I have more music then I know what to do with.  I like to sit at my computer and listen to my entire library on random, however I find myself skipping anywhere from 10 to 20 tracks before it lands on something I want to listen to. My library is 197GB. I don’t think that accumulating this much music is that crazy, but I have a lot of stuff on there I will never listen to.  I don’t like 80′s glam metal so my four Skid Row albums can go.  Hmmm what else…

…Well I just spent the last 20 minutes going through my music trying to decide what to delete. And here is where the problem lies. I can’t do it. I don’t like Skid Row,  I don’t need numerous punk splits from the early 80s, I don’t need an album of animal sounds, and I probably don’t need 27 albums of the Carter Family from the 1920′s to 50′s.  But when it comes down to it, I want them.  So maybe this will have to happen another day.  Until then here is a lovely piece of classical music.

Taking pictures of things is something I have very recently gotten into.  I got my first camera for Christmas and it is a Canon Rebel t2i. It looks like this.

Over the past two months I have been reading as much as I possibly can on three things: photography, Abode Lightroom, and Adobe Photoshop. I have to admit I don’t really know what the hell I am doing but I figure if I take learning the programs slowly and I go out and shoot a lot, I’ll get there eventually. In the past two months I have shot over 3,000 photos. 500 are worth keeping on my computer, about 200 are worth showing to anyone and even less then that will make it to any kind of internet publication, or my flickr account.  For anyone interested I have a tumblr blog where I post my pictures at http://idlehand.tumblr.com/.  Not all the pictures on there are my own, just most. You’ll see photo updates regularly.  Word up.

This is where I work 5 nights out of the week.

The first time I saw the second video here, I laughed so hard I started crying. It is a video response to the video above it. Watch the first one if you want to give yourself an idea of where the second video is coming from.

So I have been running more and more as I grow older. I tried exercising in gyms but I end up finding a reason never to go. So from now on I wake up and the first thing I do after getting my lazy ass out of bed is to go on a run!! So what music to listen to? I keep my ipod on random and hold it in my hand for the quick song change. Of course there are songs that work and others that don’t. I have my playlist saved from the run I just went on and here are some examples of songs that didn’t work:
Avett Brothers – Ten Thousand Words

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Do Make Say Think – Classic Noodlanding

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Here are some songs that really worked for me:

Gadget – The Anchor

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Unearth – Endless

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In conclusion, when I want to exercise I should listen to Metal. Actually there was a lady gaga and a daft punk song that came on that were really nice to run too. So metal and dance.

My original idea for this blog was to keep it strictly about music. But as I get into other hobbies that are not music related I have put this little project of mine to the wayside. So I figure now I would write and share about anything I want. Screw just keeping it to music cause music sucks anyways. So, how about the weather we have been having lately?