This morning Lucy decided to sleep until 9:30 again, which is wonderful for me. I guess she was still tired from playing with Molly. After she woke me up I got ready for the day and then cleaned some things up around the house. I remembered that my friend Kenny (who I was going to eat lunch with) had taken the time to make me some CD's of the weird music he likes as a moving gift when Kristi and I came back to GVegas. I felt guilty that I hadn't listened to them yet, although in my defense my CD's are still in boxes (well, actually now they're not, but they were this morning). I scrounged around in the boxes and then remembered that I had put those particular CD's in my night stand, so I went and got them on my way out for something to listen to in the car.
Kenny likes some weird music. The first CD he made for me, which I listened to most of the way, consisted of some Indie/Rock songs that he likes. There were a few that interested me a little, but there are two things I get really excited about with music...production and melody. Since alot of the songs were indie, they didn't have very good production at all. Also, the music Kenny likes is more technical with not much emphasis placed on the lyrics and melody. For these two reasons he and I come from completely different worlds when it comes to musical preferences. Sometimes it amazes me that we played together so well in church.
The second CD was some weird post-progressive rock or something. I liked the production better, but alot of the songs on that one don't even have words. Oh well, I guess at least now I have some exposure to a new genre I will call "Kenny's Weird Favorites."
I forgot how hot it is in Columbia. Since my AC is broken in my car I roll my windows down when I drive. It was a pretty cool day in Greenville today and when I started I was quite comfortable. I got hotter and hotter as I got closer to Columbia, and by the time I was downtown I was sweating a good bit. Let me tell you, I do not miss the heat.
I got to Moe's in downtown Columbia and not only was Kenny there, but my friend Randy had also decided to come. Originally he couldn't come because he works out with a trainer Thursday afternoons to be more healthy, but he had decided to move his training days around this week so he could see me. I was really excited that he made it and it was alot of fun being able to catch up with both of them.
I realized after getting a few dirty looks that I had worn a Clemson shirt. This one USC student in line was pretty much staring at it, and it was kind of awkward. He was probably just staring and meditating on how much better our football program is.
After Moe's I headed home and reminisced about my time in Columbia on the way. I decided to listen to some regular music on the way home, so I put in Chris Tomlin's new CD. Ed Cash has some amazing sounding drums, but for some reason I always feel like he ruins some of Tomlin's live stuff in the studio. A good example of this is "Made to Worship." The live version is so much better (in my opinion). On the new CD I do not like what they did with "God of This City." They tried to put all these different chords in there, but I think it just ends up being weird. I guess it's all subjective, but simplicity is a preference of mine when it comes to music. I feel like if you schmootz it up too much it eventually overruns the song. I've never had to spell schmootz before, and I don't think that's right. Anyways, I think I am going to put a CD review every now and then on this blog, so in the next week I'm going to start with that CD and one of Robbie Seay's that I just bought.
I got home and worked on organizing my CD's. I finally found a shelf I could use to put them in at Target the other day. I was pretty excited because my CD's have been disorganized for over a year, and I haven't really been able to see what I have. Last time I counted me CD's was several years ago, and I had in the lower 100's, so I bought a shelf that holds 150...that was a mistake. I realized this when I was only through 3/4ths of the first of two boxes and was already running out of room. Apparently I have more like 250-300 CD's. See, I like CD's for the album art, and also, if Apple is going to DRM my music AND charge me 10$ a CD, why would I not just buy a real CD? Makes sense to me. I had no idea I had that many though.
Before I could go any further Kristi got home and it was time to go to dinner. We celebrated Chad's birthday with the rest of her fam at Arizona tonight. It was a fun time and the food was really good. The have mixed vegetables as a side, but the waitress told me they could make just steamed broccoli for me if I wanted it. I did, and it was great. I think it was probably more fresh because it was made just for me. Now I know to ask restaurants with steamed vegetables if they can make me just the broccoli...you learn something new every day.
After dinner we went back to the Boyd's house, ate some cake, and watched Chad open presents. Kristi didn't want to go to bed too late, so we went home after just a little bit.
When we got home Kristi got ready for bed and I finished organizing my CD's as much as possible:
What you see there is a few categories. Everything on the shelves is alphabetized through somewhere in the N's, totalling about 140. To the right of the shelves are a bunch of other CD's that I want in my main collection that haven't been alphabetized completely (waiting to get another shelf). I counted those and there are a little over 90 of them. To the left is the Christmas category and then a bunch of CD's that I don't really see myself listening to regularly. I think I will put them in a box somewhere. I didn't count those, but I'm guessing probably around 60. On top are a few CD's I need to give back to owners and a few CD's missing cases and a few cases missing CD's. One time I left about 20 of my CD's in Guatemala...that was really lame-o.
Through the whole organizing process I saw some great CD's that I had completely forgotten that I have. I am pretty excited about getting those out and listening to them. It also reminded me that there are a ton of CD's I need to rip to my computer...that is going to take forever. Did you know that I bought a desktop computer for 80$ for my music room the other week? Pretty exciting I think. I did buy 2 gigs of RAM for 50$ so I could record with it, so I guess it was really 130$. It is working wonderfully though, not bad for that price.
After finishing up there I put my drums in my car because I'm playing for a youth conference at NHCC this weekend. I love to play drums and I'm pretty excited. Tomorrow Lucy is going to my parents' house again because I and going to NHCC right after I get off of work. We are playing some pretty sweet songs like "Solution" and "The Time Has Come."
By the way, Joe's blog today ended exactly how mine ended yesterday. I wonder if he did that on purpose or if I am just subconsciously influencing him to be more like me...I will ask him tomorrow.
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