I Have 26.8 Days' Worth of Music on my iTunes and Counting . . .
What if I declared a moratorium on buying any more new music until I'd thoroughly listened to all the stuff I already own? Think I could stick with it? I don't. But maybe I should give it a try.
Seriously. I look around at all the cds I have and all the music in my library--according to my iTunes, I have 26.8 days' worth of music--and I'm astounded. I could play it continuously and not repeat a song for almost four weeks. Oh. My. God.
Some albums I've only ever played one time. Some not even all the way through. Yet I'm constantly on the search for something new.
So I've decided I'm going to go through and listen to the stuff that I never gave a proper listen before I buy any more. It's kind of exciting, actually. Sort of like an adventure. Who knows what's in store?
Architecture in Helsinki--"What's In Store?" mp3 off In Case We Die (buy) This isn't a very good example of music I've not listened to, as I've listened to this song a thousand times, but it is a great title tie-in.
Funny story. My son and I share a computer, and he was complaining to me that my music library takes up too much disk space. He said, What do you need all that music for? You never listen to it. And I said, Well, I need each and every one of those songs in my catalog just in case I need to use one of them in a post. He didn't seem to understand. He thinks it's a great big waste of space. So I asked him how much music he has in his library, and he said, I have 23 songs--but I listen to every single one!
That's so true it's scary. I keep bringing my computer to the brink of
exhaustion with all the music I've got on there (and on my external
harddrive), and I know I'll never get around to all of it (and keep adding
more to it that I'll never finish listening to, from friends and mp3 blogs
and the like). Good luck trying not to add more and listen to what you've
got -- I don't know if I could handle that. I'm pretty proud of myself for
deleting my stuff down to 21 days (and that was a painful deletion rampage
of stuff I kinda wish I had back, though I'd never get around to it).
221 days of music on itunes, but I am a little older.
ginny--i know, i think it's a sickness. ;-) i just feel guilty about it
every once in a while, so i thought i should at least try!
Your son's reaction reminds me of a period when I stopped reading new books
and just re-read the same three books over and over. My view was that all
the wisdom I needed was contained in those three books and that anything
else would be a distraction. I was wrong, by the way.
lyle--i guess i could try saying: i am not a music store, or i am not a
radio, only i don't think that's going to help! my son is funny. he's very
opinionated but in an extremely logical way. he really can't relate to why
i want all that music. i'm sure in time he'll relax his standards a bit. i
hope!
mjrc, can you imagine how great those 26.8 days would be, if you just put
your whole library on shuffle and proceeded through those tracks one at a
time? Disc space gets cheaper all the time, but the value of music never
goes down - it is the language of the soul.
wre--are you singing this fall? i can't, but i asked the maestro if i could
come in to a couple rehearsals just so i could sing a bit of the brahms . .
. it's such a lovely, lovely work.
I'm on the fence about it. I feel more pressed for time than ever, and
selfishly perhaps, my current schedule has me out for a run early on Monday
and Tuesday mornings, making late rehearsals a bit of a problem. So, I'm
trying to figure out a creative solution, especially since I continue to
hope that I will have more important things to do with my time
(unselfishly) one of these days not to far off...
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