This all started as a game with my music collection. Each week I'd listen to another past year's music. Well, I couldn't stop there. I had to look up what was happening in gaming, books, and film too.
So I'm going to watch the film Sid and Nancy, play Dragon Warrior (if I can get a copy at Jay Street tomorrow), and not read any of the books because I'm still finishing Conie Willis' All Clear and about to start Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October; not to mention trying to finish Snee's Crumbling Sky novel. But if I had the time, I'd like to read Adrian Edmonson's How to be a Complete Bastard. Adrian played punk Vyvyan on The Young Ones. A brit com also staring Rik Mayall. They worked together on other projects as well, and I thought both of them really funny. Why not a book too?
As for the music, there's a lot of it. At the time, I listened to Tony Bank's Soundtracks album, Peter Gabriel's So, Sting's Bring on the Night and Genesis' Invisible Touch, but I added a lot more to the list of things I"d like to hear in every type of genre. I have 77 titles. About 15 I own, and I think I can get about 7 more from the library. I hope to find others at various used record stores as the week goes on. I really find it fun to listen to all these albums on shuffle on my ipod. I get to thinking about the year in question. It's nostalgic, but it's also allows me to rehash things I did in my life and figure out what was good and what wasn't. Music is a great way to bring back a flood of memories.
That's such a great idea. I made a couple playlists in Spotify based on music I liked starting in 1990. Might look at all the best media from that time on and see what was up.
I'm wondering how deep you can go with Spotify. Can you select individual albums, all in a playlist, and then play them in shuffle mode? I wonder what's available there too. I really like access to everything. I'm going to take a looksee at Spotify sometime.
If you pay for it, I believe you can in fact just listen to full albums. Forget what all comes free, but on a home PC I believe it's everything but with ads.
I'll give it a look. It would be less time consuming to go all streaming with music, but I have to have access to deep album cuts. I don't like just listening to hits.
I could grow up all over again! I could start with Atari, play with my old GI Joe toys to represent the crash years, and pick up with the NES lol.
Yea, "growing up all over again". I keep thinking I should be disinterested in this stuff as an adult, but I'm actually fascinated with it. I'm not playing with my Hotwheels again though. That stuff's for kids. LOL However, I kind of live my Hotwheels fantasies at work, now I think of it.
sometimes I have dreams where I'm playing with my GI JOe's and Star wars figures like I used to.
I recently bought the "Art of He-Man" art book from Dark Horse. It was phenomenal and took me back to my childhood. The memories were buried so deeply I wasn't even sure at first if I had really seen some of that artwork as a kid, or if I was just imagining things.
I really liked He-Man. it was very imaginative. It's funny, that shit existed just to sell toys, but there's still art buried inside it.
I used to play games with my Hotwheels that were almost exactly like what I'm doing now. I'd move cars along a rug with patterns like roads, and I'd drive them around the patterns, and imagine the cars had places to go. Sometimes I think that your childhood games dictate, or foretell, your adult life. My life with cars is something I may write more about.