Digital Housekeeping

I was reading the Frog earlier today, catching up on his stuff from the last few days, and I ran across a line about him burning CD's, which got me to thinking that I've never really bothered to make any kind of mix CD's since I've had the option of burning stuff to disc. This is really strange, considering I used to make boatloads of mixtapes back in the day, I suppose I always figured I could tape over that later if I lost interest in it, where the CD thing is obviously more permanent.

With this in mind I started kinda running a mental list of stuff that I owned like soundtracks and whatnot that lent itself towards this idea as I went about my day.

I worked on the new project this morning, listening to the rest of the new Night Of The Living Podcast while I did so, then a Cinema Diabolica from the first of this year, I'm gradually getting caught up on those, which is cool. I'm really liking the interaction between the two hosts, they have amusing banter.

The wife came back from her museum meeting and we went for a late lunch, stopped at the bank for me and then hit a craft store that she wanted to browse. She found a few odds and ends, then we were heading home when she got a call from her friend JH from her work, so we stopped into the jewelry store she works in for a quick visit.

Back at the house we chilled a bit and wen through the mail. I fed the Yorkie, she's been eating like a horse in between laying about, so we think she may still feel a little blah after her vet ordeal. I started gathering stuff from the media room to put onto these CD's I'm now imagining loading the car up with, as well as burning copies for the wife. When I first met her, she was spending more time at the office and like a lot of people using that time to put together her own CD's, which she's gotten out of the habit of doing. I asked if she'd want me to give her something for her car, and she said that she'd love it, so I was set with the task of finding stuff I like that I thought might appeal to her as well. I'm hoping this proves fairly easy, as she's pretty open minded about whatever we listen to in the car, anything from the old country to psychobilly to the really abrasive gabber stuff, nothing's ever really gotten the old "Can we turn this off?" reception, so that's a good sign.

The only problem I ran up against was the fact that with the backlog of podcasts from last week's vacation and the other stuff still on the iTunes, if I added anything from the growing stack of CD's to the playlist the iPod would refuse to update due to the lack of space in his little memory banks. Rather than put little Agador Spartacus through that, I tackled the monumental task of finally cleaning out iTunes for good. This included finally burning the stuff I've purchased from iTunes over the past few years to disc, something I've put off time and again, as well as creating little covers with tracklistings for all of them, because yes, I'm that anal, there'll be no free-floating CD's in my life leaving me wondering what the hell they could contain.

I made one specific disc filled with stuff from Myspace, from the days before most all of the bands turned off the little download option for their preview songs. I made a litle cover for it using the first girl's picture that popped up under a Google Image search for 'slutty Myspace' because there was a goofy picture in the # 2 spot that I though fit the bill perfectly for a disc titled I Found It On Myspace!.

This evening I finally sat down and checked out the most recent Guy Ritchie film, which went straight to DVD over here, though it was released in England at least 2 years ago, if I'm not mistaken. Revolver was something of a return to form for Ritchie, back at home in the crime genre after that boring foray into working with his wife on Swept Away. I enjoyed Revolver well enough, though it takes a strangely new-agey twist towards the middle to end of its running time, which caused me to comment to the wife "I think Madonna has fucked the sense right out of him." I may have to give it another look sometime later down the road, but one thing's for sure, it's no Snatch.

I'm out, I have playlists to concoct.

Be seeing you.

Tag, you're it, Baggy Eyes! Workday, Podcasts, Night Of The Living Podcast, Cinema Diabolica, Music, , CD Burning, iTunes, iPod, Agador Spartacus, Movies, Guy Ritchie, Revolver, Swept Away, Snatch