...i'm going to start using this thing. i don't know how enlightening, how rambling, how "whatever" it's going to be, but...i'm gonna do it. or at least i'm going to try.
tonight, i took a nice, long, late (later than usual) walk with lilly. i consider the "ipod" one of the more significant inventions of my lifetime. as silly as that sounds (and i realize, it does sound silly), but i love music, it gives me so much, and the ipod has completely changed the way i listen to it, made music so much more accessible to me. it goes virtually everywhere with me.
that said, i have recently noticed that it seriously changed my listening habits, for the worse. i have recently realized that rarely listen to complete albums, in sequence anymore. that i have created playlists, or use shuffle and really kind of got away from the "concept" of "the album." and i have been missing that.
ok, back to the walk with lilly, we usually do between 1.5 & 2.5 miles on these walks through my great, old neighborhood (called "the highlands") and i listen to music throughout the walk. tonight, just prior to heading out, i commited (to myself) that i would no longer "shuffle" through these walks, that i would pick an album, one that was significant to me for one reason or another and listen to it in sequence through the walk. it was a good idea.
tonight, my first choice in this little listening adventure was neil young's 1970 masterpiece "after the goldrush"...yep, "there was a band playing in my head..." as i mentioned, by changing my listening habits, i'm really hoping to sort of rekindle a love affair with some of the music that has been important to me for one reason or another, primarily earlier in my life. my "formative" years so to speak. maybe a good memory, maybe not. but an important or significant one nonetheless, something that has too long been to ignored by me for one reason or another. and hopefully, i'll rediscover some of those little gems that are wedged in between the more well known songs that i had forgotten about.
"after the goldrush" was a great choice to start this little adventure off with..."when you dance, do your senses tingle and take a chance..."
more later.
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yee-ha! bill's blogging!
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