octavia

share a track, watch the album art bloom in the preview

2012 – 2019
103tracks
61shared on facebook
89posts
66commits
octavia was a quick-and-dirty Sinatra app — one of my first in Ruby. You uploaded an MP3; it read the ID3 tags, pulled the cover from Last.fm, and served a tiny page whose OpenGraph tags made the album art show up when you posted the link to Facebook. The MP3s expired after 30 days, but the metadata and the cover art lived on. Named after the cellist pony, “’cause she’s kind of a badass.” What follows is its whole life, woven together: the songs I shared, the words I wrote sharing them, the features as I built them — and a little of what else was going on.

The timeline

octavia’s database was rebuilt in early 2013, and URL slugs only arrived then too — so a handful of the earliest 2012 shares survive only as the words I wrote alongside them.

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Jun 20, 2012
Octavia 7e0fd5c

The first commit, on a June evening. A little Sinatra app: upload an MP3, read its ID3 tags, fetch the cover from Last.fm, and serve a page whose OpenGraph tags make the album art bloom inside a Facebook link preview. Named after Octavia, the cellist pony — “’cause she’s kind of a badass.”

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Jun 20, 2012 Added favicon and made some UI changes. 03ec88f
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Jun 20, 2012 Environment and layout changes. 6b58ba4
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Jun 20, 2012 added README 807c274
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Jun 20, 2012 that was markdown 9ba1f7a
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Jun 20, 2012 Update master 78fac1a
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Jun 20, 2012 readme b7d3baa
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Jun 20, 2012 Update master 8234e4b
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Jun 20, 2012 Update master b0f5b92
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Jun 20, 2012
Added delete functionality and a couple bugfixes. 77308e0

Same night, still going: delete keys so a track could be unshared, a max upload size, and the first round of bugfixes.

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Jun 20, 2012 Fixed some Last.fm API issues, added a max upload size, delete functionality, and fixed some bugs. d6ab62d
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Jun 20, 2012
Fixed issue handling uploads with malformed or missing ID3 tags and albums that are not found by Last.fm cd5f631

Handling the messy real world — uploads with malformed or missing ID3 tags, and albums Last.fm had simply never heard of.

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Jun 20, 2012 Removed that debugging code I thought I removed already. e000a16
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Jun 20, 2012

“4/4 or 3/4? Or some polyrhythmic witchcraft?”

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Jun 20, 2012

“From their new album. Click to listen/download.”

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Jun 20, 2012 Removed non-minified CSS and JS files. e64ca1e
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Jun 21, 2012

(shared a track)

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Jun 29, 2012 “From an awesome discussion on hacker news about how hubris, impatience, and laziness are traits of great programmers and hackers: "I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two…”
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Jul 4, 2012
Traveled to Hannibal, Missouri — Hannibal, Missouri
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Jul 19, 2012

“As heard in that one stabbystabby-ts- video. Good song to backstab to. Click to play/download.”

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Jul 24, 2012 “There's no excuse for this. It's completely ridiculous that some people refuse to use available (very proven!) technology like vaccines where their opting-out can hurt everyone else around them. Infants and immunocompromised people who…”
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Aug 3, 2012

“From their new album. Click to play/download. http://octavia.jfave.com/19”

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Aug 3, 2012
Jenner La Fave added Rainbow Dash to his favorite athletes.
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Aug 3, 2012
Jenner La Fave added Ruby to his interests.
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Aug 5, 2012

“I listen to this album way too freaking much. Click to play/download. http://octavia.jfave.com/20”

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Aug 8, 2012
Updated to use taglib2, added scavenging, and made some functionality changes fe58735

Scavenging: uploaded MP3s now self-destruct after 30 days, but their metadata and album art live on. octavia was never a music host — just a way to make a link pretty.

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Aug 8, 2012 Added Gemfile. ce81bec
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Aug 8, 2012 Scavenge records on start 4783e78
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Aug 8, 2012 Fixed lastfm getBuylinks API wrapper. b13d4fe
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Aug 8, 2012 Added startup script 6ae6307
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Aug 8, 2012 Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/jenrzzz/octavia 352ad8a
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Aug 8, 2012 Update README.md 065e1bb
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Aug 8, 2012 Update README.md e842c42
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Aug 8, 2012 don't try to fetch the buylink more than once a9077fe
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Aug 8, 2012 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:jenrzzz/octavia c041aa3
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Aug 14, 2012 Fixed issues with \0 in filenames and including correct TagLib2 gem. 87b14e9
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Aug 14, 2012 Fixed logging 3998643
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Aug 14, 2012

(shared a track)

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Aug 15, 2012

“So apparently some people have never heard this band. That needs to change. http://octavia.jfave.com/23”

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Aug 15, 2012
Added play count to track view. bb284b2

Added a play count to the track page.

