I need to stop and listen to music more. I forget to.. or play it in the backgroud while I’m doing something else. I stretched out on my floor the other day and just listened to my music.. it was amazing how inspired I felt afterwards. MUST DO MORE OFTEN!

I got the CD “Raising Sand” and I love it. I’m going to have to get more Allison Krauss music.

Well, since I got my usb turntable I can listen to all of my old lps again. I haven’t listened to some of them in over 10 years and there are some I’m not sure if I want to hear them again.

Mark Erelli has a cover of Bill Morrissey’s “Birches” on his web site that can be downloaded or just played. It’s a great song!
http://www.markerelli.com/index.php?page=songs&display=180

I got the new Beatles cd “Love” for Christmas. I listened to it yesterday and I like it. It’s a different mix on many of their songs. A few of the mixes I don’t especially care for but all in all it’s a good CD.

I love having an iPod. I listen to music a LOT more. I’m going to back up my files to CD so I can listen to them at home as well. Yay music!! I’m so happy to be listening to new bands and old favorites again.

Brian suprised me with the new Tom Waits CD

I’ve been wearing that shit out. (in a good way:o)

Music used to be my life.

I used to eat/sleep/breathe music.

over the past few years for some unknown reason i have slowly stopped listening to music

Who knows why.

it seems as though my happiness has decreased for some unknown reason slowly over the past few years as well

Coincidence?

i decided to find out :o)

The things I found this goal required:

1) an imperceptible change in me – a reversing of “loss of self” that I had for a long time, one that fatigued me from even bothering with music because keeping up is so much trouble and so annoying, too

2) learning how to power-use iTunes

3) finally getting high-speed wireless at home so I can listen to Last.fm

4) having a few musician friends, which keeps me from being wimpy about music, and also cautions against being a weenie!

5) having the shame to not be a groupie or allow myself to continue saying “I want to play music” without taking steps to do something about it. And listening is the first step to doing.

6) Living in a city where the music scene kicks ass, which instigates a near-future goal of seeing at least 2 live shows per month. Back in the college-station-music-directorship day, it was more like 2 a week. But I was a tragically hip (not the band, the character trait) music weenie and groupie then, and now I am not!

I would also like to add that Salon.com has a good music blog, Audiophile, but I’ve been pseudo-paying-attention to it for a long time, only getting a month’s songs in one swoop – so it’s not integral to my actually listening more often. It IS, however, a good source of discovery.

surrounding the location scouting I am doing, someone I intended to get in touch with anyway, his wife who just came back from Iceland, the bar he co-owns, and the music festival he started up: Pop Montreal. It’s on this week, from Wednesday to Sunday, and I think I’ll squeeze in a few volunteer shifts just to I’m going to a show by The Stars singer, who I heard on Last.fm today, and some other dude on Thursday night (not part of the Pop lineup), and Friday night I’m seeing Roky Erickson with another friend of mine. Thurs. it looks like I’m going it alone, so maybe I’ll meet some people. ETA (Oct. 6): I did meet people. Stay tuned to any one of my goals, if anything changes in the next few weeks.

I got on my iTunes today for about 2.5 hours and went crashing through the various files on my laptop to get them in there and rate them. It is not done, it will never be done, it’s an ongoing thing but I’ve gotten a good roll on it so I’m happy. I’m also bringing on my old data CDs of MP3s to make sure I have them all in there, and then I’ll chuck ‘em or put them in cold storage against a disk failure.

Then I hooked up the speakers I borrowed from my DJ friend last party I had, up on top of my entertainment unit downstairs. I’ve only been able to listen to music on the main floor, not in my bedroom. Now I can! And it’s GreaT! but I have to pull the unit out and check the wires thoroughly because it seems I can’t have both sets of speakers on at the same time, or it gives me a Safety shut down of either the speakers or the amplifier. That means a wire must be crossed or something.

At one point I’ll have to give the speakers back, or buy them, but hopefully I’ll have my Voigt pipe speaker project underway by then.

I got to sing along to Ben Folds Five tonight!