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This might sound really dumb:
Sometimes it's kind of a bummer how easy it is to get so much good music so fast. I consume music so quickly that I feel like it really decreases the amount that I appreciate it. I hear a song I like, I find it, I download it or buy it on iTunes or borrow the CD from the library or pick it up at Exile on Main St. Someway I get that song. I find a new song, repeat. And it doesn't particularly seem exciting anymore. I listen to it a few times and then it's time for something new. I remember getting mixes from friends when I was very young and everything seemed really fresh and really exciting. Who were these bands I'd never heard of before?
Basically, I'm staring at my iTunes library right now. Apparently I've got over 17,000 songs which equals over 45 days worth of music. Jeez louise. I'm trying to make a mix for a friend. I have at least four mixes in limbo for various people whom I've told I'd give a mix to. I feel like with 17,000 songs my collection is almost too schizophrenic to cobble together a mix from. I don't know what I feel like putting together - I can usually get three songs together. Maybe more, up to like 30 minutes and then run out of steam.
It's disheartening. And dumb. I want to make some rocking mixes and receive some rocking mixes and in general be excited about music.
Sometimes it's kind of a bummer how easy it is to get so much good music so fast. I consume music so quickly that I feel like it really decreases the amount that I appreciate it. I hear a song I like, I find it, I download it or buy it on iTunes or borrow the CD from the library or pick it up at Exile on Main St. Someway I get that song. I find a new song, repeat. And it doesn't particularly seem exciting anymore. I listen to it a few times and then it's time for something new. I remember getting mixes from friends when I was very young and everything seemed really fresh and really exciting. Who were these bands I'd never heard of before?
Basically, I'm staring at my iTunes library right now. Apparently I've got over 17,000 songs which equals over 45 days worth of music. Jeez louise. I'm trying to make a mix for a friend. I have at least four mixes in limbo for various people whom I've told I'd give a mix to. I feel like with 17,000 songs my collection is almost too schizophrenic to cobble together a mix from. I don't know what I feel like putting together - I can usually get three songs together. Maybe more, up to like 30 minutes and then run out of steam.
It's disheartening. And dumb. I want to make some rocking mixes and receive some rocking mixes and in general be excited about music.