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Aug 16, 2012

“Back in the day, restarting the level in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater until you got this song. http://octavia.jfave.com/24”

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Aug 17, 2012 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:jenrzzz/octavia f8b3386
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Aug 18, 2012

“This is the most played track in my library. Or at least was at one point before my play counts reset.”

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Aug 22, 2012

(shared a track)

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Aug 23, 2012 “_________________________________________ / "You know, it's at times like this when \ | I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a | | man from Betelgeuse and about to die of | | asphyxiation in deep space that I | | really wish I'd listened to…”
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Aug 24, 2012

“W|-|47 £3550|\|5 !|\| |=|2!3|\||)5|-|!|* |-|4\/3 '/0|_| £34|2|\|3|) 70|)4'/?”

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Aug 28, 2012

“http://octavia.jfave.com/29”

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Sep 1, 2012

“http://octavia.jfave.com/20 They're playing at the Irenic on November 17th. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/dec/28/el-ten-eleven/”

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Sep 8, 2012

“Rei-ka-ka-kan-kank, ba-dank-kank.”

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Sep 12, 2012 “"A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise it's necessarily not a priority. Making something a BIG RED TOP TOP BIG HIGHEST #1 priority changes nothing but text styling. If it were really important, it'd already be…”
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Sep 23, 2012

“Single from their new album dropping on Tuesday. http://octavia.jfave.com/32”

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Oct 12, 2012 “Look to the right of the search results and click the fullscreen button. https://www.google.com/search?q=conways+game+of+life”
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Oct 19, 2012

“http://octavia.jfave.com/33”

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Oct 29, 2012

“http://octavia.jfave.com/35”

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Oct 29, 2012

“Come see on November 17th at the irenic: http://octavia.jfave.com/36”

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Nov 13, 2012

“My all-time favorite Flaming Lips B-side. I had to purchase an actual physical CD to find it! http://octavia.jfave.com/39”

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Nov 21, 2012
improve handling of long tag names (looking at you, wayne coyne and sufjan stevens) 9c5715e

The great ID3 war begins — taming absurdly long tag names. The commit log narrates the whole fight: “why can’t i, hold all these characters,” “this is all wayne coyne’s fault,” “wryyyyy,” “all the evil things you can do with id3 tags.” (Blame Wayne Coyne and Sufjan Stevens.)

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Nov 21, 2012 move scavenge_tracks out of helpers block 29fb9ff
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Nov 21, 2012 truncate path names ff88281
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Nov 21, 2012 why can't i, hold all these characters 21cca40
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Nov 21, 2012 can't count, either c88bad9
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Nov 21, 2012 this is all wayne coyne's fault 1472ed1
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Nov 21, 2012 fix up deletions 65f02df
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Nov 21, 2012 wryyyyy f71bc5b
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Nov 21, 2012 all the evil things you can do with id3 tags 5536690
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Nov 21, 2012

“This song held the record for longest track name in my library until I found that the full title for track 2 of my copy on Sufjan Stevens' _Illinoise_ is "The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, "I have fought the Big Knives and will continue to fight them until they are off our lands!" http://octavia.jfave.com/43”

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Nov 27, 2012 “Scala implicits seriously give me nightmares. Few programmers are ever ready to wield that much power. I mean seriously, in Scala "==" tests structural equality rather than reference equality, so you can get yourself into some crazy shit…”
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Dec 2, 2012

“http://octavia.jfave.com/45”

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Dec 3, 2012
add artwork_missing image 1a7bd7f

Added an artwork_missing image, for the albums Last.fm couldn’t find.

Dec 6, 2012 “A network engineer was shipwrecked on an island with very few supplies. Taking an inventory, he tallied a pocketknife, a granola bar, and a scrap of fiber. He ate part of the granola bar and started looking for some food. Finding nothing…”
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Dec 12, 2012

“http://octavia.jfave.com/47”

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Dec 31, 2012

“At a concert in Michigan, someone shouted out a request for this song, upon which Matt Berninger replied "Nope, sorry, I don't want to do that one because you'll all go home and want to kill yourselves." From the aptly-named "Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers."”

