Let's put music and movies here. They are true art forms and I find beauty in them. They occupy a lot of my time and perhaps reveal something about my persona.
And there's a lot, a lot of movie reviews I've written over the years. The vast majority of my movie reviews are right here in this blog, but I have a few lengthier reviews have been approved and published on IMDB.
And there's a lot of music I've collected and commented on over the years.
I'm not a big reader, but if you keep decent records, you'll find you read quite a lot over the years.
Something I'm always thinking and talking about is the challenge of organizing my music collection. My alias PJMixer comes from my joy of making mixed tapes (when they were a thing). When I began to digitize music and use iTunes, I spent endless hours normalizing genres, rating tracks and using the "grouping" attribute to define which track was upbeat versus mellow. I used all of this to create highly complex smart playlists that kept us entertained for years. This began to get more complicated when my wife decided she wanted her own iTunes library and when the kids developed tastes of their own. But the biggest change agent was Apple Music. How do you continue to organize music when you have access to everything. The other observation about music I've had over the last few years is that most people don't declutter music. If you liked a band or a album at some point in your life, why would that ever change, wouldn't you always have that joy of old music with you. And if you're anything like me, I'm always discovering new music, so the collection of favourite music keeps growing and growing. That's a constant challenge today, but it doesn't stop me from making a yearly best of mix.
I'm not a big reader, but if you keep decent records, you'll find you read quite a lot over the years.
Something I'm always thinking and talking about is the challenge of organizing my music collection. My alias PJMixer comes from my joy of making mixed tapes (when they were a thing). When I began to digitize music and use iTunes, I spent endless hours normalizing genres, rating tracks and using the "grouping" attribute to define which track was upbeat versus mellow. I used all of this to create highly complex smart playlists that kept us entertained for years. This began to get more complicated when my wife decided she wanted her own iTunes library and when the kids developed tastes of their own. But the biggest change agent was Apple Music. How do you continue to organize music when you have access to everything. The other observation about music I've had over the last few years is that most people don't declutter music. If you liked a band or a album at some point in your life, why would that ever change, wouldn't you always have that joy of old music with you. And if you're anything like me, I'm always discovering new music, so the collection of favourite music keeps growing and growing. That's a constant challenge today, but it doesn't stop me from making a yearly best of mix.
I recently made my first "educational" YouTube video showing some of the ways I organize my music.
I love to find new music. I’ve written 15 "Where I find new music" posts in the past 10 years (the latest on July 4, 2020) on the various sources I’ve found for discovering new music. If you're looking for new music, perhaps this link to my discovery posts may be of interest.
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