Every time
Sep. 9th, 2024 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessI'd see James Earl Jones trend on Twitter I'd catch my breath. Today the inevitable happened. R.I.P. Mr. Jones. You brought a lot of joy into this world.
Today I saw the allergist. When he asked about my health since I last saw him, he literally had the look of pity that hurt (and the young doctor to be seemed horrified) I looked and sounded so bad with my allergies I know have three new scripts. This should be fun.
I can't always get calls/texts at the house cuz I'm so rural. So while I was in town at the doctor's a shit ton rolled in including two from my insurance about an upcoming appointment and one trying to get my dexcom for me. Well fantastic. I'll have to make those calls tomorrow after the tv stand gets built. Also I couldn't get the dental appointment made. sigh.
I can't move the bookcase/media center if I need to because the 100 pounds of tv stand is up against them and they're too heavy to move without unloading them. sigh.
I have come to a conclusion moving all this bullshit around, I need to get another terabyte external hard drive and get rid of my music. I have SO many cds. Much like books I collect cds too (or did back in the day) Too many. I spent WAY too much and I think that's one of the reasons I've held on to SO many of these guilt over money perhaps ill spent. Especially the country music and all the crap from Columbia House (remember that?!?) Anyhow it's time. Save the songs I still want as MP3s and get rid of these things. (I'm talking hundreds of them) Decide what I want to keep (signed ones, classical, jazz and Native most likely) and move on the rest. I belonged to a classical music club. A jazz one. in addition to Columbia House. A lot of them because you couldn't sample before you bought in the later 80s and throughout the early 00s (or at least not like you can today) I have a bunch I never even liked once I bought them or I have the ones you bought after hearing one cool song on the radio and the rest sucked it. (I eventually instituted a rule, I had to like 3 songs before buying).
I am doing this because a) needs doing b) my place is incredibly cluttered c) my health sucks and I don't want anyone having to do it for me if something bad happens.
But speaking of music let's continue with the Music Monday Alphabet theme with sharing songs that begin with a certain letter. Feel free to chime in with your favorite song(s) that follow the weekly letter. Hit me with your favs. I love hearing new music or revisiting older pieces. This week's letter is S
In no particular order:
Another favorite in my student union dances back in the day (god, we had dances almost every week and nowadays they have...none. I find that sad)
One that gets played often at Abney Park's online concerts
Speaking of Scalliwags here's Gaelic Storm's version (hmmm was Scalliwag in that pirate bingo at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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Come into the way back machine with me and I remember my parents throwing cocktail parties and dancing to this (with me peering around a corner when I was supposed to be in bed in the 70s)
Back to my student union...
And stay in the union for this one (back when MTV had interesting videos)
Fine you can leave the student union but only if you put on the college's radio
Back into that union
Even if you pretended to hate disco back in the day I guarantee you've danced to this one at least once (or synched your CPR to it)
Let's dive into the world of animatics which introduces me to so much music. Barnes Courtney is one I'd never have heard of without them. I came across this song first via Crit Role but it was only partial so have it with Tony
I would LOVE to see this one redone with something besides just the pilot as it's an old one. Rhianna's only vid is interesting too of course. This could be the sound track of SO many of my original characters while we're at it.
How about some soundtrack music because HOW could I hit S near spooky season and NOT include this (yes, it's old, yes it's problematic rep, but fuck it, it's still fun)
And if I'm honest my newest fandom has some real bangers (hopefully since it IS a musical) and since it's Hazbin assume it's NSFW. This is one of the best of them and I spent the afternoon writing a sex scene for the first two characters for a challenge community. Yep, writing a tv screen giving a blow job was on my bingo this year....
And this one... I played two songs at the Old Post Office for Bush's inaugration. This was one of them. It's also a sound track for several of my characters and some of the Hazbin ones too
Today I saw the allergist. When he asked about my health since I last saw him, he literally had the look of pity that hurt (and the young doctor to be seemed horrified) I looked and sounded so bad with my allergies I know have three new scripts. This should be fun.
