iTunes.

i recently got a new computer (finally a new macbook owner. it's about time!) and i've been transferring everything from not only one, but two of my old computers to my new one. when i transferred my music over i added over 3,000 songs to iTunes. whoosh. the sight alone of the number 3,045 started giving me anxiety. i have always loved music and it is a huge part of my life but i definitely didn't understand why i have that much music. i've been obsessed with the same two artists all summer. that doesn't mean i don't occasionally turn on something else but i definitely have my favorites now. i remember being in high school and feeling like my older siblings were so boring because they didn't listen to the radio and they only listened to their favorite artists. actually i thought it was more absurd than boring. it was incomprehensible to my 14-year-old mind that they weren't getting sick of listening to the same music over and over. uh, i totally don't listen to the radio any more. i am becoming boring and strange, just like my siblings had become. now that i'm in this particular stage i realize that they probably didn't listen to the radio as much because almost every song has at least one swear or the lyrics are inappropriate. i'll be the first to admit that i still know some of the popular songs and am not as picky as i should be about my music. i'm working on it though. i've been playing a game with myself in order to clean up my new iTunes (clean up in terms of having less music and purifying). as i'm doing random things (ok lets be honest-when i'm on facebook, blogger, or instagram) i turn on shuffle and when a song comes on that i really don't care for or is inappropriate i send it straight to the trash. i realize this will take so much longer than just going through my iTunes but i really don't have the time to do that right now. so until then i will anxiously await each new song that comes on shuffle and enjoy the game of deciding if it's worthy of my time (and eternal salvation).