of 'hackiest hack of the year' award.
It was a fun hack to make, and great fun to demo. And now that I have the app, I am no longer wasting time listening to song intros and outros, I can just get to the bit of the song that matters the most.
The Set Listener
Going to a show? Not totally familiar with an artist's catalog? Give The Set Listener a try. The Set Listener is a web app that will create a Spotify playlist of an artist's most recent show.
To use The Set Listener just type in the artist name, and hit the search button, you'll be presented with a playlist of songs from that artist's most recent show. Hit the 'Save this playlist to Spotify' button and you'll have a Spotify playlist that you can listen to on your desktop or on your mobile phone.
The app relies on the SetList.fm API and the brand new and super spiffy Spotify Web API. Now that the Spotify Web API supports the creation and saving of playlists creating these types of apps is quite straightforward – just a few hours of coding. This was my first time using the SetList.fm API – its a super resource for setlists from concerts by thousands of artists.
Check out the app online at The Set Listener. The code is online on github.
The Echo Nest + Spotify Sandbox
I am wearing my International Executive Music Hacker hat today. I'm writing this blog post at 5AM somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, on my way to the Barcelona Music Hack Day, where I'll be representing both The Echo Nest and Spotify. I'm pretty excited about the hack event – first, because it's in freaking Barcelona, and second, because I get to talk about what's been going on with the Spotify and Echo Nest APIs.
It has been just about 100 days since The Echo Nest and Spotify have joined forces. In that time we've been working hard to build the best music platform for listeners and for developers. This week we are releasing some of the very first fruits of our labors.
First up, we are releasing a new Spotify Web API.
This is a complete revamp of the Spotify Metadata API (the old version has now been deprecated). The Spotify Web API gives you access to all sorts of information about the Spotify catalog including details about artists, albums and tracks. Want to know the top tracks for an artist? There's an API for that. Looking for high quality album art, artist images and 30 second audio previews? There are APIs for that too. Best of all, the new API includes perhaps the most requested Spotify API feature of all time With the Spotify Web API you can now create and modify playlists on behalf of authenticated users. Yes – you can now create a Spotify web app that creates playlists. (I personally requested this feature way back in 2008, here's my begging plea for the feature in 2009).
I've been using the beta version of this new API for a couple months now and I must say I am quite impressed. The API is fast, super easy to use, and provides all sorts of great data for building apps. In the past weeks I've had fun converting a number of my favorite apps to use the Spotify API. First there's the Road Trip Mix Tape that lets you create a Spotify playlist of music by artists that are from the very towns you are driving through. Then there's Music Popcorn, a visual interface for exploring genres. For the less visual, there's the Genre Browser that gives you lots of details about the different music genres including playlists that help give you a gentle introduction to any of the thousands of Echo Nest genres. Next there's Boil the Frog, an app that creates seamless playlists between any two artists. Finally there's the 3D Music Maze, an app that lets you explore for music by wandering through a 3 dimensional music world.
Next up, a freshly minted Echo Nest + Spotify Sandbox — a new Spotify ID space.
These apps are possible because of the second thing we are releasing this week – a spiffy, shiny new Spotify Rosetta Stone catalog that ensures that the Echo Nest API has the freshest, and most up-to-date view of the Spotify universe of music. For those who might be new to The Echo Nest, Project Rosetta Stone is something we've been working on here at the Nest for many years. The goal of Project Rosetta Stone is to solve one of the most common problems that nearly every music app developer faces. The problem is that every music service has its own set of IDs – a music subscription service like Spotify has its own artist, album and track IDs. A lyric service has its own (and very different) IDs for those same artists, albums and tracks and a concert ticketing API has yet a third set of IDs. This is quite problematic for app developers that want to build an app that combines information from multiple services. Without a common ID system, the app developer has to resort to metadata searching and matching – which is slow and quite error prone – this results in a poor app.
Project Rosetta Stone solves this problem by providing ID mappings between as many music services as we can. With this mapping you can easily translate IDs from one ID space to another. With Rosetta Stone, if you have the Spotify track ID you can get Lyricfind and/or Musixmatch IDs making it easy to use those respective APIs to retrieve lyrics for that song. You can easily map the Spotify artist ID to a Songkick or Eventful ID to get ticket and touring information from those APIs. And of course you can use the Spotify track ID to get detailed Echo Nest information about the song such as its tempo, energy, danceability, along with detailed Echo Nest artist data such as latest artist news, blog posts and similar artists.