I can't always get calls/texts at the house cuz I'm so rural. So while I was in town at the doctor's a shit ton rolled in including two from my insurance about an upcoming appointment and one trying to get my dexcom for me. Well fantastic. I'll have to make those calls tomorrow after the tv stand gets built. Also I couldn't get the dental appointment made. sigh.
I can't move the bookcase/media center if I need to because the 100 pounds of tv stand is up against them and they're too heavy to move without unloading them. sigh.
I have come to a conclusion moving all this bullshit around, I need to get another terabyte external hard drive and get rid of my music. I have SO many cds. Much like books I collect cds too (or did back in the day) Too many. I spent WAY too much and I think that's one of the reasons I've held on to SO many of these guilt over money perhaps ill spent. Especially the country music and all the crap from Columbia House (remember that?!?) Anyhow it's time. Save the songs I still want as MP3s and get rid of these things. (I'm talking hundreds of them) Decide what I want to keep (signed ones, classical, jazz and Native most likely) and move on the rest. I belonged to a classical music club. A jazz one. in addition to Columbia House. A lot of them because you couldn't sample before you bought in the later 80s and throughout the early 00s (or at least not like you can today) I have a bunch I never even liked once I bought them or I have the ones you bought after hearing one cool song on the radio and the rest sucked it. (I eventually instituted a rule, I had to like 3 songs before buying).
I am doing this because a) needs doing b) my place is incredibly cluttered c) my health sucks and I don't want anyone having to do it for me if something bad happens.
But speaking of music let's continue with the Music Monday Alphabet theme with sharing songs that begin with a certain letter. Feel free to chime in with your favorite song(s) that follow the weekly letter. Hit me with your favs. I love hearing new music or revisiting older pieces. This week's letter is S
In no particular order:
Another favorite in my student union dances back in the day (god, we had dances almost every week and nowadays they have...none. I find that sad)
One that gets played often at Abney Park's online concerts
Speaking of Scalliwags here's Gaelic Storm's version (hmmm was Scalliwag in that pirate bingo at
allbingo Come into the way back machine with me and I remember my parents throwing cocktail parties and dancing to this (with me peering around a corner when I was supposed to be in bed in the 70s)
Back to my student union...
And stay in the union for this one (back when MTV had interesting videos)
Fine you can leave the student union but only if you put on the college's radio
Back into that union
Even if you pretended to hate disco back in the day I guarantee you've danced to this one at least once (or synched your CPR to it)
Let's dive into the world of animatics which introduces me to so much music. Barnes Courtney is one I'd never have heard of without them. I came across this song first via Crit Role but it was only partial so have it with Tony
I would LOVE to see this one redone with something besides just the pilot as it's an old one. Rhianna's only vid is interesting too of course. This could be the sound track of SO many of my original characters while we're at it.
How about some soundtrack music because HOW could I hit S near spooky season and NOT include this (yes, it's old, yes it's problematic rep, but fuck it, it's still fun)
And if I'm honest my newest fandom has some real bangers (hopefully since it IS a musical) and since it's Hazbin assume it's NSFW. This is one of the best of them and I spent the afternoon writing a sex scene for the first two characters for a challenge community. Yep, writing a tv screen giving a blow job was on my bingo this year....
And this one... I played two songs at the Old Post Office for Bush's inaugration. This was one of them. It's also a sound track for several of my characters and some of the Hazbin ones too
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Date: 2024-09-10 05:44 am (UTC)I had a whole bunch of cd's that I think I mainly purged several years ago. I clung onto a few, but I'm not sure where they even are now? If I had the space I think I would've just kept them purely for nostalgia. Anyway I hope you get it all sorted.
