So this past week wasn’t interesting at all. With that being said, its off to the news. I went back to the homeland this weekend for friends, family, and mothers. The redwings won on saturday and Chris Osbad got hacked. The good news is that I am going on vacation for three days and making a trek to new york city. Thats right the big apple. I plan to attend a yankees game and if all goes accordingly, I will stand in the same stretch of road steve martin did outside his high profile job in planes, trains, and automobiles.
While I was at my parents house, it was brought to my attention that I still have more “shit” in their basement. After a little bit of exploring, I see that I never took my entire CD collection home with me last christmas. I figure that I have my own house now, so what better time to take it with me? I brought it home, looked at the 150 square platic units in front of me and was amazed how many memories came back me. In seventh grade, I aquired the entire Ozzy Osbourne discography when obseesed with Randy Rhoads and Jake E. Lee. I also went through a solid phase in highschool where I listened to quite a bit of hip hop and bought records by Cappadonna and The Wu-Tang Clan. And of course, the 90′s seattle sound from the workings of band like nirvava and alice in chains.
One of my first thoughts was my dad telling how of a horrible idea it was spending all of the money I earned peddling papers in junoir high on compact dics. His main point was that when I got to be forty, I would never listen to them. Well, I’m twenty-five and after looking through this collection, I probably wont listen to half of these records ever again. Not necessarily that they are bad(well maybe some), but I ed have listened to all of them so much, I have no desire to now at all.
I guess the question arises – is it because none of these are new or am I truely just sick of listening to them? Has the over-abundance of music these days killed the music I grew up on? Some say the good music will live through anything. I suppose that is right, but I also think these modern times in music expose the ugliness of music that should have never seen the light of day in the first place. I’ve aquire around three hundred compact discs since my family got our first boombox with built-in CD player at age 10. I think that if the revolution of file sharing never took off, I would have twice as many these days. There is something about a massive CD collection that makes you say “harumph”.
What is one to make of all this? Its just my random thoughts so nothing really. Its just my infactuation with the future of the musicbuissness. I guess I’m just really excited to see what the next business model will be for music. Really, we have no one to blame but these fat cats trying to make a silk purse out of a pigs ear. I smell bacon and I’m hungry, so I gotta go.
In other news, it was brought to my attention that no one is commenting on this site because there is no link to them. I added it so there are no more excuses.