We have had Spotify IDs in Rosetta Stone for many years, but this particular mapping has in the past been problematic for us. Spotify has a huge catalog and keeping the mapping fresh and up to date between Spotify and The Echo Nest has always been a big challenge. There's a huge back catalog with millions of tracks to deal with plus thousands of new tracks are being added every week. The result was that there was always a bit of a lag between when updates to the Spotify catalog were reflected in the Rosetta Stone mapping. This meant that if you built a Rosetta Stone-based app you could find that The Echo Nest wouldn't always know about a Spotify track, especially if a track was very new. The result would be a less-than-perfect app.
This week we are releasing a new Spotify ID space. Our engineers have been working hard over the last 100 days to set up all sorts of infrastructure and plumbing to ensure that we have the most up-to-date view of the Spotify catalog. No more lag between when a new track appears in Spotify and when you can get Echo Nest data. Plus, all of our APIs that take IDs as inputs will now also take Spotify IDs as input as well. If you have a Spotify artist ID you can use it with any Echo Nest artist API method. Likewise, if you have a Spotify track ID you can use it with any Echo Nest song or track API method that takes a track ID as input. This makes it **really** easy for developers to use The Echo Nest and Spotify Apps together. For example, here's an API call that returns detailed audio properties for a Spotify track given its ID.
I've been having much fun using The Echo Nest API with the brand new Spotify API. I've already written some code that you can use. First, I wrote a Python library for Spotify called Spotipy. It's makes it easy to write Python programs that use the new Spotify Web API, and it works well with my Echo Nest Python library called Pyen. Here's an example of using the two libraries together:
I've also put together a number of Javascript example apps that use both APIs. These are simple apps intended to help new developers (or at least new to music apps) use the APIs together to do common things like create chillout playlists, browse through the web of similar artists, and more.
So yes, I'm pretty jazzed about this trip to Barcelona. I get to create a music hack, I get to spend a few days with some of the best music hackers in the world (The Barcelona Music Hack Day, as part of the Sonar Festival tends to attract the top music hackers). I get to spend a few days on the Mediterranean in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Best of all, I get to talk about the new Spotify and Echo Nest developer platform and help music hackers build cool stuff on top of the newly combined platform.
I've put together a page that talks in detail about the new Spotify / Echo Nest platform. It has links to all of the API docs, libraries, examples, github repos, demos and details on how you can use The Echo Nest / Spotify Platform. Check it out here:
Keep an eye on this space for I'll be updating it as we continue to integrate our developer APIs. There's lots more coming, so stay tuned!
Bear core
Glenn has added a few fun genres to his Every Noise At Once map of the genre space. Check out the Bear genre which consists of bands with the word 'bear' in their name:
If you get tired of Bear then there is always the Horse genre which is made up of the many bands with Horse in their name (unfortunately, there is no Wyld Stallyns in the genre – seems to me that a fictional genre should have the greatest fictional band of all time):
The Skip
At the time when I was coming of age musically, when we listened to music on LPs, the listening experience was very different than it is today. For one, if you didn't like the currently playing song you had to get out of your chair, walk over to the turntable, carefully pick up the tone arm and advance the needle to the next track. That was a lot of work to avoid three minutes of bad music. You really had to really dislike a song to make skipping it worth the effort. Today, with our fancy iPhones and our digital streaming music subscription services, skipping a song couldn't be easier. Just tap a button and you are on to the next song. The skip button is now a big part of the overall listening experience. Don't like a song? Skip it. Never heard a song? Skip it. Just heard a song? Skip it. The Skip even plays a role in how we we pay for music. For most music subscription services if you want the freedom to skip a song whenever you want, you'll need to be a premium subscriber, otherwise you'll be limited to a half-dozen or so skips per hour.
I am interested in how people are using the skip button when listening to music so I spent a bit of time taking a closer look at skip data. This and the next blog post or two will be all about the skipping behavior of music listeners. We'll take a look at how often people skip, whether different listener demographics have different skipping behavior, what artists and genres are most and least likely to trigger skips and more!
The Data
This is my first deep dive into Spotify data. The Spotify team has built up a fantastic big data infrastructure making it easy to extract insights from the billions and billions of music plays. For this study I've processed several billions of plays from many million unique listeners from all around the world.
What is a skip?
For this study, I define a skip as any time the listener abandons a song before the song finishes. It could be because the listener explicitly presses the skip button, or it could be that they searched for and started another song before the current song finished, or they clicked on a different song in the playlist. For whatever reason, if the listener doesn't make it to the end of the song, I call it a skip.
