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One thing I've been able to do during these nasty brain fog episodes is work on my iTunes collection. When I can't think straight enough to write a coherent sentence or follow a movie plot, I can listen to music. I got high speed internet this year, so I was FINALLY able to use my various iTunes gift cards to download songs.

As most of you know, I will listen to just about anything. Thought it would be amusing to list all the artists I've downloaded this year. Some of these represent more than one song:

Snow Patrol
Lostprophets
Arctic Monkeys
Keane
The Raconteurs
Three Days Grace
Disturbed
Ok Go
30 Seconds to Mars
Blue October
Nelly Furtado
Fergie
The All-American Rejects
Evanescence
The Killers
Gnarls Barkley
Nickelback
My Chemical Romance
Fort Minor
+44
Sean Paul
Rob Thomas
Army of Anyone
Revery
AFI
Incubus
Angels & Airwaves
Stone Sour
Marty Casey & Lovehammers
Jack Johnson
Christina Aguilera
Breaking Benjamin
Crossfade
Nine Inch Nails
Papa Roach
Rise Against
John Mayer
Jerry Lee Lewis
Neil Young
Godsmack
Korn
Flyleaf
KT Tunstall
P!nk
Gwen Stefani
Scissor Sisters
Sting
Saliva
Hellogoodbye
Black Stone Cherry
Ludacris
Weezer
Seether
System of a Down
Angels & Airwaves
Hinder
10 Years
P.O.D.
Drowning Pool
The Suicide Machines
The Hives
Chevelle
Rage Against the Machine
Social Distortion
MXPX
Avenged Sevenfold
Dixie Chicks
Fall Out Boy
Sixpence None The Richer
Sugar Ray
Barenaked Ladies
Ace of Base
Bowling for Soup
Goldfinger
The Presidents of the United States of America
Reel Big Fish
Bow Wow Wow
Frickin' A
CASCADA
B*Witched
The Wallflowers
Save Ferris
Ziggy Marley
UB40
Jason Mraz
Brooks & Dunn
Dwight Yoakam
Asleep At the Wheel
Alabama
Rick Springfield
The Donnas
Brad Paisley
Wheatus
Mark McGrath
Limp Bizkit
Kill Hannah
Kevin Dubrow (Quiet Riot), Tracii Guns (L.A. Guns) & Gilby Clark (ex-G N' R)
They Might Be Giants
Living Colour
Dope
Authority Zero
Nerf Herder
Lit
Love/Hate
Ben Folds
Gary Hoey
Angel
Gorillaz
Shinedown
Plain White T's
Foo Fighters
Death Cab for Cutie
Less Than Jake
Rogue Traders
Rock Kills Kid
Bullet for My Valentine
The Bouncing Souls
Lily Allen
The Fratellis
Daughtry
Smile Empty Soul
Carrie Underwood
Smashing Pumpkins
Linkin Park
Kelly Clarkson
The White Stripes
Finger Eleven
Velvet Revolver
Ozzy Osbourne
Maroon 5
Nonpoint
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Pearl Jam
Dishwalla
Bush
Green Day
12 Stones
Kaiser Chiefs
Fair to Midland
Colbie Caillat
Collective Soul
Live
The Prodigy
Avril Lavigne
Goldfrapp
Yellowcard
A Perfect Circle
Audioslave
Switchfoot
Marvelous 3
Fuel
Oasis

There are probably 150 more songs I'd like to download. Some are new, but most would be to fill out playlists for pop from the '50's, '60's and '70's. Since my budget is tight, I've put this on hold, but should I get anymore gift cards, you know I'll be back on the virtual music store, heh heh.

Speaking of playlists, I've made CDs of them and am now dubbing the CDs onto audio cassettes so I can play them in the car. The songs from this decade are pretty much sorted by year, but the older stuff gets some more specialized categories, like cover songs, alt/rock, even one Gen-X type playlist I call "shredder tunes". Unfortunately, since my computer crashed last year, it does not recognize the CDs I made prior, so while it is awesome I can import them over again, I have to hand-type the song and artist and don't have any other data unless I want to look it all up again, which would take more brain power than I possess at the moment.

Before the Crash of 2006, I had over a week's worth of music on iTunes. I had to start over and am now up to three days' worth or about 1200 songs with probably 1000 of those being stuff from my regular music CDs. Once I have finished with the audio cassettes, I will put anything in my music library that isn't currently in a playlist into one.

My next big project is to re-import the rest of my regular music CDs, which will take some time. Then if I am smart, I should inventory those CDs as I really have no idea anymore just how many I have. I imagine the number is at least 300 invidiual discs.

I'm off to make some lunch now, humming "Rock Star" by Nickelback....