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Project For The Day: Music
May. 28th, 2006 12:20 pmSo in the last week I've been downloading music from my friend's sekrit server. I downloaded what my nephew wanted, then a little more, and then I just started downloading stuff that intersted me... two Posies cds, two Iced Earth cds, all of Shadow Gallery, all of Kamelot. Right now I'm comparing my Porcupine Tree collection to his, and I have 2 cds he doesn't have -- but he has about 6 that I don't have. I'm downloading those.
I've also been ripping a lot of my cds to my hard drive. One of the reasons is that I want to make a few more cds for my nephew. In December I made a cd that he wanted for Christmas, and since he seemed to be into metal a bit, I made a mix cd of Christian metal & hard rock, which I have a lot of. (To be honest, these days I have a lot of VERY RARE and HARD TO GET Christian metal cds. This is stuff that did not sell a lot of copies, but new fans that want it come along all the time.)
As if to illustrate that -- I came across a web site that had a lot of information on Christian rock, and I registered so that I could comment on my favorite cds, and the administration has already contacted me because I said I own a cd that just about nobody owns, and they want me to give them a track listing and description of the music to update their data files. ^_^
So I had a lot of Christian metal that I jsut don't listen to anymore, and hadn't gotten around to ripping yet. I also had new cds that I'd recently ordered that I hadn't ripped yet. And then, I stopped at Half Price Books in Southcenter and the U-District on the way to the Tai-Pan editorial board yesterday. I was looking for some of the other stuff that my nephew wants -- Korn, System of a Down, Drowning Pool, The Explosion, Slipknot, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister. The only thing I found was Quiet Riot's Metal Health for $7.98 which was still too expensive in my book, but at the first store I picked up "Mr Happy Go Lucky" by John Mellencamp for $1.00. I now have five John Mellencamp cds, and three of them cost me $1.00 each... I had to pay more for Scarecrow and Whenever We Wanted of course, those ones had hits on them. ^_^
And since I had none of my John Mellencamp cds ripped, I'm doing that now.
At the second Half Price store I bought 3 more cds... also not what I was really looking for. I picked up "Epica -- Consign to Oblivion" which is a goth metal group that I hadn't really been impressed with before but for a few bucks I decided I'd grab it. I also got "The Donnas -- Gold Medal" and "THe Real McKenzies -- Pissed Tae Th' Gills" which is their tribute to Robert Burns, "the greatest bard to have ever walked the face of the earth, and if he were alive today, there's no doubt in our minds that he would be in this band."
Also on the way up yesterday I stopped at Ikea and picked up a beano slim/tall cd shelf. I have room to fit one next to the big cd shelf in the hallway, and it should prove very useful. I want to alphebetize my cds there, but part of the problem is that they're crammed in so tight that it's next to impossible to reshuffle them, because you pull out a few and have no place to put them elsewhere. And anyway there's a lot of cds in the bedroom that belong with the main group, if I put all my rock cds in order.
Ikea's new layout is a bit messier than it was before. They're having a sale now -- charging no tax on anything, so that the price you see is what you pay and no more. I only had the one item but avoided the express lanes because they were only cash, credit and debit -- and then when I finally got to the front of one of the much busier regular checkout lanes, I was told that as of May 1st they no longer accept checks. So I really didn't accomplish anything by avoiding the faster lanes.
So today's project is to put up the new cd shelf and then organize my cds, and maybe rip a few more. Soon I'm going to have to think about getting a new hard drive, my main music storage drive is a 120 gig drive, of which I actually have about 114 gig of space to use, and it's now about 98 gig full and growing. I'm about to hit the 100 gig barrier for my music files. I should move to something at least 160 gig (the size of my backup disk on the other computer).
And I should clean up a bit. I'm having friends over next weekend, yikes!
And write something -- either something on a Tai-Pan story, or on my Ranma 1/2 fanfic.
And maybe get my apache server working again, if I can figure out how.
I've also been ripping a lot of my cds to my hard drive. One of the reasons is that I want to make a few more cds for my nephew. In December I made a cd that he wanted for Christmas, and since he seemed to be into metal a bit, I made a mix cd of Christian metal & hard rock, which I have a lot of. (To be honest, these days I have a lot of VERY RARE and HARD TO GET Christian metal cds. This is stuff that did not sell a lot of copies, but new fans that want it come along all the time.)
As if to illustrate that -- I came across a web site that had a lot of information on Christian rock, and I registered so that I could comment on my favorite cds, and the administration has already contacted me because I said I own a cd that just about nobody owns, and they want me to give them a track listing and description of the music to update their data files. ^_^
So I had a lot of Christian metal that I jsut don't listen to anymore, and hadn't gotten around to ripping yet. I also had new cds that I'd recently ordered that I hadn't ripped yet. And then, I stopped at Half Price Books in Southcenter and the U-District on the way to the Tai-Pan editorial board yesterday. I was looking for some of the other stuff that my nephew wants -- Korn, System of a Down, Drowning Pool, The Explosion, Slipknot, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister. The only thing I found was Quiet Riot's Metal Health for $7.98 which was still too expensive in my book, but at the first store I picked up "Mr Happy Go Lucky" by John Mellencamp for $1.00. I now have five John Mellencamp cds, and three of them cost me $1.00 each... I had to pay more for Scarecrow and Whenever We Wanted of course, those ones had hits on them. ^_^
And since I had none of my John Mellencamp cds ripped, I'm doing that now.
At the second Half Price store I bought 3 more cds... also not what I was really looking for. I picked up "Epica -- Consign to Oblivion" which is a goth metal group that I hadn't really been impressed with before but for a few bucks I decided I'd grab it. I also got "The Donnas -- Gold Medal" and "THe Real McKenzies -- Pissed Tae Th' Gills" which is their tribute to Robert Burns, "the greatest bard to have ever walked the face of the earth, and if he were alive today, there's no doubt in our minds that he would be in this band."
Also on the way up yesterday I stopped at Ikea and picked up a beano slim/tall cd shelf. I have room to fit one next to the big cd shelf in the hallway, and it should prove very useful. I want to alphebetize my cds there, but part of the problem is that they're crammed in so tight that it's next to impossible to reshuffle them, because you pull out a few and have no place to put them elsewhere. And anyway there's a lot of cds in the bedroom that belong with the main group, if I put all my rock cds in order.
Ikea's new layout is a bit messier than it was before. They're having a sale now -- charging no tax on anything, so that the price you see is what you pay and no more. I only had the one item but avoided the express lanes because they were only cash, credit and debit -- and then when I finally got to the front of one of the much busier regular checkout lanes, I was told that as of May 1st they no longer accept checks. So I really didn't accomplish anything by avoiding the faster lanes.
So today's project is to put up the new cd shelf and then organize my cds, and maybe rip a few more. Soon I'm going to have to think about getting a new hard drive, my main music storage drive is a 120 gig drive, of which I actually have about 114 gig of space to use, and it's now about 98 gig full and growing. I'm about to hit the 100 gig barrier for my music files. I should move to something at least 160 gig (the size of my backup disk on the other computer).
And I should clean up a bit. I'm having friends over next weekend, yikes!
And write something -- either something on a Tai-Pan story, or on my Ranma 1/2 fanfic.
And maybe get my apache server working again, if I can figure out how.
