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music tastes link to personality

according to an article on the bbc website today, if you like indie music then your personality can be summarised as "low self-esteem, creative, not hard working, not gentle". not gentle?! try telling that to all those sarah records fans.

i've always wondered why i like the music i do, apart from that it's all really good of course. the only real link i can see is that none of it is very happy sounding. which must make me a miserable bastard. great.

in other news, here's an interesting graphic from the new york times analysing the frequency of words used by democrats and republicans at their respective conventions. god.