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just wondering where all you folks find the time to listen to your music collections. with the advent of internet ordering, my collection is growing rapidly. it seems as if i spend all my listening time with the new titles i buy each week, with little time to devote to my back catalog. after listening to a new disc a couple of times and then putting it away, it may be months before i get back to it. the nature of my job doesn't allow me to listen to music while i work. my daily commute is about five minutes, which rules out car listening. this really only leaves me a couple of hours at night, and then the weekends. factor in movie watching, reading, television, cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping etc., and i'm not left with much time to just sit down and listen to my collection. sometimes, i think about not buying anyhting new for a couple of months just so i can catch up, but then i panic about what i miss out on. so, how do you do it? ---------------------------------------------- D is for Desond thrown out of a sleigh ---------------------------------------------- bruce levenstein bruceLev@mindspring.com ---------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

The two things that take most of my time (work and school) are both things that I can do while listening to music. I bring at least 4 CDs to work with me each day. Then back home I'm usually doing homework with music on, mostly vinyl (unless I'm doing something where I don't want to get up and change the record every 20 minutes, then I throw a few discs in the changer). I then put 2 cds in the changer when I go to sleep, one to read by and then a quiet one to drift off to sleep to. Every CD that I listen to gets piled on a desk, not back on the shelf. This ensures that older things don't get neglected (also a good way to find things that I want to sell). I re-file CDs into the shelf every few months, I'm long over due now, I can barely see my turntable. Much more about my personal habits than you probably wanted to know... Oh well. Hess On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, brucelev wrote:

quoted 2 lines just wondering where all you folks find the time to listen to your music

> just wondering where all you folks find the time to listen to your music > collections. with the advent of internet ordering, my collection is growing

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----- Original Message ----- From: brucelev <brucelev@mindspring.com> To: <idm@hyperreal.org> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 12:36 AM Subject: (idm) where do you get the time?

quoted 3 lines factor in movie watching, reading, television, cleaning, laundry, grocery

> factor in movie watching, reading, television, cleaning, laundry, grocery > shopping etc., and i'm not left with much time to just sit down and listen > to my collection.

Music can be listened to while doing all of the above activities. :) It gets even more fun when you combine a bunch of that stuff... there's nothing better around here than having every conceivable electronic device powered on and active. Listening to talk radio, the television, the stereo, and a RealAudio stream all while reading/writing/concentrating on e-mail/websites/work can be a very surreal experience. To answer your question though, I still have a ton of stuff in my collection that I've never played or only played once. My current habit consists of buying new releases, listening to them once, then putting them on the shelf and listening to old stuff until I come back to the "new" stuff a few months later... at which point it is old and I listen to it. :) Sounds completely mental when I write it out like that. Maybe I'm going in circles, but I'm sure I'll listen to everything I own sooner or later. superfuzz@home.com np: Plug - "Drum N Bass For Papa" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

On 7 Nov 99, Superfuzz wrote re: Re: (idm) where do you get the time:

quoted 2 lines I still have a ton of stuff in my

> I still have a ton of stuff in my > collection that I've never played or only played once.

YAY - HOORAY ! I'm not the only one. Whew :-) I've accumulated so much guilt about it ... the expenditure involved versus the enjoyment gained, etc. I * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

WOOOA !!! That's the question I wanted to ask so many times but I was afraid of... I listen maybe to an album per day, sometimes an album per week ...I am maybe sort of complicated person coz I cannot combine more things at once, because one always comes out really bad... So while I am listening to new Ed DMX album while I am writing this, I cannot write proper English and I cannot give a proper listen to Good Time Girl ....I mean I hear the music, but not like I wanted to, it's like someone is constantly disturbing me... I cannot see the structures, bars of rhythms and melodies, sound effects, all the channels, production, ... I just feel the music and the happy feeling that moves me. I cannot derivate music to simple forms, because my brain couldn't accept so much information... Maybe I have to try harder and train my brain to do parallel jobs more efficiently... i am to lazy to do more things at once, music is just It Was a 20 Minute Affair Yeah Yeah 20 Minute Affair It Was 20 Minute Affair I swear 20 Minute Affair. FFFFFRRREEESSSSH dd d,d,,,,dddddmmxdmmddmxxxxddmddxxxx I swear bye rob NP: the jones machine guitar solo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

In a message dated 11/7/99 12:36:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, brucelev@mindspring.com writes: << the nature of my job doesn't allow me to listen to music while i work. my daily commute is about five minutes, which rules out car listening. this really only leaves me a couple of hours at night, and then the weekends. factor in movie watching, reading, television, cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping etc., and i'm not left with much time to just sit down and listen to my collection. sometimes, i think about not buying anyhting new for a couple of months just so i can catch up, but then i panic about what i miss out on. so, how do you do it? >> I take a night to listen to my new pile. Then I put one track from each record that I like the most onto a tape (or two tapes, some weeks). Then I listen to it when I drive around all week. My job entails me being in a car about 40-50 hours a week, plus I have an hour round-trip commute to school, so by the end of the week I've beaten the tape to death. This week's tape was dominated completed by Drexciya, who are like the greatest group ever. Every time their tracks came on I had to struggle to stay below 70 [on suburban roads]. And, I'm a huge advocate of this: keeping one's collection lean and mean. I spend as much time hunting down records as most folks on this list, but I also turn over a huge part of what I get, and I also don't buy things I'm fairly sure I won't like or will only be 50/50 on. If even an extremely obscure record comes out these days that is very strong, you'll hear a lot about it. Thusly, selective buying, and especially selective keeping is what does it for me. If I ever had more than 1,000ish records I'd feel like a total jerk. Aside from Drexciya the picks of the week are the Gimmik 12", the F. Schikowski 10" on Lux Nigra, and the M-Tec remix on the Multicast 10". However, all the other Multicast tracks were really boring. So thusly, I'm not keeping those records. Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org