My Life Story is Boring, My Music Is Not
I’m self-effacing and realistic enough to know none of you are particularly interested in the mundane details of my; my mundane tasks probably not all that different than your own. Rather than bore you with that, I offer my reading public a running tab on what I’ve listened to so far today:
- Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris — All The Roadrunning
- Morphine — Cure For Pain
- Morphine — Good
- Ryan Adams — Easy Tiger
- Sarah McLachlan — Surfacing
There have been a few loose album tracks (I listened to something from A Fine Frenzy before dialing in to Sarah Mc), but the trend of the last few days has been complete albums. I go through phases. Sometimes I don’t have the discipline or attention span to listen all the way through an album, and then there are times like now where it’s the only way I want to listen to music.
The other part of the “album” concept has a long, mundane history. What? You do want to hear it? OK, here goes. Being a complete moron, I screwed up migrating my iTunes library from my laptop to the external hard drive and all my playcounts got reset. I don’t know how many years of playcounts went out the window (at least two) and they’re all gone. The good news, if you can call it that, is that my disaster struck New Year’s Day. That means whatever I do accumulate (assuming no further fuckups) will tell my 2008 story. For some reason, that’s caused me to want to listen to albums all the way through. I don’t know why, other than I’m an obsessive dork.
Filed under: Tags: Morphine, Ryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan
I completely understand. I recently switched my Ipod to using playlists to update and now Itunes is keeping track of my listening. I now feel this ridiculous pressure to listen to ALL songs on EVERY album that I cue up because I feel like, now that Itunes is truly tracking my every move, it will be unfair to not give a play to all those songs on all those albums that I like as a whole. I also feel guilty about all of those “my favorite albums of all Ever” that I haven’t listened to since I started doing this back in the fall that look like I have never listened to them. Yes, you’re right - this is total music dorkery. They make medications for this, you know.
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I don’t think there’s a medication that can cure our dorky obsession, Tom. That’s why we have these web sites. Why fight it? I’m embracing my inner music dork.
I confess that I often think about how much I wish I could have the playcounts for everything since I scored my first iPod four years ago (or however long). Just think of the history! *sigh* I’m trying to be excited about being able to track my annual listening but I’m just not.
A Public Service Announcement: Don’t take the easy bait here. I’ve not slept in 22 hours and my sense of humor is gone. I’m ruthlessly deleting anything that goes up my ass sideways (you know who you are).
I have a playlist that is nothing but songs I haven’t listened to since I started letting itunes track what I listen to. It is an obsession to get that thing down to zero. Sometimes I’ll skip songs I love simply because I’ve already listened to them before.
All this begs the question: What would you have to do so that your life story is not boring anymore?
he needs to go back and start taking those line-dancing lessons he used to love so much.
yeee-haw!
Nothing can change the boring nature of the past, but I can think of a few things that would make the present and future more exciting. Among them: an impossibly large iceberg crashing into the state of New Hampshire. I don’t know why that came to me.
Other than that, Sahm, a cameo from you and S.Rod on B-Sides tonight would remove a hint of boredom.
that’s it, i’m removing that picture of you from my website.
Let me pour some milk on your emo flakes, Sir Saleski.
Wouldn’t the Monadnock region be outside of iceberg crash range? I digress. My geography sucks.
A cameo may be hard to pull off tonight because I have to do some work in preparation for the carpet contractor on Saturday AM. But I will try to finish early.