Oh damn, my clicky fingers!

[xraytheenforcer]

Due to partitioning issues on our main drives, we are running out of space on our music partition. At one point last weekend I think we had 24kb free in the partition. But we're not actually short of drive space -- we have 2 internal drives and 2 external drives kicking around.

One of these external drives, an 80GB LaCie, is chock full of crap. First, it has a backup of my iTunes from work (and we already have most of that stuff here at home). Second, it has a backup of my brother's iTunes, which is mostly useless because 1) it's full of singles instead of whole albums, 2) there are many, many duplicates and 3) it's almost all music I am not into. I mean, there's some legacy stuff in there (All, the Slits, TSOL, DRI, Dr. Dooom, Dead Milkmen, Mojo Nixon, etc) that make me smile. But most of it is modern pop-punk and 3rd wave ska -- leftovers from when my brother was a professional radio DJ -- which is not my cup of tea (nor Doug's). So I've just spent the last 2 hours filtering through the 65GB of music, deleting everything that displeases me. And by-gods, my right-clicky finger is displeased with me.

An aside: I am glad I never went the professional radio route the way my brother and some of my friends did. My friends who stayed in the Bay Area had playlists they had to stick to, which is odious. My brother was the only DJ at his station who had free reign with his playlist (because he was the demographic they were targeting and they trusted his instincts). I might have had a lower listenership (30,000 or so at my university gig, 1,000 during high school, rather than a couple million), but I also had the freedom to play Neurosis followed by the Plasmatics, followed by the Pharcyde. Funny, also, that I ended up with a former DJ for a spouse in the bargain. Ha. Who else on my flist (jonsiron , yes?) is a current or former radio DJ? How many exams did you bomb because you had the dreaded 2-6am shift? (and did you ever get from your classmates "hey, loved your show last night! I was listening to it while I studied!" And did it make you want to punch them?)

Comments

[misunderstruck.livejournal.com]

bassmike and pippingeek were DJs at WVFI along with Ron and I.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Jesus, I'm surrounded by you VFI people! :p

[bassmike.livejournal.com]

YES YOU ARE SURRENDER NOW

[peadarog.livejournal.com]

All sounds very painful. My instinct would have been to just delete the whole lot, sight unseen and to Ashgamuff with the consequences.

[scbutler.livejournal.com]

I have a daughter who was once a college DJ. As was my ex. Do they count?

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

yes.

[metzhead.livejournal.com]

my "I won the lottery so I can retool my life" job would be to do the http://www.snsmix.com/ "Scratch and Sniff" show, but do it better. The two guys mash up hip hop and rock tunes for two hours every Saturday night. Great concept, mediocre execution.

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

Is it free reign or is it free rein?
*foreigner wants to know*

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

there seems to be some debate, with some sources accepting both -- but I'll cop to making the spelling error. It should be "free rein."

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

Was genuinely wondeirng if my horsey mind was inventing things, is all.

I see free reign everywhere so.......

[catrionamacnair.livejournal.com]

I started digitalizing my cds because that means taking a mobile harddrive instead of two suitcases full of cds. It is frankly embarrassing what I bought at some points.

It is even more embarrassing that I found a HIM cd that was way too fun to listen to for my current state of intoxication.

Regardless of this embarrassing confession, I always felt that deleting files has a certain satisfactory touch to it. Behold the Executioner of a Bad Use of Computer Capacity, and all that.