my Thursday
― Ita Buttrock (sic), Friday, 8 April 2011 11:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah right, through the wekend too. Righto.
Thing is, we're on a long journey, so I can furnish you with the playlist which is individual tracks, as well as particular albums too...
― Mark G, Friday, 8 April 2011 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Go for it, dude. It's not (just) for me; it's for you; for anyone who reads it.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 April 2011 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
95 blogs etc involved now. http://sickmouthy.com/2011/04/04/musicdiaryproject-whos-taking-part/
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 April 2011 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man, this is the first I've heard of this, and I totally would've done it.
― jaymc, Friday, 8 April 2011 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Join in anyway! Diarise today and the weekend. I'm going to put a survey together and send it out on Monday.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 April 2011 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://sickmouthy.com/2011/04/08/thursdays-listening/
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 April 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
my Friday
― $47 value (sic), Saturday, 9 April 2011 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Friday's listening - http://sickmouthy.com/2011/04/09/fridays-listening/
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 9 April 2011 06:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I made a survey for people who've been taking part - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NFWHLSQ
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 9 April 2011 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link
y'day! http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/4462861867/music-diary-project-8-4-11
― lex pretend, Saturday, 9 April 2011 09:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Where are you when you do most of your listening, Lex? What's the room like?
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 9 April 2011 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
my bedroom unless otherwise stated. untidy. i tend to work/listen here because my music's all on an external HD and lugging both that and the laptop around every time i want to go somewhere else is not the one.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 9 April 2011 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
the one to get played like a poop-butt
― $47 value (sic), Saturday, 9 April 2011 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Day Five: http://troubleddiva.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/music-diary-project-%E2%80%93-day-five/
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 9 April 2011 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
mr. sick mouthy - what're your overall intentions w/ this project? are there any specific questions you aim to answer?
― kelpolaris, Saturday, 9 April 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Eid ma clack shaw.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 9 April 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
And here's Day Six: http://troubleddiva.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/music-diary-project-%e2%80%93-day-six/
(Weekend listening differs from weekday listening in several ways, as today proved.)
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 9 April 2011 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Lying Around Listening To Music All Day Linked To Depression
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 April 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah - i think it's troubling when music i usually enjoy i no longer can derive pleasure from. music acts as such a ~high~ for me... much more successful at completely transporting me into my own mind than any other medium (movies, books, videogames i guess). so when i'll listen to a song i usually find such solace in and that it does fuck-all for me but seem to obstruct me from hearing my environment does that sorta act as like the biological blue-screen of death: YOU ARE DEPRESSED
― kelpolaris, Saturday, 9 April 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Saturday, confirming that weekend listening is very different to weekdays.
― the George Washington of butts (sic), Sunday, 10 April 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
y'day http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/4489093353/music-diary-project-9-4-11
quite dull really, there's only so much you can say re: "i had to stay in all day and was grumpy about it and this is what i tried to work to"
it'll be a rinse and repeat for today too fml fml
― lex pretend, Sunday, 10 April 2011 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd like to know too, it's not been unenjoyable but i don't really know why anyone would be interested in my entries. i mean, it's all on last.fm anyway, anyone who cares can go there...?
― lex pretend, Sunday, 10 April 2011 07:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Saturday's listening - http://sickmouthy.com/2011/04/10/saturdays-listening/
My motivations will be revealed when I write up my "conclusion" circa Monday / Tuesday.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 10 April 2011 08:20 (thirteen years ago) link
It would be good if 'Generally, how much of your attention did you give to the music you listened to?' was separated out a bit more and gave options for occasionally, often etc. for each option. I put down 'Some of my attention' as an average but it's so dependant on what the other activity I was doing is that that doesn't really cover it.
― if, Sunday, 10 April 2011 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Aye, I'd have liked to have gone into more detail, plus gone for demographic data, genre data, how many artists, how often each artist, etc etc etc, but you're limited to ten questions on Survey Monkey unless you pay for a pro account.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 10 April 2011 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
And here's Day Seven: http://troubleddiva.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/music-diary-project-%e2%80%93-day-seven/
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 10 April 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
last day: http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/4506762203/music-diary-project-10-4-11
enjoyed doing this in the week, hated doing it at the weekend (partly because i hated having to stay in and write all weekend) ("write") (AAARGH FUCKING CUNTING WRITING)
― lex pretend, Sunday, 10 April 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
if anyone was remotely interested do let me know why btw, cuz i can't fathom it
actually any PRs lurking around should definitely be on it (though it hasn't been a promo-heavy week at all)
― lex pretend, Sunday, 10 April 2011 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
already not sure about what to tick for your survey nick - re: formats, i thought all the live music i'd seen this week would fall under "other" but i guess the DJs i saw would have been playing off CDs and/or vinyl a lot? so would that count? i didn't play any CDs or vinyl myself.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 10 April 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
actually the next one is tough too, my listening set-up is a hi-fi system (separates) plugged into my laptop where my music files are so wtf do i tick?
