This is a hack that reminds me a lot of "LiveJournal" blogs, and I know many MT users long for it.
So, Scott has made the hack. This one is not for the faint of heart, but it looks very snazzy when you are finished.
Read Scott's Tutorial here.
BTW, you must be using the mySQL database flava of MoveableType to use this tweak.
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1 | J : Da Blog
February 20th, 2003 at 4:30 am
November 24th, 2002 at 3:28 am
3 | Crys
November 15th, 2003 at 12:35 pm
Ack, this hack isn't up on his site anymore, you should post it here 
4 | Megalion
Here's the ExtraFields Plugin that Scott's hack uses in answer to my above question.
http://www.staggernation.com/mtplugins/ExtraFieldsReadMe.html
Glad to see you got things worked out with GoDaddy Scott!
5 | Jessy
I click on the link and I don't get anything: Page not found. 
Any where else I can get the hack?
6 | Jennifer
ah yes… the disadvantages of not storing code on my own site. It looks as though Scott took his site down.
I'll see if I can track down an email address for him…
7 | Donna
This thread on the MT support forums offers a couple of alternatives for the mood hack; apparently it's come and gone before, so people have found workarounds. Hope this helps!
8 | Megalion
Thanks Scott!
I feel for you cause your site now appears to have been taken down by GoDaddy… I get a GoDaddy titled page that asks for the owner of the site to please call a phone number.
I did however have the presence of mind to print the page in question but my problem now is I can't figure out where that "ExtraFeilds Plugin/Hack" is located because A) I'm not sure if the typo in "fields" was intentional or not, and B) the name is ambiguous enough that there might be two separately authored versions out there?
I checked MT-Plugins.org but didn't find it listed there so can you (Scott) or anyone else point me to the one Scott is talking about?
Thanks
9 | Scott
sorry about that, show be fixed now, haven't been online in days, kinda falling behind, and having some domain problems. but as i said it should work now
10 | Megalion
Whoops… sorry I wasn't paying attention and mistakenly thought that Scott was one of the authors on this site.
11 | Megalion
Excellent! Now only if the link worked I could learn how to do this!
*hint hint*
Thanks in advance…
12 | Donna
Megalion, the link appears to be affected by a parse error right now on Scott's site; it's a backend problem out of Scripty control You could try reviewing this thread on the MT support forums for some good alternatives – the tutorial also seems to come and go (and come back!) on a regular basis, so I'd keep trying.
13 | allison
has anyone seen a hack like that that will work with the berkley db?? I dont have Mysql
allison.
14 | reese
Or how about one that doesn't use MySQL? It's mentioned on the details page that there are others out there that can do this without MySQL, but I haven't had luck finding them. Anyone have a link?
thanks
15 | Donna
November 20th, 2002 at 2:47 pm
Hee. You said "flava." You rock, Promo! So does this very cool tweak…
16 | Scott
November 20th, 2002 at 5:05 pm
wow, this is so sweet, i read scriptygoddess ever day and now i am on the page, lol, well there is a point to my post! yup, i updated some of the code to fix some bugs and make it easier to read and understand some stuff. so if you did it and something didn't work check back now, or send me a e-mail
17 | John
November 21st, 2002 at 12:55 am
I've just been doing this the easy way on my blog I suppose… simply typing the 'Listening To' into the excerpt text box (that I'd otherwise never use) and having the [$MTEntryExcerpt$] in my template right between the [$MTEntryTitle$] and [$MTEntryBody$].
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