What some might not have known is that John Mellencamp used the Fun Frolic as the setting for his 1985 music video for “Lonely Ol’ Night” (embedding was disabled )

Something cool I learned yesterday from my mom is that my Uncle Ray is actually in the video! Check him and his then-girlfriend out at around 2:46

My Uncle Ray makes a cameo in a John Mellencamp video

I thought it was a little trivia that should be shared with the world. I don’t know how I never heard about the Fun Frolic until this year or how I’d gone my entire life without knowing my uncle was in a music video!

I wanted something that I could invoke with Quicksilver to control how often it posted what I was listening to Twitter and also wanted it to be automated from there. Would a Growl notification be too much to ask for to top it off? Here’s my edited version of TwiTunes:

– get properties of the playing track

tell application “iTunes”

set thisTrack to current track

set trackName to the name of thisTrack

set trackArtist to thisTrack’s artist

end tell

– change the status message to your liking here:

set tweet to “Listening to \”" & trackName & “\” by ” & trackArtist & “.”

– get login from keychain

tell application “Keychain Scripting”

set twitter_key to first Internet key of current keychain whose server is “twitter.com”

set twitter_login to quoted form of (account of twitter_key & “:” & password of twitter_key)

end tell

– post to twitter

set twitter_status to quoted form of (“status=” & tweet)

set results to do shell script “curl –user ” & twitter_login & ” –data-binary ” & twitter_status & ”

http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json”

– notify growl

tell application “GrowlHelperApp”

set the allNotificationsList to {“Tweet iTunes Success”, “Tweet iTunes Failed”, “Results”}

set the enabledNotificationsList to {“Tweet iTunes Success”}

register as application “TwiTunes” all notifications allNotificationsList default notifications enabledNotificationsList

notify with name “Tweet iTunes Success” title “Twitter Updated w/ iTunes Track” description tweet application name “TwiTunes”

end tell

If I knew more (read: any) AppleScript, I would have thrown in some sort of check to see if the tweet was successful and growl notify accordingly, but I’m only one man. If anyone could add that feature, it would be greatly appreciated!

Download script

To use the script drop it in some place like

~/Library/iTunes/scripts/TwiTunes.scpt

or

~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions/TwiTunes.scpt

and then point Quicksilver to it in the preferences by going to Catalog and then adding the file under Custom. (Might be a better way, but that’s surefire) Enjoy!