Links to the past:
30,000th Journal
20,000th Journal
15,000th Journal
10,000th Journal

I got lazy and skipped a 40,000th journal.
School has been in full swing for a good three months now, the term is over and now it's time to sit back, relax and become even more unmotivated to do anything that requires effort. My motivation to listen to music has been in a mood swing, there are weeks where I'll listen to 200+ plays of an artist in one week and then I'll hit a couple weeks or so where the total combined plays are around the area…

Bumbershoot
I keep going to write this journal but can't. Here's try number…. three?

Well I live in Portland, Oregon and had to trek up to Seattle, Washington. Mainly, I had decided to go to see Stone Temple Pilots. I knew artists by name such as Thao with The Get Down Stay Down, Two Gallants, John Vanderslice and I had listen to a couple tracks from artists such as Beck, Battles and The Black Keys so I figured it'd be money well worth spent (or whatever that saying is). I worked until midnight thirty the day of Bumbershoot and I…

Thu 3 Jul – Punch Brothers, Chris Thile

I went walking into the Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon expecting great Bluegrass music from Nickel Creek's very own Chris Thile, I had many good things about his former group and also his own mandolin player, the success he's had at such a young age, etc. But I didn't expect to be as blown away as I was.

I don't care what kind of music you're into.
You can love death metal, you can rock out to the hardcore emo scene or bop along to the bubblegum pop but I really…

I've hit 30,000 tracks and it seems like it's been forever since I hit "a milestone" but I also refused to do this type of blog for the 25,000 mark… maybe to make the change between 20,000 and 30,000 look more drastic. Works for me, so onward to the mumbo jumbo that is me analyzing my own chart progress.

Supposed 30,000th track:Ohio

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THE PAST

Recap:: 10,000 Tracks:
1) A Perfect Circle 665 plays
2) Tool
3) Stone Temple Pilots 320 plays
4) Broken Social Scene 244 plays
5) Zwan 206 plays
6) Paz Lenchantin 197 plays
7) Porcupine…

It's been almost two years since I've had my last.fm account and I have now hit 20,000 tracks played =) Yay for me. So I figure I'll do the typical "5,000" more tracks played and I'll try to keep it simple. It's mainly just for my records so I can see how my listening habits have progressed or…. stayed the same. Sigh.

20,000 Track: Hallelujah <3<3<3

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THE PAST

Recap:: 10,000 Tracks:
1) A Perfect Circle 665 plays
2) Tool
3) Stone Temple Pilots 320 plays
4) Broken Social Scene 244 plays
5) Zwan 206 plays
6) Paz Lenchantin 197…

So I don't forget because I have SUCH A HUGE amount of concerts that I saw last year, I'll write a late night journal in honor of this.

Metric: March 25th, 2006
I was visiting Portland, OR for a couple days during my spring break so I could preview Portland State University =D. Emily Haines was amazing. It was an awesome "first concert" if I don't say so myself. My friend even passed out, how much better does it get than that? Hardly. Well…you know.

The Who: October 10th, 2006
I was stoked to get an email that…

I am trying to be optimistic about losing my hard drive. It was only a night ago when my hard drive made a very loud noise and completely died on me =( So now with 30 GB worth of hard drive lost and 18 of that music, I'm going to be starting fresh in a couple days.

This means that I'll be working hard to recover my digital music collection, putting my CDs and my friends' CDs back onto my computer and this also includes downloads. This is why I'm writing this journal. You!

Does anyone have some good recommendations…

I figured since the season of giving is happening tomorrow and I'll be getting gift cards galore and various other goodies, I'd make a list containing the albums I put in my possession. I know I won't remember all of those CDs that I purchased in 2006, but it's interesting to see how many I can remember. =) Although it's really hard to think back to the beginning of the year since I didn't keep tabs, I'll do my best to make this list as accurate as possible…

Kind of makes me realize that I didn't get as many as…

College has given me a lot of free time to listen to my music. 4 months and about a week ago on July 25th, 2006 I reached 10,000 tracks. Last night, I realized that I hit the 15,000 mark. My chart is full of changes, with old bands moving down or up and new ones being stuffed in. For example, The Who was in the thirties, now in my Top 10. Some artists have climbed a lot while the ones I used to be "obsessed" with went down my charts.

With 10,000 tracks I had predicted possible Handsome Boy Modeling…

I got off of the Max and headed towards the stadium, went into line and picked up the tickets. Slapped acrossed the middle read, "THE WHO". Looking back a couple months ago, I would of never told you that I would of happened to have the oppurtunity to see Classic Rock legends. I would of never been able to tell you that I had seen Baba O'Reily performed live. But now I can, proudly.

An email from Rose Quarter announced a 20 dollar sale and I ran down the hall to tell my friends that we should go.…