I’ve been working on a story all day, it’s midnight and I am still not at the end of my notes. It’s not good to be writing so late at night.

During my last five minute break I discovered last.fm. It’s only been about 15 minutes but I am already sold. Basically, you download a very simple player, type in the name of an artist/band you like and it tailors the following selection of music to your taste. You can even download a plugin that monitors your listening habits on iTunes and makes your last.fm station even better.

If like me you have 30 gig of music and are still stuck for something to listen to fairly often, you might like this.

UPDATE: Thanks to Bill who just recommended a similar service called Pandora (via Terry Teachout) that doesn’t require downloading a player. Looks good to me, although as Bill points out there’s no classical music which last.fm does offer.