How often do people skip?
The first and most basic question to answer is: How often do people skip?. Given that skipping is so easy how big of a part does skipping play in our listening. The answer: A lot!
Here are the numbers. First, lets look at how often a song is skipped within the first five seconds of play. I call these quick skips. The likelihood that a song will be skipped within the first five seconds is an astounding 24.14%. Nearly one quarter of all song plays are abandoned in the first 5 seconds. The likelihood that a song will be skipped within the first thirty seconds rises to 35.05%. The chance that a song is skipped before it ends is a whopping 48.6%. Yes, the odds are only slightly better than 50/50 that a song will be played all the way to the end.
|Skipped in
|Likelihood of skip
|First 5 seconds
|24.14 %
|First 10 seconds
|28.97 %
|First 30 seconds
|35.05 %
|Before song finishes
|48.6 %
The following plot shows the average skipping behavior for millions of listeners and billions of plays. The plot shows the rather steep drop off in listeners in the early part of a song when most listeners are deciding whether or not to skip the song. Then there's a slow but steady decline in listeners until we reach the end of the song where only about 50% of the listeners remain.
The next plot shows the average skipping behavior within in the first 60 seconds of a song. It shows that most of the song skips happen within the first 20 seconds or so of the song, and after that there's a relatively small but steady skipping rate.
We can also calculate an overall skip rate per listener – that is, the average number of times a listener skips a song per hour.
Average listener/skips per hour: 14.65
On average a listener is skipping a song once every four minutes. That's a whole lot of skipping.
Who is doing all that skipping?
Do different types of listeners skip music at different rates? Lets take a look.
By Gender
Skipping rate of male listeners: 44.75%
Skipping rate of female listeners: 45.23%
There seems to be little difference as to how often men and women skip.
By Platform:
Desktop skipping rate: 40.1%
Mobile skipping rate: 51.1%
When we are at our desktops, we tend to settle into longer listening sessions and skip less, while when we are mobile we spend much more time interacting with our music.
By age:
This plot shows the skipping rate as a function of the age of the listener. It shows that young teenagers have the highest skipping rate – well above 50%, but as the listener gets older their skipping rate drops rather dramatically, to reach the skipping nadir of about 35%. Interestingly, the skipping rate rises again for people in their late 40s and early 50s. I have a couple of theories about why this might be. The first theory is that the skipping rate is a indication of how much free time a person has time. Teenagers skip more because they have more time to devote to editing their music stream, whereas thirty-somethings, with their little kids and demanding jobs, have no time to pay attention to their music players. The second theory, suggested by Spotify über-analyst Chris Tynan, is that the late-forties skipping resurgence is caused by teenagers that use their parent's account.
When do people skip the most?
The following plot shows the skipping behavior over a 24 hour period. To create the plot, I analyzed the listening behavior for UK residents (which are conveniently confined to a single timezone) over several weeks.
The plot shows that the skipping rate is lowest when people are paying less attention to music – like when they are asleep, or at work. Skipping behavior peaks in the morning hour as people start they day and start to head into work and again at the end of the day when they are at home or out socializing with their friends. The plot shows the time of day when people tend to have the most attention to devote to hand-curating their music stream. When people are sleeping or working, their skip rate goes down.
In the next plot, below, the skipping rate is overlaid with normalized song plays. It is interesting to see that the highest skipping rates do not coincide with the peak music playing times of the day, but instead is aligned with the times of day when rate of change in plays is the most.
Skipping behavior by Day of the Week
The following plot shows the average skipping rate per day of the week. The skipping rate is higher on weekends, showing, once again, that when people have more spare time, they are more apt to curate their listening sessions by skipping tracks.
Take away
The Skip really has changed how we listened to music. It plays a significant role in how we interacts with our music stream. When we are more engaged with our music – we skip more, and when music is in the background such as when we are working or relaxing, we skip less. When we have more free time, such as when we are young, or on the weekends, or home after a day of work, we skip more. That's when we have more time to pay attention to our music. The big surprise for me is how often we skip. On average, we skip nearly every other song that we play.
Skipping has become an important part of how we listen to music. It is no surprise then, that 'unlimited skipping' is a feature used to entice people to upgrade to a premium paid account. And it may be one of the reasons why people would switch from a service that doesn't offer unlimited skips even on their premium service to one that does.