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Jan 2, 2013

(shared a track)

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Jan 11, 2013 “He's like a function — he returns a value, in the form of his opinion. It's up to you to cast it into a void or not. -- Phil Lapsley, co-author of RFC 977 (NNTP)”
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Jan 20, 2013
make scavenge_tracks actually work 1342e6b

Made scavenge_tracks actually work.

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Jan 22, 2013
Started New Job at Apple — Cupertino, California
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Feb 9, 2013

“Hell's got all the good bands anyway.”

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Feb 18, 2013 “Typing in a shell in a VM in a VNC session may be one of the most difficult things I've ever done. After 5 minutes I've managed: $ vvi /eeeeetc/syyyyyyyyyysconfig/nnnnnnnnnetwork-scripts//ifcccfg-eeeeeth0”
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Feb 18, 2013

“This will forever be the OS X 10.3 setup assistant background music.”

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Feb 19, 2013

“The feels”

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Feb 24, 2013
add url slug support 7169fb0

Pretty URLs: /101/Be-Free--A-Way-The-Flaming-Lips instead of a bare number.

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Feb 24, 2013 update permalink field dad6f30
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Feb 24, 2013 fix handling of deleted tracks a12955f
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Feb 24, 2013 silly nots 907bde9
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Feb 26, 2013
Train Song
Feist + Ben Gibbard — Dark Was The Night

“trains”

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Feb 26, 2013 fix file handling and add shebang to start script b2d36a4
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Feb 27, 2013
Song Against Sex
Neutral Milk Hotel — On Avery Island

“http://octavia.jfave.com/2/Song-Against-Sex-Neutral-Milk-Hotel”

Mar 4, 2013 “An aircraft company discovered that it was cheaper to fly its planes with less fuel on board. The planes would be lighter and use less fuel and money was saved. On rare occasions, however, the amount of fuel was insufficient, and the plane…”
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Mar 14, 2013
The Story of Marty Stuart and the Rather Understated Jacket
David Crowder Band — A Collision (Or 3+4=7)
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Mar 18, 2013
Vein Of Stars
The Flaming Lips — At War With the Mystics

“I can never forget Kimiko's amazing rendition of this in the musical. Eric May y u no soundtrack?”

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Mar 20, 2013
Winter has been Wrapped
[voodoopony] — Beyond Equestria

“Nice work, everyone.”

Apr 15, 2013 “Full-disclosure is consistently entertaining: Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:18 -0700 From: Stefan Jon Silverman <sjs@example.com> -----BEGIN POPEYE (SPINACH) SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHAK's-SHORTS…”
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Apr 16, 2013
Those Who Are From The Sun Return To The Sun
Stardeath and White Dwarfs — The Birth

“D.j. Jordan Garrett Kruse”

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Apr 19, 2013
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2013 — Coachella, California
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Apr 24, 2013
Now I'm Learning to Love the War
Father John Misty — Fear Fun

“Try not to think so much about The truly staggering amount of oil that it takes to make a record All the shipping, the vinyl, the cellophane lining The high gloss The tape and the gear”

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Apr 28, 2013
Sitting
M83 — M83

“Let's gooooo”

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Apr 29, 2013
Major Label Debut (Fast)
Broken Social Scene — Broken Social Scene

“http://octavia.jfave.com/13/Major-Label-Debut--Fast--Broken-Social-Scene”

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Apr 30, 2013
Zombie by The Cranberries by Andrew Jackson Jihad
Andrew Jackson Jihad — Knife Man

“I wish to God I had some spare change for every time a perfect stranger asked me for some spare change But there's not enough spare change in the world to make such an empty gesture count.”

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May 13, 2013
Jenner La Fave added My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic to TV shows he's watched.
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May 13, 2013
Good Friend
Cloud Cult — Love

“And we can’t do this alone.”

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May 21, 2013
I Need My Girl
The National — Trouble Will Find Me

“New! The National with Justin Vernon! :D”

May 22, 2013 “Lemma: All horses are the same color. Proof (by induction): Case n = 1: In a set with only one horse, it is obvious that all horses in that set are the same color. Case n = k: Suppose you have a set of k+1 horses. Pull one of these horses…”
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May 28, 2013
Confessions
Violent Femmes — Violent Femmes
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Jun 1, 2013
Got It Together
Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra — Nancy & Lee Again (Remastered Version)

“I wish everyone would be... quiet. And nice. And don't throw rocks.”

