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* I went to my quarterly dental cleaning in San Antonio today (or so I thought).  I got there and my hygienist said they didn't schedule me for enough time - so she can't do it.  Argh!!  I re-scheduled for the Tuesday after next.  Not a happy camper, but it's not like I traveled to Austin and paid for parking.....

* I did make the trip kind of worth it by doing my quarterly Sun Harvest Farms shopping.  I always come away with sticker shock, but I do get lots of stuff I can't get in New Braunfels: Ecover products (I use the dish soap and laundry detergent), Hemp Protein powder, nuts (raw almonds were on sale), grains (oats, red lentils), and bread baking stuff (vital wheat gluten, rice & rye flour - they had organic stone ground whole wheat flour for $1.99 a pound!!!  This is another justification for buying a grain mill damnit).

* I got gasoline in San Antonio today - $3.59 a gallon which is 10 cents a gallon cheaper than New Braunfels.  Why didn't anyone put the cents symbol on the keyboard?

* Some people who have been with my journal a long time might remember when I began my experiment with the Bach Remedies Mimulus and Wild Oat.  I'd had good luck with the Rescue Remedy in the past - so I thought I'd give it a go.  I think Mimulus might have had some effect on me - the Wild Oat, not so much that I noticed....though I could be wrong.  I am done with both bottles, and decided I'd move on to something else - so while at Sun Harvest, picked up the Bach Remedy Larch.  Larch is supposed to help instill a sense of self-esteem when you feel inferior, fear failure, or lack self-confidence.  I know all of you are probably wondering why in the world I would choose that one..... :-)

*  I'm converting my 300 cd collection to digital.  Has anyone done this?  How do you keep your files?  I was planning on keeping them on my pc, but I'd just started and I'd accumulated over 10 gigabytes of files.  My pc hard drive is 50gb and 30 of that is free - so no way all my music would fit.  Right now I'm transferring the files to data cd's until I can figure out how to do it.  My plan was to have a big jukebox on the hard-drive - but doesn't look like that's going to happen.

* Tonight the season finale of American Idol begins.  Looking forward to the performances.  It could be anyone's guess.  www.votefortheworst.com is telling their following to vote for David Archuletta which kind of surprises me.  I would have thought he would be the favorite.  I've been a David Cook fan most of the season, but I always vote depending on the individual shows performances.  I loved Archuletta the most when he sang Angel - gave me goosebumps.  Tomorrow's results show is 2 hours, but I think it's 7-9 not 8-10 so I won't get to see it live. Anyway - in 2 separate posts I'm going to put up my favorite performances from each. They are both pretty talented.

 
dalthauser: (ZIM PANTS)

Tuesday evening I decided I would get around to rearranging the CD's in my 200CD changer in some sort of order so I could choose the first CD and have it play several like discs in a row.  I made a preliminary decision to have 10 disc sections of the following:

Enya & Friends (Yanni, Loreena Mckinnet, Kitaro, etc. etc.)
New Age Collections (mostly K-tel type with various artists on each CD)
Asian Classic & New Age (Yo Yo Ma, Kitaro, and various - mostly Japanese - CD's)
Classic Classics (Mostly Chamber music but some other stuff as well)
Flamenco Guitar & Mariachi (half and half I love both)
Background Nature (Thunderstorms, Rivers, Jungle, Bayou....stuff like that)
Oldies but Goodies (some 50's but mostly 60's and some early 70's)
Feel Good Music (primarily 70's stuff K-tel collections and lots of James Taylor & Cat Stevens)
Folk/Rock style (Melanie, Rickie Lee Jones, Peter Salett, John Meher, Bonnie Raitt, etc. etc.)
SoundTracks (Remember the Titans, The Full Monty, 91/2 Weeks, Drowning Mona, etc. etc.)
80's Rock (Compilations, also REO Speedwagon, Def Deppard, Van Halen, etc, etc. etc.
90's & early 2000 Stuff (Gin Blossoms, Hootie, Matchbox 20, Counting Crows, etc. etc.)
Country and Country-Like (The Band, The Corrs, Dixie Chicks, Classic K-Tel CD's, Waylon, Gary Morris, EmmyLou, etc.)
Disco (mostly K-tel type collections, Hiroshima, and the Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever)
Soul & Blues (some compilations, also Nina Simone *I worship her*, Marvin Gaye, Teddy, Al Green, etc.

>>> pretty sure I missed a few, but I forgot to bring my list to work with me<<<

It involved pulling everything out - determining if something in my off-line collection (I have about 200 offline as well) wants to be included - then deciding what online needs to go to make room etc. etc. etc.  

This is what Vicodin does to me........ and I like it!

I couldn't fit in a section for traditional & contemporary Hawaiian music (love it and have a lot of it) or Zydeco/Mardi Gras type music (also have lots of it), or Goth Music (I listen to this mostly during Halloween season, it's a long story on why I have so much....haha).  
If this changer ever bites the dusk, my next one will be a 400 changer :-)



Tonight I will get the livingroom back to looking more like a livingroom and less like a grunge band's garage.

dalthauser: (ZIM PANTS)

So, I'm laying down on the floor in my livingroom with CNN on the T.V and the Texas State Radio station playing in the sewing room - and doing a Sukoku puzzle (my idea of multi-tasking) and a song comes on that I'd never heard before. 

I acknowledge in my head that it's got a nice beat and continue with my puzzle. In a bit I stop and am like.... I like this song. 

Little while more - Wow, I REALLY like this song!!. I rise from my prone position (so it must have been an awesome song) - grabbed some scrap paper on the way and went back to the radio. I scribbled some random lyrics as fast as I could before the song ended. 

Gotta find out who sings this.

Daughter called a little later that day. If anyone can help it's her.

Me: I explained the above to her.

Sierra: "That's cool"

Me: "Can you search for the lyrics so I can find out who sings it?"

Sierra: "Uh, okay" - what are the lyrics?"

Me: "Well, they said ' I put down my ballast' "

Sierra: "Hang on"

(time passes)

Sierra: "Can you give me some more to go on?"

Me: "Well, I wrote down 'The Whore of Babylon"

Sierra: (silence)

Me: "and I think I remember Bethlehem being mentioned"

(pregnant pause)

Sierra: "Okaaayy then......, hang on"

(time passes)

Sierra: "I think it's Bright Eyes"

Me: "Is that the band or the song title?"

Sierra: "It's the band's name"

Me: "Have you ever heard of them?"

Sierra: "I think so ..... I think it's an Emo band"

Me: "I dunno..... the song seemed pretty upbeat to me...."

Sierra: "Here - I downloaded a clip - listen"

(song plays faintly into the receiver)

Me: "OMG OMG...That's it! That's it!"

Sierra: "The song is titled Four Seasons"

Me: "Well, that band is going to be famous someday!" 

(hey..... I predicted Eminem's fame.....)

EDIT:  Um, it appears Bright Eyes isn't exactly unfamous - I guess it's just not the type of music I usually listen to.  Also - as it turns out, Four Winds isn't exactly an upbeat song (though the tempo itself is), but I got the CD - and I love the whole thing!.

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