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Date: 2024-09-10 10:55 am (UTC)I hear you about keeping media in physical form. Since we're two book collectors in one small house with limited vertical walls in the upper floor, I already made the decision to get rid of a lot of my physical books over ten years ago when I started reading digitally. Siljan used to acquire about one full shelf a year, but by now is also starting to limit the physical books he wants and reads more digitally. I've given away about a third of my books to bookcrossing over the years although I'll never get rid of all as long as I have even a bit of space, I can't live without books around me. But I'm still weeding out those I want to keep, and am only getting new ones when I absolutely have to have the physical version, like for my extensive Tolkien collection.
All of our musical library is digitalised since ages, too, although so far for different reasons: we're both mostly listening in the car, or these days on our phones or computers when doing things individually, as when we're together we're mostly either watching something or are gaming. We both used to listen to self-made MP3 CDs in our cars or on our computers, and now it's fully digital.
Things/services like spotify or so aren't for us, and we also refuse to have any of these smart devices in the house that can also play music (I don't even know how the type is called).
So it made more sense to have our CDs digitalised and use/transfer the collection manually (we tried a server solution but it was a bother to maintain, and as we don't get that much new music it's fine to work with manual synching). We still have most of our CDs as we thankfully acquired not a lot of things we don't like anymore, but since we started to change the living room furniture (another of those unfinished-since-years projects of ours /o\ ) they live in boxes the cats sleep on, and I'm not sure we'll put them into shelves again as I don't really knwo where to put the shelves. We currently don't even own a working CD player after cat Pitou destroyed ours by spraying onto it like a lot of our electronics, but could use them with the BluRay-Player or on Siljan's gaming computer which is also plugged into our entertainment hardware. But since clearing out my late MIL's estate I'm tending more and more to want to sort out our own stuff, too, so we'll be going through the CDs as well at some point.
I'm using this software for digitalising; it's free and very good, but by a German company. The website is in English so I hope it migh be possible to do an English install, but I can't change the language at my installed version so I can't tell. I've accumulated quite some experience with digitalising CDs, and tried various softwares over time - with some, the MP3 files weren't useable everywhere, like for example in the player of Siljan's car; but everything I digitalised with this one has worked fine everywhere we tried it (including the rental car in Iceland *g* ).
It's also easy to choose the database to get your CD info from, and I've been able to get 98% of the CD infos - and the other 2% were self-published indy music so it's no surprise I couldn't find the database data.
What you often don't have from digitalising CDs is the cover art on every music file, and depending on the player it won't show. To deal with this I'm using a mp3 tag editor software, also free & German one but this definitely exists in English here, and can easil yadd the cover to all music files, or also easily and bulk edit the tags, index, title, musician and whatnot, which I often need to do for classical music as I prefer to have the composer listed instead of the musician when reading the info in my car, thank you very much).
If you want to try any of these and have questions or issues I'm happy to help out if I can.
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Date: 2024-09-10 12:00 pm (UTC)Oh man, Columbia House! What a blast from the past. I bought so many albums (back when albums were a thing) from them. Some that were good (Pat Benatar) and some that made me think later, what were you thinking, girl?!!
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Date: 2024-09-10 05:11 pm (UTC)Regina Spektor - SugarMan (Tour Video)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sHi789pZfVU%3Fsi%3DKm0FYokTtcJmFpsG
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Date: 2024-09-10 07:25 pm (UTC)I do remember Colombia, they were so tempting but also a trap for my pocketbook. They helped me institute a simular rule of having to like more than one song on an album before I would let myself buy it.
Love Shout by Tears for Fears and Sowing the Seeds of Love for another S song by them.
As for s songs:
Smiling by Alanis Morissette I quite enjoyed this album as well.
https://youtu.be/RE5I3P2FNI0?si=rB_Zylj1AfFnxaeD
Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us by Alison Krauss & Robert Plant One's a country star and the other does Rock & Roll but it works.
https://youtu.be/dl0e7rFUVEw?si=I61eobRFvqZgXsgt
Steve McQueen by Sheryl Crow a fun propulsive song
https://youtu.be/qlywcuw-1TU?si=riLWDQJls_SP7PrB
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Date: 2024-09-10 07:29 pm (UTC)Would have seen it around '75 or '76 I guess; second would have been a Pirate movie, which I knew as The Scarlet Buccaneer, but was known as The Swashbuckler in the US (prefer our title myself).
