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Clean Freak

Aug 21, 2005 Print This Post

//MOOD: Tired
//TIVO: Surreal Life

My wife has been cleaning the house for the last week. And by “cleaning the house,” I mean CLEANING THE HOUSE. She is overhauling the house from top to bottom. We have a trailer in our garage packed with trash, we took a vanload of stuff to Goodwill, and our house has never looked less cluttered. Amazing.

The craziest part of this madness was sorting through boxes of stuff that we have accumulated over 10 years of marriage. It was fun to watch my wife read love letters I wrote her a decade ago and then…

…watching her throw them away.

She’s such a romantic.

Anyhoo, over the last several days I have sorted through every CD I own. I kept hundreds and threw away hundreds and hundreds. Mostly, they were old radio promotion CDs that weren’t worth the discs they were printed on.

So, today I loaded a bunch of old CDs into iTunes. Mostly, they were songs I haven’t heard in so long that I wanted to hear them again. Some of these will stay on my computer for awhile, some won’t last a few days. I know this is opening me up for persecution, but I thought I would list the CDs I loaded. This is probably going to age me a bit.

77′s – Drowning With Land in Sight
77′s – Pray Naked
Adam Again – Homeboys
Allies – The River
Barenaked Ladies – Stunt
Chagall Guevara – Chagall Guevara
Charlie Peacock – Lie Down in the Grass
Duran Duran – Decade
Edin-�dahl – Big Talk
Erasure – The Innocents
Everything But The Girl – Acoustic
Faith No More – The Real Thing
Idle Cure – Breakaways
Jesus Jones – Right Here, Right Now
Lenny Kravitz – Mama Said
Lost Dogs – Scenic Routes
Mad At The World – Flowers in the Rain
Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell II – Back Into Hell
The Mighty Lemon Drops – Laughter
Moby – All That I Need Is To Be Loved
Modern English – Pillow Lips
New Order – Low-Life
Charlie Peacock – The Secret of Time
Charlie Peacock – West Coast Diaries Volume One
Charlie Peacock – West Coast Diaries Volume Three
Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour (Disc 1)
Pet Shop Boys – Introspective
Petra – Petra Means Rock
Poor Old Lu – Mindsize
Poor Old Lu – Sin
The Psychedelic Furs – World Outside
R.E.M. – Automatic For The People
R.E.M. – Document
R.E.M. – Green
R.E.M. – Monster
R.E.M. – Out of Time
Sixpence None The Richer – Tickets For A Prayer Wheel
Steve Taylor – Now The Truth Can Be Told
Steve Taylor – Squint
They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18
They Might Be Giants – Flood
U2 – Achtung Baby

The cool thing is that I recently felt convicted about the songs I have downloaded illegally online. I purged a hundred songs or so off of my computer a couple weeks ago. It killed me at the time, but it’s good to have a clear conscience. And now I have craploads of music to listen to, even though I am now officially an old man because the majority of the music on my computer is old. Oh well.