Apple has this new feature on iTunes, iPhone, iEtc called Genius. The Apple website says

Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. With a few clicks, the new Genius feature finds the songs in your library that go great together and makes a Genius playlist for you. You can listen to the playlist right away, save it for later, or even refresh it and give it another go. Count on Genius to create a mix you wouldn’t have thought of yourself.

Turns out it is perfect for my sadsack, generally suck-filled life. This is the playlist I just got after selecting Divorce Song by Liz Phair.

• Liz Phair - Divorce Song
• Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
• Neko Case - Deep Red Bells
• The Pixies - La La Love You
• Pavement - Gold Soundz
• The New Pornographers - Letter From an Occupant
• The Afghan Whigs - My Curse
• Sleater-Kinney - Oh!
• Cyndi Lauper - When You Were Mine (Prince Cover)
• The Mountain Goats - This Year
• Neko Case - The Needle Has Landed
• Pavement - Spit on a Stranger
• Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All
• Sleater-Kinney - Modern Girl
• Ryan Adams - Burning Photographs
• Lemonheads - Confetti
• Pavement - Cut Your Hair
• Neko Case - If You Knew
• Liz Phair - Never Said
• The Mountain Goats - Love Love Love

An hour+ of tunes for me to sulk by! Thank goodness for whatever miserable motherfucker algorithm the smarties at Apple came up with. Thanks Genius!

Are you freaking kidding me? Bitch needs $40K by October 15th to stay afloat. This is a travesty. If my checking account wasn’t currently overdrawn $115, I’d be sending them some skrill right now. You know I’ll be heading over to their donation page when pay day rolls around.

Molly Mayhem gave me my first issue of Bitch in late 2000 (Issue #11). I was floored. Smart, funny, modern feminist commentary on all that pop culture I can’t help but be in a very complicated love/hate relationship with. I subscribed shortly after and have renewed my subscription every year since. It is actually pretty surprising a magazine as smart, poignant and unapologetically feminist as Bitch has survived this long. Let’s not let the old girl down.

Please, please, please let there be enough change hanging around at the bottom of my purse to buy a cheap bottle of wine from Trader Joe’s on my way home from work.