Fun thing about the re-rip project is time travel. Put a CD in to be converted and I thought, did enhanced CDs exist when this was released? Sure enough, track 15 was a data track. Of course! Anavoog.com from 1998 included a video and pictures. The site is still live. She’s on Instagram.

Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for my family. Grateful for love. Enjoying a slow day listening to good music, drinking good coffee, and eating good food. Wishing you the best.

So hard to love watching the Vikings play. Relieved that we won, but was so frustrating to watching a 10 point lead evaporate in the last 70 seconds of regulation play. Won by a field goal, though. Skol!

Cornflake Girl by Tori Amos

Stark examples of the benefits of vaccines: Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines

Meanwhile, Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street is now playing in the assortment of high-rated tracks I have running. Is anyone doing anything like that anymore?

I love the shoegaze and the _nu_gaze. When the guitar chords and loops get super dense in a wall-of-sound kind of way is when I love it most. The baseline and the drums carry me through. Someday if I have time and budget, I’d like to experiment with filters and reverb and a noise generator.

CD Re-Rip Discoveries:

1. Folks have helped themselves to a few. Have found empty jewel cases and gaps.
2. So much necessary clean-up. Lots of duplicate tracks stemming from a drive recovery several years ago
3. I adore Sigur Rós so much that I had already ingested the CDs with a lossless conversion

If I had a small fortune, I’d buy a bunch of CD Jewel Cases, plus archival inner and outer album sleeves. In general, stuff ages well, but some stuff is still pretty fragile.

I alphabetize my music collections, by artist, then album title. This re-rip project also helps me correct “shelving” errors. Some were minor errors putting discs back. Others have been teaching moments. If I learn something new, it’s a good day.