Coming soon: Look for my next post that will look at which genres, songs and artists get skipped the most and the least.
RIT WiC Hacks
I spent this weekend in Rochester NY where I participated in the Rochester Institute of Technology's WiC Hacks – a hackathon for women of all skill levels. At the hackathon women from the Rochester area – including many from local high schools and middle schools spent 12 hours learning about technology and then applying what they learned by making a hack that they could show off to the rest of the hackers. Around 75 women hackers were in attendance along with participation from companies such as Google, Apple, Xerox, Intuit, and, of course, Spotify and The Echo Nest. Companies provided technical guidance, inspiration, mentorship and prizes.
There were lots of great hacks in built during the hackathon. One of the crowd favorites was The Virtual Outdoors, an Android app designed to interest young women in STEM technologies using real life applications and fun games built by a team of high schoolers.
Another nifty hack was the Mixtery – a game in which you had to figure out the identify of a song that has been beat-shuffled with the Echo Nest. This hack won the Echo Nest prize.
The winner of the Spotify prize was Steminist – a web app that helps you identify the type of science, engineering or tech field you might be best suited for – it rewards you with some Spotify music after finishing the quiz.
All in all, it was a great event – with lots of energy, great teamwork, and lots of really creative ideas from all of the young women. Plus an added bonus I got to see my daughter @imjen – she was helping out and even gave the Twitter API talk.
Congrats to the organizers for putting together such a wonderful event. Looking forward to participating in more events just like this one.


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MTV was once my electronic cool older brother, exposing me to sweet new bands, showing me cool videos, and telling me that weird comedy like "The State" is hilarious. It gets confusing though when I remember that my brother is really a carefully-crafted entertainment conglomerate that trades in the commodity of coolness and that, at the end of the day, has to answer to advertisers and a board of directors. This means that over the past 30 years - MTV went on the air on August 1, 1981 - the network has provided both moments of visionary, genuine, groundbreaking art, as well as woefully ill-conceived bits of sloppy, regrettable nonsense. Here are the best and the worst moments:
Here's a big secret about "MTV Unplugged": we all pretended to really like it so we could seem cultured and worldly; we pretended to love hearing our favorite songs stripped away of everything that made them interesting so they were bland and boring ("Layla," for example). Or, the show would feature artists like Bob Dylan or Tony Bennett or 10,000 Maniacs, who weren't exactly using Motorhead or New Order levels of electric guitars or synthesizers, respectively. And yet, the one time the show really popped was the one time it really probably shouldn't have. The 1991 episode "Yo! Unplugged Rap," co-branded with "Yo! MTV Raps," was a revelation. At the time, and hell, even now, rap consisted almost entirely of electronic instrumentation, samples, and computerized beats. Performed live, in the intimate "Unplugged" setting, with a five-piece backup band, showed how immediate, vital, and human rap could get. Icons like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and MC Lute all performed, but the standout was LL Cool J's furious reimagination of "Mama Said Knock You Out."
"Unplugged" was getting stale by 1994 as was grunge, the rock format that dominated the era, what with the shotgun suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and all. MTV's solution to both problems: find the next big thing, and put it on "Unplugged." And yet, for some reason, network executives thought that the next music style popular with the young people wouldn't be music at all: it would be gritty, urban, free-form poetry. So, after hiring admittedly cool, very-New York poets like Maggie Estep and Jim Carroll, it put them all together for two installments of "MTV Unplugged: Spoken Word." Yep - the network that brought you "Jersey Shore" once actively tried to sell you poetry.
I have this theory that the music at the close of a decade is always going to be terrible, because culture is stuck with the last gasps of the current decade's tropes while also trying to figure out what the ones of the next decade are going to be. For example: smooth lite-rock in 1979, Milli Vanilli in 1989 and, most egregiously, rap-rock in 1999. Kid Rock is pretty much the only major act left standing from this incongruous and unpalatable genre of lunk-headed metal riffs with angry men talking in rhythm to them, although he's now moved on to dirtbag country-rock. A decade and a half ago, he was still equal parts metal and old school rap. Despite my dislike of everything going on here, Kid Rock turned in one of the best performances in MTV Video Music Awards history in 1999, when he affectionately and respectfully took the stage with a rock band, Aerosmith, and a rap group, Run-DMC. Together, the three acts performed a tight, joyous "Walk This Way," of course. It proved that Kid Rock could be an electrifying live performer, praise something other than himself and that Aerosmith had not, completely ruined itself and its legacy with "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing."