― lex pretend, Sunday, 10 April 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
aw poor journalist having to write, must be so hard for you
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 10 April 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Filled out the survey. This was an interesting idea sick mouthy; I'm looking forward to your reactions/conclusions.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 11 April 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Reading some of these is kind of interesting, in a non-stalker-way. It's like a more intimate version of last.fm scrobbling.
― The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Monday, 11 April 2011 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://mookieproof.tumblr.com/post/4514714040/musicdiaryproject-thursday-to-sunday
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 April 2011 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I found them interesting, Lex! Just as a glimpse into someone else's listening habits. It gave me... I dunno... a bit more context, I suppose. I liked the way that you played favourite new tracks several times in a day; I used to do that a lot, but almost never these days, not sure why.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 11 April 2011 09:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Here are my week's entries: http://abegrand.pitas.com/
― A. Begrand, Monday, 11 April 2011 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
All done:
http://runningthevoodoodown.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-music-diary.html
― that's not funny. (unperson), Monday, 11 April 2011 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I was trying to post the contents of a spotify playlist, but the best I managed was a bunch of url links, not good.
― Mark G, Monday, 11 April 2011 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
it'd be fun to have a "day in the life of ______" for some of these
― Crackle Box, Monday, 11 April 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked the way that you played favourite new tracks several times in a day; I used to do that a lot, but almost never these days, not sure why.
it was quite a low week for that tbh! didn't have a great deal of time for it as was either running around town or listening to music for work for much of it. this is an example of how obsessive i can get about favourite new tracks: http://www.last.fm/user/lexpretend/library/music/Ciara/_/Wants+For+Dinner
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 April 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Thinking on, Fridays journey also had: Leon Kings' that one w/sexonfire and that one that starts Boomwoobwooobwoob...
Journey back (sunday) had: Badly Drawn Boy's "what I'm thinking", Crystal Castles 2, PlanB, ummm...that's it.
― Mark G, Monday, 11 April 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
62 people have taken the survey. I'm gonna write up my conclusion today.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 05:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Just been linked to some Mexican blogs that took part, writing in Spanish. Haven't a fucking clue what they said.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
http://sickmouthy.com/2011/04/12/what-was-the-musicdiaryproject-for/
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
haha never mind me from over the weekend, i was just really grumpy what with my mountain of work etc, which made thinking about the whys and wheres of what i listened to more annoying than usual cuz it was just a bit dull. i enjoyed it during my (unusually varied) week!
I spend £10 on an album, that an artist may have sweated blood to produce, and then I pay it scant attention while I chop onions, or edit photos, or drive to the shops, or… If I love music so much, doesn’t it deserve a little more than that?
i'd flip this - i listen to music when i'm travelling or working out or internetting or tidying my room, and it's actually the latter activities i'm paying scant attention to - i rarely listen exclusively to music, but it takes something i really need to concentrate on to divert my attention away from it to the extent you imply.
which may explain a lot, from my dislike of cooking to my ability to get lost 5 minutes from my own house :/
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
also i was way more interested in the specifics what people listened to - but then i already think about how i listen to music a lot of the time already. i was interested to see how people chose to soundtrack similar activities to mine, like travelling and just wandering around getting lunch, and how that compared with what i'd chosen.
i'm also surprised to see that so few (anyone?) were as affected by the weather as i am!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Had an interesting conversation with my boss, who took part, and used to be a music editor at The Big Issue, and he was really intrigued by how I deliberately picked ambient music to work to for its utility and purpose; I do definitely have a mental checklist of albums (and a pretty extensive playlist on the iPod) that I know wont distract me but will fill space and comfort me.
But yeah, I do cook to music, and wonder what activity I'm paying attention to; and the answer is both neither and both.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Who's up for this again?
http://sickmouthy.com/2012/03/05/music-diary-2012/
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 5 March 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link