Music Junky (Junkie?)

I thought of a silly idea while I was driving home from Upper Darby tonight. This idea covers two goals that I have been intending to reach for awhile now. The first goal has been that I need to start writing more than just private journal entries. Yet when I try to write other things, I get overwhelmed with trying to formulate what I want to say into actual grammatically correct sentences and paragraphs. I am so out of practice that I've been struggling with spelling (this is big for me). Its pretty sad really. I used to be able to bang out ten page papers like they were nothing with barely any grammatical errors. Now it takes me an hour to write a couple of crappy paragraphs for a blog that I'm obviously not getting graded on.

Anyway, the second goal I have of the many that I don't reach is that I want to listen through my whole music library to see what I should actually continue to keep and what I should delete/throw out/send to a better home. I want to do this before continuing to add new music almost rabidly, which is what I normally do. I don't have a ridiculously large collection, but its pretty sizeable. I would tell you how much music I have in Itunes days in order to impress you, but my laptop took its final plunge to death. So, I am left with the CD's (mostly burned copies) that have taken up residence in my car, the CD's stacked in my bedroom, a couple albums I downloaded onto my Dad's computer, and a good chunk of my digital music library that I had the sense to back up on a portable hard drive. So, I'm merging these two goals by making myself listen to all my music, (however long it takes) whenever I'm in my car, and then writing about the albums I listen to. It will mostly just be little blurbs about when the album came out and any associations I might have with it. If I still actually like the band or singer I might share some of my favorite songs or links to their myspace/purevolume website. I'm going to start with those CD's that are already in my car. They might seem to be in a quasi- sort of alphabetical order, but only for a little while because I never keep up with those kinds of systems for very long. 3 Doors Down is currently in my CD player but I have not finished listening to the whole album yet so I won't start writing about that one until possibly tomorrow night. Oh yeah, and I'm making the rule that I'm not allowed to skip songs unless the CD is really scratched or I need to by moral obligation. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be really tired of FIF and U2 by the end of this. Alright, that's it for now. Hasta luego.