Jun 2, 2013 “Watch: Canada High http://on.cc.com/12UMbCJ via @TheDailyShow iOS App http://on.cc.com/x8YWex”
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Jun 2, 2013
I Should Live in Salt
The National — Trouble Will Find Me

“http://octavia.jfave.com/23/I-Should-Live-in-Salt-The-National”

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Jun 7, 2013
Untitled (Dauðalagið)
Sigur Rós — ( )
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Jun 21, 2013
Transistor Radio
Cloud Cult — Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus

“"Where I've been, and where I am, is the show."”

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Jun 23, 2013
Moved to Cupertino, California — Cupertino, California
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Jun 27, 2013
Loud Pipes
Ratatat — Classics

“So great”

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Jul 8, 2013
Yoshimi Becomes a Pink Robot
The Flaming Lips — Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots B-Sides

“http://octavia.jfave.com/27/Yoshimi-Becomes-a-Pink-Robot-The-Flaming-Lips”

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Jul 9, 2013
Song Against Sex
Neutral Milk Hotel — On Avery Island

“And an eerieness surrounded When his tongue began to speak And he said, "Oh, boy, you are so pretty, Enough to wrap tight in rice-paper string"”

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Jul 11, 2013
The Rat
The Walkmen — Bows + Arrows

“http://octavia.jfave.com/29/The-Rat-The-Walkmen”

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Jul 14, 2013
The Big Issue
Chumbawamba — Tubthumper

“I only recognise two tunes: "Silent Night" and "God Save The Queen." And I only know which is which 'cause one of them, everybody stands up for.”

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Jul 14, 2013
Heaven
The Walkmen — Heaven
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Jul 16, 2013
Complicated Creation
Cloud Cult — Love

“You know you are as small as the things you let annoy you. And you know you are gigantic as the things that you adore. Some days you give thanks. Some days you give the finger. It's a complicated creation.”

Jul 16, 2013 “"When you only have a small number of users, you can sometimes get away with doing by hand things that you plan to automate later.... [If] manual components look to the user like software, this technique starts to have aspects of a…”
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Jul 26, 2013
Hidden Xs
Fuck Buttons — Slow Focus

“New album! :D”

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Aug 7, 2013
Especially Me
Low — C'mon

“http://octavia.jfave.com/39/Especially-Me-Low”

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Aug 12, 2013
All the Wine
The National — Alligator

“I'm a perfect piece of ass Like every Californian So tall I take over the street With high-beams shining on my back”

Aug 15, 2013 “"I don’t do any light reading. I only do heavy reading, and I don’t like to listen to music when I’m reading. But if I was reading Lord of the Rings, I might listen to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack. "I remember when I was reading Miles…”
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Aug 15, 2013
Ísjaki
Sigur Rós — Kveikur

“_Kveikur_ is a life-changing experience.”

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Aug 16, 2013
The Woods
Tall Firs — Tall Firs

“These guys opened for Jeff Mangum and it was great but they never said who they were and then Last.fm helped me rediscover them. http://octavia.jfave.com/45/The-Woods-Tall-Firs /coolstory”

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Aug 31, 2013
Young Blood
The Naked and Famous — Passive Me, Aggressive You

“http://octavia.jfave.com/46/Young-Blood-The-Naked-and-Famous”

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Sep 5, 2013
Start Shootin' (Little People's Americana Remix)
Little People — Unreleased Bits & Pieces, Pt. 2 - EP

“Does anybody know what the situation is?”

Sep 6, 2013 “Here's my PGP public key if anyone develops an urge to tell me their secrets: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: OpenPGP.js v.1.20130420 Comment: http://openpgpjs.org xsBNBFIEuDgBCACNKTpsyrawCquUlgEY+ggFwMBF/d/++j6NPDaePLTtaHqr…”
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Sep 9, 2013
Rock Me Now
Metric — Grow Up and Blow Away

“When she was 7 years old she saw a man get shot but no one came for a long time because it happened in a remote parking lot in Las Vegas. And she was waiting for her mom to come back from working the blackjack table at the Circus Circus casino. And that night her mom said that the two of them and the now dead guy were the only three people who ever really lived in Las Vegas. Everybody else just arrived, ate their complimentary shrimp cocktail, and left.”

