In Praise of Randomness

I’m a big fan of randomness – under controlled circumstances, of course. Actually, only under one circumstance.

I’ll start again.

I’m a big fan of setting my music player to “random” or “shuffle” mode. I have what some would call eclectic tastes, and my library reflects that: if a music player were to truly play random songs from my library I might hear a classic blues number followed by a hard-core death metal song followed by some house or trance stuff followed by some old school (or new school) rap/R&B, followed by some Afro Jazz, followed by… well, you get the idea. There’s a lot of stuff in there.