Mental Nomad Podcast 143: Celebrity Crush Edition

There's about a 50-50 chance this is the last M4A-format episode for a couple of months, anyway; at least one longtime supporter is having trouble with non-MP3 tracks. The long-term plan is to switch to BlueHost next year and set up separate feeds for MP3 and M4A.

Today's episode (right-click to download or open in a new tab or window) features these music tracks:

1. Dragonette: "I Get Around"
2. E-Zel: "Libertas"
3. Heather Edwards: "Escape"
4. Dragonette: "Pick Up the Phone"
5. Bethany & Rufus: "St. James Infirmary"
6. The Apples in Stereo: "Go"
7. Beth Bombara and the Robotic Foundation: "Conversation"
8. Alex Cuba: "Amor Infinito"
9. Heather Edwards: "Song About Nothing"
10. The Apples in Stereo: "High Tide"
11. Beth Bombara: "Abandon Ship"

... And I offer up a few words about no fewer than a dozen of my celebrity crushes, with embedded links to Internet Movie Database entries, fan pages, official Web sites, even the MySpace profile of one actress. I'm not sure if these links work for iPod Touch and iPhone users, but I do know they work in Quicktime if you listen to/watch the episode in a browser window.

(Total play time: 1:05:29)

Tracks 1, 4, 6 and 10 are courtesy of the IODA Promonet and may be downloaded at the Blogger site for as long as their promotions remain in effect; tracks 2, 3, 7, 9 and 11 are courtesy of Ariel Publicity; track 5 is courtesy of Music Alley; and track 8 is featured by arrangement with Rock Paper Scissors.

And, again, I hope to get a double feed going in the next few months, because I think there are potentially very cool uses and abuses for this sort of enhanced file format. Pod Across America would be a logical place to do things like this -- linking to travel and news sites from a given state, or to YouTube feeds from someone who regularly does outdoor video entries in a given state, for example.