The 2002 Video Music Awards fell on Michael Jackson's birthday, and as luck would have it, he was at the ceremony and also having a lucid day. So the show's producers wrangled Britney Spears, dressed as the biker from the Village People, to go onstage to wish Jackson a "Happy birthday" and give him a novelty trophy. Spears dutifully read the script on the teleprompter, which included a comment that read, to her, that Jackson was "the artist of the millennium." Well, Jackson was a noted megalomaniac--he was the one who came up with the "King of Pop" nickname, and since the early '90s only left the house if he was dressed like a mid-century fascist dictator. All he heard backstage, it would seem, were the words "artist of the millennium." Jackson, adorably but sadly thrilled, came out and graciously accepted the trophy. "A little boy growing up in Indiana, if someone told me I'd be getting 'the artist of the millennium award,' I'd have never believed it." Nor should he have, because that wasn't a real award or one he was being given.
In 1999, the network was a bit torn between its meal ticket and its perennial desire to be the coolest kid in school. Its daily countdown show "TRL" (formerly "Total Request Live," but spelling things out is laaaaaaame) was bringing in tons of impressionable young viewers and lucrative ad revenue, but at the same time, host Carson Daly seemed embarrassed that he had to introduce the same videos, day after day, by the same slight boy bands like *NSYNC and The Backstreet Boys, owing to TRL's format of letting the online and phoned-in votes of hysterical 13-year-old girls determine the show's playlist. That's why it's excellent that an April Fool's Day joke on "TRL" in 1999 actually worked. An Internet/word-of-mouth campaign spread across college campuses, urging write-in votes on the TRL website for "Hangin' Tough," the New Kids on the Block's 1989 unconvincing proclamation of tenacity. Not only did "Hangin' Tough" reach "TRL" for exactly one day, but it was the #1 video of the day. Daly appeared perplexed, but pleased, thankful for the little joke that made his silly job different and amusing, if only for three minutes.
What with his reality show and many appearances selling something or another, we're very familiar with the face of Gene Simmons, usually staring up slightly and ominously as if he either wants to bone us or devour us whole. There once was a time when the real human appearances of the monster-kabuki makeuped members of KISS were unknown and unfamiliar. They were basically evil superheroes and real-life comic book characters, so to see the regular human faces behind the KISS concept would not only kill the fun, but also be completely unnecessary. But by 1983, the band's relevance and popularity were dwindling, and painted faces were no longer a novelty, but rather something we had come to accept from KISS. The only truly novel thing the band could do then would be to drop the makeup. On the day of the release of their album "Lick It Up," KISS went on MTV to appear without the black-and-white goo for the first time. With a nervous solemnity that he should have reserved for something like a Beatles reunion or the end of the Cold War, veejay J.J. Jackson said the name of each guy while a shot of them in their makeup faded out to reveal their face. And they just looked like your usual sleazy, long-haired rock guys. It was basically the most anticlimactic thing ever. I don't know what MTV was thinking would happen. Yellow "Thriller" eyes, maybe? The shocking revelation that the "Starchild," Paul Stanley would have a massive, star-shaped growth on his face?
In 2000, MTV aired 25 "Lame," a countdown of videos from the 80s and 90s once beloved but which subsequently became passé and worthy of ridicule - Gerardo's "Rico Suave," Journey's "Separate Ways," Snow's "Informer," that kind of thing. Hosts Jon Stewart, Janeane Garafolo, Chris Kattan and Denis Leary made fun of the videos while they ran, after which they would be permanently retired from rotation (heavy rotation being the reason why these videos were now hated, Garafolo repeatedly quipped). Vanilla Ice, nee Rob Van Winkle, was invited to the special to personally destroy MTV's master copy of "Ice Ice Baby," the song that made him rich and also a pariah. Van Winkle smashed the tape with a bat...and then the rest of the 25 "Lame" set, in a moment of long-simmering cathartic rage.
MTV Films, an offshoot tasked with bringing the cable channel's unique sensibility and youth appeal to big-budget feature films, has produced many notable and decent movies, such as "Zoolander," "Napoleon Dynamite," "Beavis and Butt-head Do America," and the three-part "Jackass" saga, but to launch the brand in 1996, it made a movie version of a short film it had aired years earlier. "Joe's Apartment" was a musical about hundreds of singing, tightly choreographed, feces-eating cockroaches (some of which were cockroach puppets) that lived in a squalid New York apartment. As if that wasn't a hard enough sell, it also starred Jerry O'Connell. Produced on a budget of $13 million, it earned $4.6 million at the box office.
