Writer's Block: Top ten playlist

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As a kid it was The Beatles, the Stones, the Beach Boys, those '60s bands - but too wide a selection to narrow down to a top 10.

Today (in no particular orderr) it's the Beatles (some things just never die), anything classical, Celtic music of all types, New Age, Ethnic tunes (I love Ah Du, for example, and Ebru Gündes, and Minamino Youko (I'm a bit behind the times, but that's OK), Bluegrass (Del McCoury is wonderful), Theatre Organ (George Wright, Gaylord Carter, David Reese, among others), Rondo' Veneziano, Jan-Edward Vogels, still love the Carpenters and Simon & Garfunkel...

Add to that a bunch of music from groups like Trans-siberian Orchestra, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, My Chemical Romance, Dead Can Dance, Weezer, Green Day, Sting, (I owe my kids big time for expanding my horizons) - the list goes on and on. There's a tune for every mood... and I haven't even scratched the surface! About the only things I can't really listen to are the heaviest metal, or rap.

Dear Amazon: I don't think so

Amazon.com has this little device where you can enter a PayPhrase and make purchases across the web without divulging your Credit Card number.

OK, sez I, not a bad idea. So I enter a phrase that absolutely NO ONE could have possibly ever chosen before this time, worlds without end: "Antediluvian Aardvark Hqiz".

And Amazon tells me, "Important Message: Sorry! The Payphrase you chose is no longer available. We have some similar suggestions for you, or you can enter your own phrase below."

The only requirements are "PayPhrase must be at least 2 words long, no numbers or special characters". Which conditions I dutifully met. For fun, I entered some other phrases that I knew were unduplicatable as they contained other words that I have made up. Also no go.

So I guess this is a feature I'm not going to be using...