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Sep 14, 2013
Down the Road
C2C — Tetra

“listen listen”

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Sep 19, 2013
Ba55
Switchfoot — Fading West - Single

“NEW”

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Oct 6, 2013
Ode To C.C. (Part II)
The Flaming Lips — Oh My Gawd!!! . . .

“This man came up to me just the other day He asked me if I'd been born again I told him I didn't think I had That I had been rejected But I think Hell's got all the good bands anyways.”

Oct 14, 2013 “"I ask Congress to give thoughtful consideration to legislation entitled appropriately, The Banana and Other Odd Fruit Disclosure and Reporting Act of 1967. The target is those banana-smoking beeatniks who seek make-belive-land ... as it…”
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Oct 16, 2013
Ísjaki
Sigur Rós — Kveikur

“Þú kveikir í mér Ég kveiki í þér Nú kveikjum við bál Brennisteinar (You turn me And I turn you Now covered in flames, We ignite like sulfur)”

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Oct 30, 2013
Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control
Tame Impala — Lonerism

“Maybe I'm just reading into it A little deeper than I should”

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Oct 31, 2013
You Lust
The Flaming Lips — The Terror

“(^^^)”

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Nov 1, 2013
40 Rods to the Hog's Head
Tera Melos — Drugs To The Dear Youth

“D.j. Jordan, Garrett Kruse, Chad Kruse, Eric May, Wesley Bailey... hang on to your butts.”

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Nov 5, 2013
Ghost
Neutral Milk Hotel — In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

“MAKE YOUR EARS HAPPY”

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Nov 6, 2013
Cranley's Gonna Make it
Broken Social Scene — Feel Good Lost

“Broken Social Scene”

Nov 21, 2013 “You're not a _real_ corporation until you have a massively shitty enterprise ticketing system that everybody uses and everybody hates.”
Dec 10, 2013 “LOL Arizona. "In 1999, undercover MCSO deputies arrested James Saville, then 18 years old, and charged him with plotting to kill Arpaio with a pipe bomb. A local television station had been tipped off to the arrest by the MCSO, and…”
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Dec 23, 2013
Moved to San Diego, California — San Diego, California
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Dec 26, 2013
Traveled to Boston, Massachusetts — Boston, Massachusetts
Jan 6, 2014 “"Time travel has captured the public imagination for much of the past century, but little has been done to actually search for time travelers. Here, three implementations of Internet searches for time travelers are described, all seeking a…”
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Jan 20, 2014
A Baby For Pree/Glow Into You
Jeff Mangum — Live At Jittery Joe's

“And with my little finger I could make it all crumble I could make it all over Before you would even know”

Feb 5, 2014 “Wͩ̔̌̾̈́ͧe͒ͮ̔ͫ̔r̈́̿͊̂ë̆̎ͪͦ̈̋ h̽ͮ̃̊̈́̋͊e̔̎͑ nͧ̾ͣ̒̍o̍̄̃w̉ͨ s͗ͮt̄̂͂͑i̇̏͒̔ͦl̔ͧͩl̑ ͗̐͆a̓m̑̐ͯoͣ̉͂ͯ̍̃ͯng͗̆̍̿̓ ͪ̓̐t̓h͂͒e̓̎̃ ̉̏̈́̾ͭlͦ̓ͩi͆̽v͌̊̽̑i̓̅̒n͛g̓ͤ̂͒ͭ,̽͐ͩ̍̑ D̂ͫ̓̚r͋̔.̓ ͐ͩÏ̔ͥͪnc̄ͤͭͧ͆ͨ̾a̔ͭ̋͐̽nͮ̀̿dͬͥ̑͌eͫ̆̌n̽̀́̋ͦ̾z̒̐á͛̌ ͆ͯͯ̚w̅̇͒ȯͬ̈̊͗uͯͬ͒͐͛lͮͪ͂̈͊d…”
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Feb 6, 2014
add image_src link tag to layout to make facebook happy deb1831

The Facebook-polish pass begins — an image_src link tag to make Facebook happy.

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Feb 6, 2014 use HTTPS rubygems bb0204c
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Feb 6, 2014
save album art locally instead of hotlinking lastfm 20a22f4

The commit this whole keepsake depends on: save album art locally instead of hotlinking Last.fm. Years later Last.fm’s image servers vanished — and the only reason any of these covers still exist to embed here is this one change.

