Even though trying to keep track of the nearly 64 hours of music that are stored in A Fistful of Soundtracks' "Assorted Fistful" playlist (plus the two hours of music that make up AFOS' "Rock Box" playlist) can occasionally be a hassle, running AFOS(*) is a pretty simple task. I just hit "Shuffle" and Live365.com does the rest.
(*) It's AFOS. No bloody FOS or FFOS. It's always been AFOS. I've always wanted to shorten it to just AFOS because the acronym AFOS can stand for many different phrases besides A Fistful of Soundtracks, and I once jotted down a list of 12 of them (examples: "Ample Focus on Scores" and my personal favorite, "Asians Fucking Owning Shit"). The current iTunes Radio description of "Fistful of Soundtracks" is nine years old (it's taken from a summary of AFOS that I typed into Live365.com when I first launched AFOS over there in 2002, back when Live365 wouldn't let radio stations have names longer than 22 letters for some stupid reason). iTunes has never bothered to replace the old description with a present-day one.
Sometimes, weird things I have no control over start to happen on AFOS when it's in shuffle mode.
Mel Gibson, who's so famously fond of Jews, gets followed by a Jew.
Yeah, I like "Eye of the Tiger" too, Live365, but I don't like it as much as you do apparently.
Same thing with the movie Wild Things...
... or the end credits music from Thor.
Two different incarnations of Batman getting streamed back-to-back always amuses me...
... as does Angel, Batman and Zorro getting streamed in the same hour. (Angel is like the Batman of the Whedonverse. Batman was modeled partly after Zorro. Also, in DC's pre-"New 52" continuity--I'm not sure if it's been changed in the current continuity--Bruce Wayne lost his parents to a mugger after they attended a Mark of Zorro screening. If it were a Legend of Zorro screening, all three Waynes would have lost the will to live and killed themselves afterward.)
Live365 occasionally does screwy things to the Bollywood-centric "Chai Noon" block. Das racist!
Shuffle mode sometimes results in nifty unintentional double shots or triple shots like:
Brian Tyler Fast and the Furious sequel theme double shots.
Pam Grier movie theme double shots.
Jim Kelly movie theme double shots.
Themes from movies about Bruce Lee movies getting streamed in the same hour.
Battlestar Galactica/Star Trek double shots.
Galaxy Quest/Star Trek double shots.
Trek/Galactica/Galaxy Quest triple shots.
J.J. Abrams/Michael Giacchino collabo triple shots.
Christopher Nolan/Hans Zimmer collabo double shots.
End credits music quadruple shots.
"Movies with Run in the title" double shots.
"Unexpectedly gory L.A. movies" double shots.
Live365 once caused a weird pattern in which a theme from a Spike Lee Joint ended up getting followed by a Cowboy Bebop track--twice in a row. I hope someone on Deviantart was listening to AFOS during that hour and thought about drawing a Spike Lee/Spike Spiegel mash-up someday. Make it happen, Internet!
Wilfred the Matt Damon-loving dog must have tried to sabotage Live365 during this hour.
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