Katalepsis

I last checked in on August 11th. It is now November 1st. In the 2.5 months that have passed, I managed to finally complete my iTunes archive. After flying through ‘Z’, I made my way through all of the albums that begin with a number and finally ended up in the wasteland — that section at the very end of your library filled with an assortment of songs without album titles, track titles, et cetera.

After sorting it all out, I looped back around on myself to begin again at ‘A’. It is here that I find myself wading in the waters of the doctrine of eternal recurrence. This is the idea that the universe and time itself loop back around to begin again. I feel an intense sort of déjà vu. In the year and a half that it took me to go through my library, I added over 11,000 songs to my library, thanks in large part to my father-in-law. Additionally, I didn’t find AllMusic until midway through my journey, leaving thousands of tracks without proper composer information.

And so, I begin again. I am currently listening to Bruce Cockburn’s Big Circumstance. I have 11,589 tracks to go. My goal is to have it finished by August 2011. Wish me luck.

Sorry for the lack of updates. It’s been 3 1/2 months since I last checked in. I am pleased to report that I have finally finished the “S” section of my iTunes library. I can’t believe it took a quarter of a year to do it, but with the passing of Jamiroquai’s Synkronized, I can finally move on to the unauthorized selections on Van Morrison’s T.B. Sheets.

22,929 songs down. 6,076 songs to go. Until, that is, I go back and realize that I’ve added thousands of songs since I began this journey over 15 months ago. Wish me luck.