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Music: Rambling and A POLL
Sep. 7th, 2007 11:35 amI can't stand coffee. And yet I'm drinking it in an attempt to get warm. Why I didn't go with one of the 8 types of tea we have in the cafeteria, I don't know. I suppose butter pecan coffee sounded good - unfortunately it tastes nothing like butter pecan ice cream, which I love. Figures. Yesterday I drank hot chocolate, which we also have, but...well, I keep trying to like coffee. I figure it's like beer, an acquired taste. But I'm not so sure I"ll ever acquire this one.
I dreamed about work last night. It made it bloody hard to get up this morning, and now I feel like I've been here all day instead of just three hours. *sigh* Then again, I was also dreaming about Snupin this morning when I actually woke up. It's very weird, I occasionally dream I'm Remus. I'm not sure what this means.
I am listening to a lot of music here that I haven't listened to in a long time. See, four or five years ago when I was still driving Draka (the Grand Am) I put in a fancy MP3-playing CD player. It was crap, as it turned out, but I was just excited about the idea of creating MP3 discs and getting my entire music collection on, like, 20 or 30 CDs. I have a lot of music, and I was tired of carting around my big 200-disc holder. So I organized my music collection by genre and then by male/female performers and then by group/single artist. A couple of artists (U2 and Dave Matthews Band and Gordon Lightfoot) rated their own complete MP3 CDs, that's how much I had of their work. So today I've been listening to ROCK GIRLS, which--what the frak was I thinking when I burned this disk? Okay, it has Joan Osborne, Melissa Etheridge, Heart, and Sheryl Crow on it...but it also has Carole King, Dido, Donna Lewis, Emma Bunton, Cher, and Jann Arden. I would call all of the latter pop, I think, with the possible borderline exception of Carole King (though really she's rock as far as she's written, but recording is more pop-ish, I guess). But seriously.
Anyway, now I'm listening to ALTERNATIVE1 which has Better Than Ezra, Bush, Everclear, Incubus, Limp Bizkit, Oleander, Puddle of Mudd, Seven Mary Three, Staind, and Tantrik (or is it Tantric? I never knew how they spelled that). I suppose a couple of those could be called modern rock instead of alternative, but... Hey, my CD collection, my genre definitions. ^_~
It sort of makes me sad - I used to have all my music folders** organized that way, instead of the way iTunes has done it, by artist name. I shouldn't have had iTunes change that when I converted from using WinAmp to using iTunes. Then again, there are times I think about backing the music from Frodo onto the external hard drive (Samwise), wiping all the music off my laptop and just playing the music off the hard drive. That would free up 45G on the laptop's hard drive, and Samwise isn't all that hard to carry along, since he's a cute, compact WD 80G. (Why yes, I am lusting over the 1 Terobyte externals, why do you ask?) So if I went with that plan, I could reorganize my music by hand--which, yes, would be time-consuming, but that's okay--and then reinstall iTunes and tell it to import without organizing.
** (ETA: by folders, I mean the file folders on the hard drive, not the way it's organized within iTunes)
All this leads me to a couple of questions about y'all's music collections.
[Poll #1051649]
I dreamed about work last night. It made it bloody hard to get up this morning, and now I feel like I've been here all day instead of just three hours. *sigh* Then again, I was also dreaming about Snupin this morning when I actually woke up. It's very weird, I occasionally dream I'm Remus. I'm not sure what this means.
I am listening to a lot of music here that I haven't listened to in a long time. See, four or five years ago when I was still driving Draka (the Grand Am) I put in a fancy MP3-playing CD player. It was crap, as it turned out, but I was just excited about the idea of creating MP3 discs and getting my entire music collection on, like, 20 or 30 CDs. I have a lot of music, and I was tired of carting around my big 200-disc holder. So I organized my music collection by genre and then by male/female performers and then by group/single artist. A couple of artists (U2 and Dave Matthews Band and Gordon Lightfoot) rated their own complete MP3 CDs, that's how much I had of their work. So today I've been listening to ROCK GIRLS, which--what the frak was I thinking when I burned this disk? Okay, it has Joan Osborne, Melissa Etheridge, Heart, and Sheryl Crow on it...but it also has Carole King, Dido, Donna Lewis, Emma Bunton, Cher, and Jann Arden. I would call all of the latter pop, I think, with the possible borderline exception of Carole King (though really she's rock as far as she's written, but recording is more pop-ish, I guess). But seriously.
Anyway, now I'm listening to ALTERNATIVE1 which has Better Than Ezra, Bush, Everclear, Incubus, Limp Bizkit, Oleander, Puddle of Mudd, Seven Mary Three, Staind, and Tantrik (or is it Tantric? I never knew how they spelled that). I suppose a couple of those could be called modern rock instead of alternative, but... Hey, my CD collection, my genre definitions. ^_~
It sort of makes me sad - I used to have all my music folders** organized that way, instead of the way iTunes has done it, by artist name. I shouldn't have had iTunes change that when I converted from using WinAmp to using iTunes. Then again, there are times I think about backing the music from Frodo onto the external hard drive (Samwise), wiping all the music off my laptop and just playing the music off the hard drive. That would free up 45G on the laptop's hard drive, and Samwise isn't all that hard to carry along, since he's a cute, compact WD 80G. (Why yes, I am lusting over the 1 Terobyte externals, why do you ask?) So if I went with that plan, I could reorganize my music by hand--which, yes, would be time-consuming, but that's okay--and then reinstall iTunes and tell it to import without organizing.
** (ETA: by folders, I mean the file folders on the hard drive, not the way it's organized within iTunes)
All this leads me to a couple of questions about y'all's music collections.
[Poll #1051649]
