No.7

Ashamed that I haven't blogged in so long. No one, excpet a handful of close friends, reads this so HAY, GIMME AH BRAKE.

I've been in kind of a musical slump. I don't think that I've really explored an album since middle/early high school. The iPod has been the culprit, methinks, and I'm affixed to follow some rules to once again enjoy an album for all it's worth. Here's the plan:

I will be choosing one lone disc to listen to either on the mp3 device or computer, and ignore the rest of my music library, outside of the required listenings I am responsible to listen to for class. I'll move onto another album once I feel that I have understood the current album and what makes it significant.

I remember during the middle/early high shool years, when I was listening to one album at a time, where I was during the listening of certain songs, where I was in life and how I could relate to the tracks on the disc. I want to experience that again. With the advent of the iPod, I listen to what I want when i want- I'm not forced to explore what I don't want to explore and it usually turns out that I apprectiate particular tracks and not why the album from which it comes is good becuase (blank.)

Doubtless, this will be unnerving at first, being aware of the thousands of other songs that might better fit my temperment and voluntarily blocking access to them.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S A TWIST-

I'll also pair the album of choice with a book. This will provide a different narrative to the album OR book. Quelque chose puissant.

Consider all of the combinations!

A (sad) soundtrack for a (happy) book. A (happy) book for a (sad) soundtrack.

I might discover some tricks, like choosing a short story/novel and pairing it with a lengthy album, creating more to explore the album and realate it to the text and my world.

So far, I have the album choosen, but not the book. Here's what I have decided to listen to:

I might pair it with this:

We'll see. And I'll update. HAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAOOOLOLLOLOLOL.