Random thoughts...
Nov. 22nd, 2005 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaisson...on a rainy day while I destaple a large collection of files...
I'm up to the letter P in my cds. I'm taking cds that I could live without but would like the music and ripping them onto my drive. Once I'm done with that I'll go through once more and take out the ones I've been dithering about and quite possibly get rid of those too.
What am I going to do with all of these cds, you ask? Good question...I've told Lynxie and inochinoakari that they can go through them and take whatever they want. He can sell the rest at the next garage sale if he so chooses. :)
While going through them I'm noticing that I have an amazingly large bulk of cds dating 2001-2003. Interesting, that. Even more interesting is that many of those are the ones I'm getting rid of. They were good albums, but I think I was just going the whole hog then. A lot of songs that I picked off of Launchcast. I'm thinking that if I continue with Launchcast I should probably download the songs instead of buying the whole album. Or listen to them on Napster where it's free.
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Currently listening to the Beatles catalog. I'm up to Rubber Soul. I used to do this a lot when I was a kid and had all the American albums on vinyl. It was a good way to waste an afternoon while doing nothing important like drawing or doodling or cleaning up the bedroom. To this day when I hear certain songs I remember where the song skips or where there's a bit of sound distortion due to wear.
I listen to the entire catalog now at work when I can't think of anything else to listen to and the internet stations aren't working due to firewalls or something. I never get sick of listening to them. Even the ones I'm not terribly impressed by ('Girl' and 'The Long and Winding Road' are my two least favorites). But what about their "unreleased" songs, the ones that are staples of the bootlegs and finally released on the Anthology series? With some of them I can see why they weren't released ("If You've Got Troubles" is a good example of a half-baked idea, but I admit to a certain liking to "What's the New Mary Jane" despite its inherent pot-fueled weirdness), but others, I wonder why they didn't fix them and release them ("Not Guilty" comes to mind...). Who knows.
I'm wondering if Apple is going to issue a Volume 2 of "The Capitol Albums" like they did with volume 1 this year. So what would they release? Probably Beatles VI, the American Rubber Soul, Yesterday...and Today (wouldn't it be funny if the package for that one included a variant butcher cover!) and maybe The Early Beatles. For those who are wondering, this box set series includes the US versions of their albums released on Capitol, with both mono and stereo versions on the cd. Capitol was known for putting a hell of a lot of reverb on their earlier releases (listen to Beatles '65--that's the most telling example), and actually most of the Beatles catalog was mixed first in mono by George Martin himself, then remixed into stereo, so there are a few differences.
I'd really like to see a cd version of The Beatles Story which Capitol put out near the end of '64 which is mainly a documentary album but an official entry in the US Beatles catalog, but I highly doubt that's gonna happen.
Anyhoo, yeah, I'm still a Beatles fan after all these years. And to think that my obsession with them started from having this weird obsession with the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Well, at least something good came out of that movie aside from killer covers from Aerosmith and Earth Wind & Fire. ;)
And no, I'm NOT getting rid of my Beatles cds, band or solo. What do you think I am, crazy?!?? ;)
(Puts on Revolver)
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Writers have this weird thing in which they get this nagging urge to sit down and write something, regardless as to whether or not they actually have any project going on at the moment. Which is where I am right now. I'm deliberately not writing because I just don't have time due to the upcoming move, but still I have this urge to write. Which is good, actually. It shows that I'm still dedicated to it.
Right now, this urge is telling me to open up a MSWord window and start writing something, anything off the top of my head. And if I had the time to do it right now, I would, but I can't. Concentrating on writing would mean I'd have to drop the destapling. Posting on LJ is different in that I can stop and start with no problem (most of these long posts are written over the course of an hour or so while doing other things), but writing takes a good hour or three out of my day. Minus playing FreeCell, of course. ;)
I figure that once we've moved and settled in, I'll be doing a LOT more writing again.
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Oh--and let it be known that I LOVE oatmeal raisin cookies. I don't know why, I just do. ;)
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I believe that's all for now...more later if I think of anything else...
