Desert Island Music Challenge...Day 30

Well, here I am on the last day of my 30 day Desert Island Music Challenge. I made my list, and for the last 30 days I have only listened to the music of 10 CD's I chose (see earlier posts). I will admit, over the last few days there are a few songs, and albums I have started to tire of. Ironically, the ones that are wearing on my most are the two rock icons, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon, and the Who's Quadrophenia. Don't get me wrong, I am still huge fans of these albums, but Pink Floyd especially, and the Who also are very hard to listen to on shuffle (which is how I usually do my music) since a lot of the songs on these 2 albums flow into each other...makes for a choppy shuffle.

Also as we go into day 30, I look at my 25 Most Played playlist (which iTunes automatically formulates based on what songs play) 21 of the songs on this year's list are now from my desert island list. What is interesting is that only 9 of the 10 albums show up in the top 25, which is strange because I thought the shuffle was giving everything fair play. But somehow Simon & Garfunkel is missing from top 25...So when I leave for work in a few minutes, I will make sure they get some play.

Talk to you soon with what I listen to tomorrow when I'm "off the island".

I DO want to play this one: Desert Island Challenge Continued

Wow, that is a long title.  Anyway we are at July 4th. On June 16th I started my Desert Island Playlist challenge.  I challenged several of my Facebook friends to make a list of the 10 CDs they would take with them on a desert island, and then I challenged them to make a playlist of these albums for their iPod and listen to just those ten albums for one month.

Well here I am at the end of day 19...way further than I thought I'd survive.  But I guess I did a good job picking my top ten.  Sometimes I put the playlist on song shuffle, but mostly I have been playing the whole albums through  These are great albums  One thing that has surprised me is how slowly these songs have been cracking my ipod's 25 Most Played list.  This shows me that maybe I concentrate on certain songs a lot of the time, but now slowly the desert Island list is cracking that top 25.  We'll see how the next 11 days go.

And if you want to play along, any time is fine to start.  Come join me on the desert island.

I don't want to play anymore

As we are now a full six months into the year, I look at my New Year's Resolutions, and the chart I have tried so vigorously to keep up with despite the obstacles. And I say "I don't want to play anymore"  I have been steadily spiraling away from my goals and points on the chart, and I realize that I have missed a week all together somehow.  It was very fun at first, but has become very discouraging.

I am going to try to get focused on writing again, hopefully before my brief vacation in two weeks.  Also going to try to get back to reading...but I am putting the chart away, as it has become discouraging, and I am deciding that what I need to do, I need to do for ME, not some chart.  Thank you all for your encouragement and support, I'll still be here for you, just maybe ot quite so often.