I really need to stop time traveling. On Friday when I rushed through writing four of these things it was stressful and unfun. It's like work, really... but work I want to do, just as much as I don't want to. Being behind is nice because it gives me time to sit down and plan out a multi-song sequence instead of just winging it each day. Then I can plan which song fits into what I want to write, if I have a specific topic in mind... Right now, I just want to talk about how I do this, you see?

When I listened to Sons & Daughters' This Gift, I believe I was unimpressed. As I've said before, if I listen to something and it doesn't grab me, I forget about it entirely. I don't even maintain an opinion other than "I listened to it and I don't listen to it now." Sons & Daughters, however, kept popping up in playlists I made using iTunes Genius, so eventually this song and Split Lips (which you can find on The Birthday Mix) wormed their way into my musical repertoire just based on blunt repetition. In this way I am glad I have an 80gb iPod when I only really need 15gb of music: iTunes Genius forces me to re-listen to all the undeleted music in my collection out of the context of the album, and some of it is quite good!

Unfortunately about four updates ago iTunes Genius stopped working for me. Thanks a lot, iTunes!

When I started this project a mere 223 days ago, I had visions of grandeur: I'd build a huge audience, everyone would love me, people would buy tons of music, and my opinion on music would come to be respected. Since I've been doing it "this long" (and I put it in quotes as to accentuate that it hasn't been "that long" at all) I've realized a few things.

1.) It's hard to talk about music the way I do, in a "tough/ugly love" kind of way. I don't post anything I don't like, but I always have something negative to say about the song I post. A lot of the times I worry that an artist will land on my site and instead of reading all the parts where I go, "I love this band!" they read the parts were I say, "But this part of the album blows," and mark me in their head as being on their "go get fucked" list. A lot of the time my internal censor is going off saying, "Would you say this to this band's face?" and most of the time the answer is no... if only because I don't like meeting the people who are in the bands I love.

2.) I'm not going to get famous writing about a song every day on the internet. If anything I'll achieve my original goal as stated in the sidebar: I want to expose people to the music I listen to. So far I've achieved this goal and, without doing anything different than I am now, I'll continue to achieve this goal every day that I post music. If you've liked at least some of music I've posted, then I've done my job. I'll take pride in this.

3.) I'm not going to get rich off this, by any measure. No one buys music, at least not through the links I put to Amazon MP3, and that's no big deal really. The Amazon links were a request early on by readers and I like the album art. I'll talk numbers in tomorrow's (yesterday's) post.

All in all, I am proud of what I have done here, and will keep going. It's work-like, at times, if I let myself fall behind, but overall, I like it.

Thanks for reading.