I'm up to the letter P in my cds. I'm taking cds that I could live without but would like the music and ripping them onto my drive. Once I'm done with that I'll go through once more and take out the ones I've been dithering about and quite possibly get rid of those too.
What am I going to do with all of these cds, you ask? Good question...I've told Lynxie and inochinoakari that they can go through them and take whatever they want. He can sell the rest at the next garage sale if he so chooses. :)
While going through them I'm noticing that I have an amazingly large bulk of cds dating 2001-2003. Interesting, that. Even more interesting is that many of those are the ones I'm getting rid of. They were good albums, but I think I was just going the whole hog then. A lot of songs that I picked off of Launchcast. I'm thinking that if I continue with Launchcast I should probably download the songs instead of buying the whole album. Or listen to them on Napster where it's free.
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Currently listening to the Beatles catalog. I'm up to Rubber Soul. I used to do this a lot when I was a kid and had all the American albums on vinyl. It was a good way to waste an afternoon while doing nothing important like drawing or doodling or cleaning up the bedroom. To this day when I hear certain songs I remember where the song skips or where there's a bit of sound distortion due to wear.
I listen to the entire catalog now at work when I can't think of anything else to listen to and the internet stations aren't working due to firewalls or something. I never get sick of listening to them. Even the ones I'm not terribly impressed by ('Girl' and 'The Long and Winding Road' are my two least favorites). But what about their "unreleased" songs, the ones that are staples of the bootlegs and finally released on the Anthology series? With some of them I can see why they weren't released ("If You've Got Troubles" is a good example of a half-baked idea, but I admit to a certain liking to "What's the New Mary Jane" despite its inherent pot-fueled weirdness), but others, I wonder why they didn't fix them and release them ("Not Guilty" comes to mind...). Who knows.
I'm wondering if Apple is going to issue a Volume 2 of "The Capitol Albums" like they did with volume 1 this year. So what would they release? Probably Beatles VI, the American Rubber Soul, Yesterday...and Today (wouldn't it be funny if the package for that one included a variant butcher cover!) and maybe The Early Beatles. For those who are wondering, this box set series includes the US versions of their albums released on Capitol, with both mono and stereo versions on the cd. Capitol was known for putting a hell of a lot of reverb on their earlier releases (listen to Beatles '65--that's the most telling example), and actually most of the Beatles catalog was mixed first in mono by George Martin himself, then remixed into stereo, so there are a few differences.
I'd really like to see a cd version of The Beatles Story which Capitol put out near the end of '64 which is mainly a documentary album but an official entry in the US Beatles catalog, but I highly doubt that's gonna happen.
Anyhoo, yeah, I'm still a Beatles fan after all these years. And to think that my obsession with them started from having this weird obsession with the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Well, at least something good came out of that movie aside from killer covers from Aerosmith and Earth Wind & Fire. ;)
And no, I'm NOT getting rid of my Beatles cds, band or solo. What do you think I am, crazy?!?? ;)
(Puts on Revolver)
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Writers have this weird thing in which they get this nagging urge to sit down and write something, regardless as to whether or not they actually have any project going on at the moment. Which is where I am right now. I'm deliberately not writing because I just don't have time due to the upcoming move, but still I have this urge to write. Which is good, actually. It shows that I'm still dedicated to it.
Right now, this urge is telling me to open up a MSWord window and start writing something, anything off the top of my head. And if I had the time to do it right now, I would, but I can't. Concentrating on writing would mean I'd have to drop the destapling. Posting on LJ is different in that I can stop and start with no problem (most of these long posts are written over the course of an hour or so while doing other things), but writing takes a good hour or three out of my day. Minus playing FreeCell, of course. ;)
I figure that once we've moved and settled in, I'll be doing a LOT more writing again.
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Oh--and let it be known that I LOVE oatmeal raisin cookies. I don't know why, I just do. ;)
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I believe that's all for now...more later if I think of anything else...
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