Look At Me Trying To Make A Habit Out Of This!

I’ve been trying to rediscover some music recently and can I tell you, Internets, that it is yielding some awesome sounding consequences.

As with most things, once I like something I use it to the point of breakage. My Chucks, for example. They now have holes in both sides where the lace holes are stitched into the shoe, but I still wear them several times a week. I love them and refuse to give them up until I’m walking soleless through the streets of New York City.

I end up doing the same thing with music. I find something, I listen to it, and I don’t stop until I begin to cringe at the opening chords. So I end up forgetting about it for months, if not years, and put it out of my mind. But every so often, I end up heading back to my iTunes library and rediscovering. Like when I listened to Radiohead’s OK Computer after having bought their new CD In Rainbows? I’m not embarrassed to say that Thom Yorke and company gave me a mind-blowing audial orgasm.

For the last few weeks, I’ve been listening to these CDs, one after another…

With Love and Squalor, We Are Scientists
More Adventurous, Rilo Kiley
The Photo Album and Transatlanticism, Death Cab For Cutie
Arcade Fire and Funeral, The Arcade Fire

The sad part is that I have to listen to them on my computer. My iPod is missing, somewhere hidden in my shambles of a room. I know it’s here somewhere, but I haven’t the drive or energy to look for it whenever I think of listening to it. So looking back on this paragraph, I really shouldn’t be complaining at all.

This is going to be a pretty musical month for me. Wednesday I’m seeing Moby, later this month I’m seeing Feist and Tegan and Sara, and even later than that is Mary J. Blige and Jay-Z. That isn’t even MENTIONING the new music I have to buy, like Death Cab’s new CD, out in May.

I know it is a problem worth having, especially compared to other issues, like college loans and insufferable roommates, but my life is being inundated with new and old music, and I don’t have nearly enough time to spend with it in order to listen to it all.

Woe is me?