A few weeks ago I tried to fix this problem I was having with my iTunes. I had duplicates of just about every song on my computer.
It was absolutely annoying. So I fixed it. I thought.
I deleted all the duplicate files. I thought.
All the duplicate files ended up in the trash can. I hit the empty trash button. No problem, right, they were all duplicates.
The 600, or so, songs I bought from iTunes, 150 or so CDs I “archived” for the library in Englewood, Colorado, and the songs I had picked up in other ways.
I had duplicates, so I threw them away. 5,000 songs, I threw away the duplicates. No big deal. They were duplicates. Right? No, they weren’t duplicates, it just somehow seemed like the were duplicates. The five thousand songs are now 214. Depressing.
Normally, I blame that kind of thing on Violet. You know, the renaming of files, the altering of photos on iPhoto, the occasional deleted email. This one was all me. All my fault, no one to blame but myself.
The ever-so-optimistic Colleen has deemed this a positive. She wasn’t too keen to all the random crap I put on the iTunes. She has taken this as a sign that we need to update. I’ve been allowed to buy a few CDs lately. It’s so exciting, I haven’t really been in the position to purchase a new CD in a while, formula and diapers really dip in to your CD budget.
I mentioned the Mike Doughty CD purchase from a few weeks ago, we enjoy that one quite a bit. Today is Vampire Weekend. I can’t explain what they sound like. One song sounds like Adam Ant could be singing, another sounds like it could be English Beat. They sound a bit like 80s brit-pop, before the Stones Roses and Oasis came along and changed everything. I loved the Stone Roses, maybe I should put that CD back on the iTunes.
Someone on Wikipedia said that Vampire Weekend is “influenced by both African popular music and Western classical music.” I don’t see it, but whatever. You know what Michael Scott says about Wikipedia, “Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.”