The Editing Has Made My iPod My iPod

One final post, and it was going to be about how I am adding rap to my iPod, rahter than deleting it as I had been in earlier posts, but instead I wanted to do a quick blurb about how great this iPod editing has been.

iPod editing was a rollicking success, check out this random from this morning. It started with the Scofflaws, moved to Mustard Plug, All, Less Than Jake, Buzzcocks, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Snapcase, CCR, The Adicts, Less Than Jake, and finally Winnipeg's own Peopagandhi.

Yes I have come along way, but there is still the challenge of eliminating some crap, and putting on some new awesome bands.

Editing The Way I Share My iTunes

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I am super paranoid about personal property such as myiPod which I use all the time, and right now can not really afford to replace.

Whenever I am not sure exactly where my iPod is I freak out for a second, until I find it in my bag or a hoodie pocket, so I surprised myself when I lent my iPod to my friend Dillon to use at work while I was at the Bomber game.

Talk about editing, the Bombers completely deleted the Ti-Cats before adding a Grey Cup appearance in BC to their unedited story book exclusive season. But back to the iPod.

I try not to lend out stuff that I would have trouble collecting money for if I don’t absolutely have to, or it is a good friend (Cre-Comm included) but I was so happy that people at work were starting to like what I had on there I just had to lend it out, so perhaps my paranoia is subsiding.

However I will never lend it out for more than a couple hours, and I have to be within three blocks of it at all times.

Editing In The English Dogs and Other Captain Oi! Bands

I made a few more nice pick ups from Music Trader this week including Dag Nasty - Wig Out At Denko’s, and the English Dogs - Invasion Of The Porky Men. The English Dogs album was re-released on Captain Oi! Records, which is the same label The Cockney Rejects, and Major Accident. I haven’t yet researched which other bands have been on Captain Oi!, but I am now on the look out for more releases from this label.

That is one of my favourite ways to find great bands. I get a label with a lot of good bands and then I take chances on other bands from that label. This only works with independent labels, as the major ones are so all over the place in terms of what they will sign that it is difficult to tell what they are going to sound like, even if they have a history of being really good.

Some of the labels that I think are great for finding new bands, in no particular, are Asian Man, Lookout, Fat Wreck Chords, and Nitro. A few that I am weary of are Epitaph, which used to be good, but they have gone quite emo. Victory records went the same way. Those were two other labels that I could go to anytime, and for mid-nineties stuff I still do. For old rap Def Jam, and Death Row records are two of the more dependable outfits.

Oh yeah, and somehow an entire Adam Sandler CD was still one my iTunes so I got rid of that noise post haste.

Changing the Headlines I Write and Read

This headline assignment is a nice respite from the usually iPod editing, which now that I have been eliminating so many tunes from my iPod there is very little I really want to get rid o, although I think Burton Cummings still has a couple of slow stinkers I can eliminate in order to get more Dag Nasty, and whatever on this Pod, not that there is any lack of space, just inspiration.

So, to get back to the headline blog I didn't know how I was going to go about this, but then I read a few Sun headlines and I think i will edit the Sun out of my reading. The lazy side of me loves it there are no sections so you can just blow through and feel like you got all the news, but i just found out in the Winnipeg Free Press that two Argo linemen were suspended for threatening Johnny Sears, including my good friend @BIGMURPH56, who I think didn't deserve it.

Anyway I have had it up to here with ridiculous headlines, that are often misleading, and sensationalize anything that slightly interesting. I almost got sucked over to the darkside, but Duncan like a taller, and more bearded Yoda showed me the way. The Winnipeg Free Press may not be perfect, but at least challenge you with the old school newspaper format.

I also realized that my headlines are largely real sacks o' crap. Don't Tell Edigerl, what the love is that. Crap. Gotta change it, can't write with this garbage hovering over my work.

Headline Blog Writer Goes on Tangent All Sence Lost.

Addition Is The New Editing Of Choice For Me

It may sound ridiculous, but I never thought of editing anything in terms of adding to whatever I'm editing. Even after Laura's blog about the additions to her family. I got the concept, but I think a lot of us at least first think of editing as subtraction rather than addition.

My first additions came, as they usually do, from Music Trader in Osborne. Here's what I picked up:

1. Dag Nasty

My friend John doesn't like this pick up, because he thinks they are trying to bring back ghosts of Minor Threat. I agree that they do sound similar, but I like it, however maybe I edit it at a future date.

2. We're A Happy Family: A tribute to the Ramones

Some of the artists on this compilation I wouldn't buy from the 5 for 5 bucks section, but I just had to hear Eddie Vedder, and Zeke blast out I Believe In Mircles.

3. Osker - Idle Will Kill

I edited this out of my collection by never adding it in the past. I still don't know if it was a good idea, but my friends like them, so I have a feeling they will be good.

I have also been trying to edit my spending on CDs, guess that will have to be for the next entry.