Jul. 10th, 2007 03:58 am
Late night nostalgia
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textualdevianceI've been pulling some late nights in recent days. Not sure why, just on my nightowl cycle, I suppose.
I used most of tonight to put together a music mix for the party, and sort of just threw in a little bit of everything--mostly upbeat stuff from my entire collection. Or at least the part of it that's been ripped. I still have a bunch of vinyl I need to rip (pardon me while I covet a USB turntable...)
The whole shebang ended up at about three days' worth of music. Ack! Ah, well. It'll make for a good road trip mix, too.
It was definitely a walk down memory lane, though. I got too busy to finish that life soundtrack meme of several months ago, and this brought back some of the '90s part of that I hadn't yet gotten to. One of my biggest music consumer jags was in the middle of that decade, and there were so many major things that happened to me around then. I never really got into grunge, per se, but a lot of the crunchier pop--Super Deluxe, Eve 6, Garbage, Veruca Salt, etc.--ended up in my collection. That was also the time I was really neck-deep in my voice studies, so perhaps I needed it as a respite. :) I have some really incredible memories for some of this stuff, though. Lots of the early stages of meeting and dating M, for instance. Things were chaotic, in a zillion different ways, but in a way, those few years really were the foundation of who I am today, so the music from that time is kind of essential to my current self concept.
I used most of tonight to put together a music mix for the party, and sort of just threw in a little bit of everything--mostly upbeat stuff from my entire collection. Or at least the part of it that's been ripped. I still have a bunch of vinyl I need to rip (pardon me while I covet a USB turntable...)
The whole shebang ended up at about three days' worth of music. Ack! Ah, well. It'll make for a good road trip mix, too.
It was definitely a walk down memory lane, though. I got too busy to finish that life soundtrack meme of several months ago, and this brought back some of the '90s part of that I hadn't yet gotten to. One of my biggest music consumer jags was in the middle of that decade, and there were so many major things that happened to me around then. I never really got into grunge, per se, but a lot of the crunchier pop--Super Deluxe, Eve 6, Garbage, Veruca Salt, etc.--ended up in my collection. That was also the time I was really neck-deep in my voice studies, so perhaps I needed it as a respite. :) I have some really incredible memories for some of this stuff, though. Lots of the early stages of meeting and dating M, for instance. Things were chaotic, in a zillion different ways, but in a way, those few years really were the foundation of who I am today, so the music from that time is kind of essential to my current self concept.
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My brother has a USB turntable, but it doesn't actually work all that well for ripping. We, otoh, have something called Instant Music from ADS-Tech (sorry I don't have the url handy, but you can google it), which rips really well.
My problem is that after a year-plus of ripping (certainly over 1000 songs by now), I still have 116 separate artists to rip, and that's just from our LPs-by-artists; I'm not even looking at the vinyl compilations or 45-inch singles yet!
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And the party is this Saturday at 4. Would love to see you if you can make it.
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