"People really do win on MTV" was a slogan the network used to use to promote its quirky, music-themed contests with pretty amazing, one-of-a-kind prizes. Among the things you could have won over the years, had your SASE been picked or home video proposal been stellar: directing Madonna's "True Blue" video, naming a Sammy Hagar solo album or having Metallica, Twisted Sister, or Anthrax play a concert in your backyard.
After a successful year of its viewer-programmed "Total Request Live," MTV decided to let its viewers choose a "TRL" on-air personality as well. And those viewers, who blessed acts like Limp Bizkit, 98 Degrees and Orgy with briefly successful careers, decided that a shrill, incoherent, street kid named Jesse Camp should be that on-air personality. Camp turned out to actually be a rich kid from Connecticut, as well as a terrible television host. For contingency, the network hired the contest's runner-up, affable and musically knowledgeable Dave Holmes, as well. Which was a good idea, because Camp was gone in a year.
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Confession time. It was cold and rainy last weekend, and I motivated myself to go to the gym for an indoor cardio workout that would warm me up in no time. When I got there, it was like everyone in the entire city had the same idea, and every machine was occupied.
After waiting for about 10 minutes, I decided to throw in my towel. Literally. The towel I had grabbed on the way in went straight into the gym's laundry bag, and I exited without doing any kind of activity. Something about the situation made me terribly unmotivated, and I simply decided my workout would wait until the next day. Have you ever left the gym without working out?
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Rodgers threw a 64-yard touchdown pass to Jordy Nelson, Eddie Lacy ran for 120 yards and Mason Crosby kicked four field goals as the Green Bay Packers beat the Baltimore Ravens, 19-17, on Sunday.
Rodgers went 17 for 32 for 315 yards with one touchdown and one interception. He played most of the game without two of his top three receivers — James Jones hurt his left knee on a first-quarter play, and Randall Cobb left for good after being struck on his right knee on a tackle by Matt Elam.
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His 64-yarder to Nelson gave Green Bay a 16-3 lead late in the third quarter. After the Ravens closed to 19-17 on an 18-yard touchdown catch by Dallas Clark with 2:04 remaining, Rodgers clinched the victory with a 52-yard completion to Jermichael Finley on a third-and-3. Rodgers completed only seven passes after halftime, yet those plays totaled 199 yards.
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Surrounding mountain ranges
Chugagh State Park literally surrounds Anchorage on the north, east and south. Many of the popular trails, such as Flattop mountain, are just minutes away from Anchorage. The Glen Alps trailhead, where the trail to Flattop begins, along with several others, also has several overlooks which provide a nice view of the nearby mountain ranges, and possibly provide an even nicer view if the weather is cooperating.
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Eklutna Lake
Pronounced ek-LOOT-nuh, this montane reservoir lies in a natural Eden surrounded on three sides by mountains. Two of these are heavily forested, while the far peak across the lake wears a snowcap even through the summer. The lake itself is pristine, rather narrow but long, and serves as the hub of the area's hiking trails.
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Thunderbird Falls
This turnoff is the first outlet from AK-1 heading out of downtown Anchorage toward Wasilla. A small parking area at the trailhead offers space for a limited number of cars, but the trail is level and short, going only a modest distance before reaching the falls. Here the hiker can either wind down into the chasm to meet the falls along Thunderbird Creek, or keep the upper path to watch with the others from a spacious platform.
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The Potter Marsh is located near the foot of the chugach state park near anchorage. This marsh is home to many species of birds during the summer season.
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View of anchorage and the knik arm
The view of anchorage and the waters of the knik arm up the mountains is simply amazing, with the various colours.
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Calling hours will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29 at Krueger Funeral Home, 2619 Brewerton Road in Mattydale. Prayer services will begin at the funeral home at 9:15 a.m. on Wednesday, followed by a 10 a.m. mass of Christian burial at St. Margaret's Church, 203 Roxboro Road in Mattydale. Burial will be in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, Liverpool.
Miles resided in the Mattydale area for most of her life and was a communicant of St. Margaret's Church.
She is survived by her husband of seven years, Gregory; their son, Logan John; her parents, Michael and Bettyjane Laquidari; three brothers, Michael (Kirstie) Laquidari, Christopher Laquidari, and Andrew Laquidari; and by her grandfather, Robert Ripley.
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