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cleaning out my library

So I’ve realized that not only am I sucker for bad television but I’m also a sucker for bad music.  It is so hard to clean out my iTunes library because I can always imagine a circumstance in which I’ll want to listen to that music.  It was really hard for me to delete the Beach Boys “Kokomo” today.  I NEVER listen to that song, but whenever I play it to delete it, I end up keeping it.  Partly because it reminds me of that Full House episode when they go to Hawaii and get to go on stage with the Beach Boys and partly because one time Tony and I were singing it at his parents house and his mom asked us if we were singing church songs — which I find hilarious.

Also, I can’t bring myself to delete any of my cheesy Brian McKnight slow jams.  Too much nostalgia associated with them.

I also can’t streamline my Asian music even though I rarely listen to it anymore.  Anytime I start sorting through them, I start getting into the mood to listen to them.  So I keep them, and I don’t listen to any of them until the next time I’m trying to streamline my music library.

And the new obnoxious funky electro house music I’ve acquired this year?  I keep imagining throwing a huge rave party with lots of white and neon and lots of people wearing sunglasses at night and I think it’d be the perfect music for something like that.

I also have crazy rock music that I think would go well with house painting or a snowboarding video that I might make in the future so I don’t delete those tracks either.

So I’m stuck with a fat, inconsistent iTunes library.  I really only listen to 50% of it.  Maybe less.

You know how women are susceptible to osteoporosis?  Well turns out, Asians are especially susceptible.  So yeah, double jeopardy.  I really need to start taking my one-a-day vitamins.  When I was in elementary school someone told me that their dad ate too many vitamins and he grew a sixth finger on his right hand.  I’ve always felt uneasy about vitamins since then.

I’ve deleted the past 3 posts I’ve written so I’m going to go ahead and publish this one even though it’s… yeah, pressing publish right now.

There’s no real need to delete your music anymore unless the shear amount is slowing you down from finding the songs you want. With hard drives as big as they are and growing, I don’t think space will ever be an issue ever again.

I like to sync my entire music library with my iPhone and with all the podcasts and videos I also want to put on there, I don’t have enough space for it all. I think I just need to cowboy up and press delete more often.