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Feb 6, 2014 make album art on track page bigger 1b8a083
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Feb 6, 2014 add gem lockfil c376969
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Feb 6, 2014
Get Away
Yuck — Yuck

“Break it down and then break it up again Me and my guitar drowning down and down Not even the pain kicks in Tell me when the pain kicks in”

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Feb 6, 2014 add gem lockfile b7f10a0
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Feb 6, 2014
add opengraph stuff 84c3b25

Real OpenGraph meta tags (og:title, og:url, og:image) — the heart of the whole idea, finally formalized.

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Feb 6, 2014 keep the /public/album_art directory 16a5499
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Feb 12, 2014
We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Foxygen — We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic

“"The band has recently gained a reputation for its unhinged live shows and maniacal behavior of lead singer France, whose antics include hitting himself in the face with a microphone, climbing stage equipment, accosting hecklers and speaking in non sequiturs."”

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Feb 14, 2014
Runway, Houses, City, Clouds
The Flaming Lips — Peace and Paranoia - EP

“FLAME IMPALA http://octavia.jfave.com/73/Runway--Houses--City--Clouds-The-Flaming-Lips”

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Mar 4, 2014 “A friend of mine is looking for a WordPress dev, sysadmin, and "salesforce expert" (whatever that means) to do some subcontract work on an upcoming project. Details are below — comment or message me if you are interested. ---- The…”
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Mar 6, 2014
I Slept With Bonhomme at the CBC
Broken Social Scene — Feel Good Lost

“This album makes me feel feels.”

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Mar 18, 2014
Runway Houses City Clouds
Tame Impala — InnerSpeaker

“And don't remind me of home or I might notice where I am It's true that some things have to change”

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Mar 19, 2014
Synthaholic
Brock Berrigan — Finding Time

“"Where'd you come from? You look pregnant." "I am pregnant. I'm not even going to ask what you men are doing out here in your matching pajamas, by the way."”

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Mar 23, 2014
Moved to Santa Clara, California — Santa Clara, California
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Apr 1, 2014
Ziggy Stardust
Seu Jorge — The Life Aquatic - Studio Sessions featuring Seu Jorge
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Apr 8, 2014
Rebellion (Lies)
Arcade Fire — Funeral

“Sleeping is giving in / So lift those heavy eyelids”

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Apr 19, 2014
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2014 — Empire Polo
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Apr 23, 2014
Pure Pain
Kurt Vile — Wakin On a Pretty Daze

“Pitchfork: "Vile's music has exuded this unique stoner-Yoda wisdom from the very beginning, even if you weren't searching for it. His sound — warm, unhurried, and spacious — doesn't demand close focus, but one of the joys of being pulled into Vile's lonely, contented universe is in discovering that he is muttering sharply self-aware things to himself. It adds another layer to Vile's appeal; seduced by the soothing, watery-blue glimmer of that sound, which promised to make you feel like the only human in the universe, you slowly realized there's actually one other guy here, and he's kind of a wiseass."”

Apr 29, 2014 “I think that I shall never see A graph more lovely than a tree. A tree whose crucial property Is loop-free connectivity. A tree that must be sure to span So packets can reach every LAN. First, the root must be selected. By ID, it is…”
May 30, 2014 “He rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound Of many links without a break, In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake, All intervolv’d and spreading wide, Like water-dimples down a tide Where ripple ripple overcurls And eddy…”
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Jun 9, 2014
Brakes On (Gordini Mix)
Air — Premiers symptômes

“groovy grooves ”

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Jun 14, 2014
Tenuousness
Andrew Bird — Noble Beast

“Tenuous at best was all he had to say When pressed about the rest of it (the world that is) From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to Porto-centric Lisboans Greek Cypriots and hobis-hots who hang around in ports a lot Here's where things start getting weird While chinless men will scratch their beards And to their minds a sharpened axe Is brushed upon the Uralic syntaxes Love of hate acts as an axis Love of hate acts as an axis First it wanes and then it waxes So procreate and pay your taxes”

Jun 25, 2014 “Hey everyone, My team at Apple is looking for an atypical intern for an atypical internship starting in September. We'd love it if they could stay at least 6 months, but we can be flexible. The details are below; inbox me if you're…”
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Jul 7, 2014
The Apocalypse Song
St. Vincent — Marry Me

“I guess you are afraid of what everyone is made of”

Jul 8, 2014 “It was on one of my journeys between the EDSAC room and the punching equipment that "hesitating at the angles of stairs" the realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in…”
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Jul 11, 2014
Is David Bowie Dying?
The Flaming Lips with Neon Indian — The Flaming Lips with Neon Indian

“well”

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Jul 31, 2014
show artwork_missing if lastfm didn't give us album art 38d657f

Show artwork_missing when Last.fm came back empty. The last real feature.

