Had I planned to keep this updated, this has likely been a tad longer than I would have expected myself to get things done in. I didn’t, though, so….

I don’t know how it is for the rest of you, but I usually have a few things that I’m actually generally concentrating on over the course of some weeks and possibly months. Recently those things have been “new music” and “pulling my shit together”.

“new music” is relative to me.That means, newer/ish to me and certainly doesn’t imply any sort of typical time period. If you’ve never noticed, my time & times are … often different.

“pulling my shit together”  is more or less getting my house in order by semi-normal and then my standards. I wouldn’t say that’s any more special than not wanting my house to harm, collapse on or under, or otherwise maim someone - yes, previous ones have. Anything after that is gravy. More on that crap later.

Right now, the music is making me the happiest. While I don’t keep up with much of anything, I know some awesome people that do. Most specifically it’s the folks at Ohmpark and From Exile, and certainly that stupid picture site. And yes, you others too.

The past few days I’ve been working on fixing all the artist, title, and sometimes album/track num/disc num on all my tracks, a lot of which had many issues. I had a progam in the past that was incredibly helpful with setting all sorts of tags using path/file name patterns, but had no reference for it and quicly found a free windows program called Mp3Tag .. and it runs fine under wine ( mostly ).

Back to the point - in failing to completely remove & re-add everything and all the corrected info to my ipod, I managed to be late to work and have an empty ipod this morning. I added some safety staples - Smashing Pumpkins, Morphine, STP - and then tried out a bunch of new things I never loaded but had (I’m an idiot - end of story). And the actual point - the “new” things I listened to today were:

Yo La Tengo - I enjoyed the hell out of both albums I listened to and am looking forward to any others I get hold of.

Mastodon - I listened to “Call of the Mastodon” and “Blood Mountain”. I was pretty pleased with both, “Blood Mountain” more, though, I believe.

Sigur Ros - I enjoyed the two albums I listened to a lot. They ended up playing during some real good, solid work time today, so  I don’t remember distinctly, but they obviously pleased me.

Of Montreal - Honestly, I was disappointed with what I listened to - it was their “The Sunlandic Twins” album. I’d swear I’ve heard their stuff before and liked it a lot. I have 2 others I’ll check out, though. Ok, here’s the thing… the song “Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games” sounds like they ripped it off from a fucking Outback commercial. Maybe I just have to put that out of my mind and try again.

Hopefully I also influenced someone’s “music life” today. This finally clicked a couple weeks ago, and I got around to it tonight (see the time comment above). There is a waitress at the bar named Sheila. I love Morphine, so I know they have a song named Sheila about her & her cat. So I asked if she knew of any of that - she didn’t, but was interested… I told her it was jazzy-ish rock w/ a good bit of bass - that should be close enough.  So hopefully there’s a new Morphine fan - I may just burn her “Cure for Pain” and force the `issue`. And if so, hopefully she’s not as upset as I was when I finally realized that Mark Sandman was dead and I would never see them or hear anything new.

eh.