Not sure when I would have discovered he was the voice of Darth Vader, but probably it would have been before The Empire Strikes Back came out.
Either way, it would have been some time after that that I realised he was the same guy as in The Man, as well as both being the same guy as in The Scarlet Buccaneer; delighted me as he'd been a hero of mine since I saw The Man on TV as a kid.
kerk
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Date: 2024-09-11 04:05 am (UTC)I think the first time I saw his face was in Conan actually
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Date: 2024-09-11 04:06 am (UTC)I have not heard this song or artist so thanks for sharing
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Date: 2024-09-11 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-11 04:19 am (UTC)I struggle to read ebooks (it causes me headaches and sleep disturbances) I am very slow at reading them as a result so I have a lot of real books.
Thanks I have the converting software. It's sitting my butt in a chair and DOING it that's the issue. I'm too easily distracted. I think that might need to be the 2025 resolution, getting a big calendar and marking out time to thin the herd, convert music, clean anything etc
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Date: 2024-09-11 04:21 am (UTC)Thanks. I just have way too much crap
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Date: 2024-09-11 04:26 am (UTC)Swashbuckler / The Swashbuckler / The Scarlet Buccaneer is from 1976, and a lot of fun. Probably available somewhere; got a copy downloaded on a device somewhere; very much a seventies pirate romp with Robert Shaw and Genevieve Bujold being the two leads, but I remember James Earl Jones very well from it.
I saw Conan the Barbarian after I saw Conan the Destroyer; somebody forced me to read one of the Conan books and I was yet to become an Arnie fan, so the main attraction was Grace Jones. I didn't realise he was in the first film until I eventually saw it sometime in the 90s on TV.
kerk
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Date: 2024-09-12 12:42 am (UTC)Sailing To Nowhere - Broken Bells?
Save A Prayer - Duran Duran *
Secret Someones - Laura Veirs?
Send Him Away - Franz Ferdinand?
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes? *
She Floats - Vanessa Carlton?
The Shooting Star - Matsu Takako?
Shrinking Universe - Muse?
Simple Kind Of Life - No Doubt? *
Slam Davis (remix of "Slam Shuffle") remixed by Mazedude, originally composed by Nobuo Uematsu
Son Of Sam - Elliot Smith? *
Soul Meets Body - Death Cab for Cutie? *
Space Oddity (or alternatively Space Oddity - I feel like I imagine this video with the other one's music??) - David Bowie * (yes, I probably posted this one before, but I like it SO much)
Storm José González?
Strange Waters - Bruce Cockburn?
Swan Swan H - R.E.M.
Synchronicity - The Police
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Date: 2024-09-12 02:29 am (UTC)here. is my favorite space oddity cover by an astronaut while in space
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Date: 2024-09-12 03:26 am (UTC)I am not a giant Conan fan if I'm honest but I was an Arnie fan
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Date: 2024-09-12 08:07 pm (UTC)Oh, man, I heard this one years ago and I think it's still beautiful to listen to today! *happy tears*
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Date: 2024-09-13 02:30 am (UTC)me too. In theory it was supposed to be deleted because of copyright limitations but I'm glad it's still out there
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Date: 2024-09-13 09:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-15 03:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-15 03:33 am (UTC)I'd forgotten that Sheryl Crow song.
While familiar with the artists, I've never heard of either of the songs, thanks
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Date: 2024-09-17 04:05 am (UTC)thanks.
If you're still interested in multi-fandom challenges you could check out
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Date: 2024-09-17 07:14 pm (UTC)Hmm! I've never heard of it before. I will check it out.
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Date: 2024-09-18 01:56 am (UTC)it's new this year I believe. I love lyrical prompts