Aug 12, 2014 “Some routing tables hit 512K today and quite a few routers have been unable to cope. http://www.nux.ro/archive/2014/08/512k_routes_ought_to_be_enough_for_everyone.html”
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Aug 25, 2014
Sleep All Summer
St. Vincent and The National — Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers!
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Sep 4, 2014
Moved to Mountain View, California — Mountain View, California
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Sep 5, 2014
Oh My God
St. Vincent — Actor

“The dishes in the sink Don't care if I wake late Or soak till the bath goes cold Leave the bed unmade”

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Sep 8, 2014
Numbers
FKA twigs — LP1
Sep 26, 2014 “"Our lives are full of grim reminders of our own mortality and the fallibility of man. We, as a society, require the infallible. At a time they were fictional characters. At another they were athletes and celebrities. And since 2007 it's…”
Oct 4, 2014 “"Before blaming the victims for their poor infection control measures, put yourself in their shoes. A five year old—perhaps your five year old—is feverish and vomiting. She is crying and holding her arms out to you for comfort, for help…”
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Oct 21, 2014
Oh, I'm a Wrecker (What to Say to Crazy People)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow — Sea When Absent

“Come get your wrecker!”

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Oct 26, 2014
Quit ♨
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Nov 6, 2014
Take 5, D.
Minutemen — Double Nickels on the Dime

“Water drips from all around Cathy’s ceiling, my ceiling Don’t use shower Don’t use shower”

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Nov 13, 2014
Be Free, A Way
The Flaming Lips — The Terror

“Did God make pain so we can know the high that nothing is?”

Nov 13, 2014 “Fortune's nomination for All-Time Champion and Protector of Youthful Morals goes to Representative Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan. During an impassioned House debate over a proposed bill to "expand oyster and clam research," a sharp-eared…”
Dec 21, 2014 “I'm pretty impressed that the DoD has enough faith in Raytheon's engineering prowess and their own OPSEC to position remotely programmable drone blimps capable of launching Hellfire missiles directly over the capital. Innovation!…”
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Mar 29, 2015
Traveled to Recife, Brazil — Recife, Brazil
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Apr 16, 2015
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2015 — Empire Polo
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Nov 21, 2015
In a Relationship with Tessa Hunt
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Five years later, the only visitor left was Dependabot.

The rest of the library

Tracks octavia still remembers that never made it to a Facebook post.

Time Travel...YES!! (With Steven Michael Burns)
The Flaming Lips
Battle Without Honor or Humanity
Tomoyasu Hotei
Burn Bridges
The Grates
Be a Body (侘寂)
Grimes feat. Doldrums
Window
The Album Leaf
Go Do
Jónsi
Offspring Are Blank
Dirty Projectors
About to Die
Dirty Projectors
Tubthumping
Chumbawamba
Complicated Creation
Cloud Cult
I Should Live in Salt
The National
1/1
Brian Eno
Fake Empire
The National
Mirando (Yacht Remix) [Bonus Track]
Ratatat
C'mon C'mon
Switchfoot
More to Come
Tall Firs
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Tame Impala
Telephone
The Black Angels
Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2
Neutral Milk Hotel
Hidden Xs
Fuck Buttons
Moonchild
M83
Get Away
Yuck
Get Away
Yuck
The Ego's Last Stand
The Flaming Lips
Eple (Original Edit)
Röyksopp
Enthusiasm For Life Defeats Existential Fear...
The Flaming Lips
Today More Than Any Other Day
Ought
Lists, Plans
A Sunny Day In Glasgow
Boys Turn into Girls (Initiation Rites)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Now, Now
St. Vincent
Get Up
Tommy And The High Pilots
Somebody Make a Move
Tommy And The High Pilots
Get Up
Tommy And The High Pilots
Get Up
Tommy And The High Pilots
A Postcard to Nina
Jens Lekman
Heat Death Infinity Splitter
65daysofstatic
FFunny FFrends
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Maple Leaves (EP Version)
Jens Lekman
Mashin' on the Motorway
DJ Shadow
Sailing Through
Neutral Milk Hotel
Westwood feat. Dislotec
Breakmaster Cylinder
Hey Light
Animal Collective