Soooooo....I made a New Years resolution, that I would make an attempt to either run or write every day- as I know doing either of these things makes me feel better, mentally and well as physically. Running literally involves putting on shoes and leaving, and writing requires neither of those, so the ability to do one or the other is really easy, and the choice to do neither will be mine alone. I know I will not be able to do it every day, but the goal is to get in the habit of doing one or the other, and on days where I can motivate myself, I'll try to do both. Like today. But it's January 1, so we should probably hold off on the celebratory handjobs for a few days...
...so I'm attempting to create a musical soundtrack of my life. It started pretty innocently- I was looking through old assignments I gave out when I was a teacher, and one of the assignments that worked out better in my head than in real life was having students create a musical soundtrack of their lives. There were exceptions, obviously, but as a standard, they were pretty fucking bad. When I was reading them, I was actually stunned at not just how terrible their taste in music was (and I did tell them to stay the hell off my lawn, so there's that), bit also how incomplete their assignments were- it was like they hadn't put in the effort to get the assignment done.
I now understand the problem- it's a way, way harder assignment than I 1) wanted them to do and 2) than I ever thought it might be. I know this because I decided to try the assignment myself. To be fair, my assignment, although I did make them *explain* why songs they chose mattered, I am not planning on doing that, due to the emotional weight some of the music would take on me for having to relive through explanation, as well as the sheer length of what I imagine to be a massive amount of very diverse music. Their assignment had either a time limit or a song limit, depending on the year assigned, and I'm old as fuck, so I don't adhere to the time constraints of youth.
And this is going to be a process...I'm only in the classic soul to 80's alternative phase (into my freshman year of high school) and I have eliminated over 300 songs, have kind of isolated down to a few key artists and or songs from that period, and I'm hoping to be able to lock down some of the songs, with the ultimate goal to put it on Spotify, which is something to do with this 6 months free I have done literally nothing with....
Let's see how this goes...
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