Music to Write To….

I have been searching for something to motivate my blogging efforts. As I was looking up ways to transfer my vinyl to digital format, I started to look through my music collection (in all its forms) and realized I have not listened to many of my albums for quite some time. I spend most of my time listening to music in digital form. This means I almost exclusively listen to the albums I have put into my itunes collection. Blowing off the dust that was settling on some of my albums, I realized how much I needed to revisit each one. I want to remind myself how they came into my collection. What they mean to me. So many of my albums desperately need to be heard. So, I decided that I will write my music collection. Trace the artists, the gaps, the outliers. Everything. And I will do it in my living room. Not on my ipod. Not in the gym. Not while driving my car or riding my bike. The music will fill the spaces of my apartment. And I will write. I will listen and write.

I counted (roughly) 400 cds, vinyl, tapes, music videos, and downloads in my collection. I will delve into each of these for the remainder of this calendar year. That gives me about 137 days to complete this task. And it is my goal to do this each and every day. By December 31, 2009, I will have heard my whole collection and written about each item. And I will have proven to myself that I can write this blog every day for 137 days.