The shoot on Friday went well, one minor equipment glitch, a strobe was not triggering but it was never solved as to source of the problem, we quickly exchanged out, new chord, new trigger device due to time constraints.  Have to remember to get out all these things to test them thoroughly.

I would like to break rank today in that I want to talk about another of my passions, music!.  I like to listen to and collect music.  Back in a day, I had a decent enough of an album collection, but an incident of water damage ruined 99% of my collection.  So I built up my Cd collection, and once the digital world and iTunes arrived in my life.  I went over to the dark side.  I know have approximately 12, 636 individual songs or files, which takes up about 192 GB and is estimated at 33 plus days of listening non-stop.   I have one friend [a former co-worker] who has a collection that dwarfs mine, he is my mentor in collecting music.

I am always on the lookout for new talent.  Being of the 60's and 70's era in terms of growing up with the classic rock genre, I struggle with much of the music of today.  There are decent enough "new" talent out there, but I do not regularly expose myself to those pathways to get enough experience to find them ...so few ever make my list. 

To counteract this, I am downloading the weekly iTunes new/Free songs that comes out each Tuesday.  This forces me to listen and collect more current offerings.  Most are worthy saves, some are not, and if they do not fit MY tastes they are not downloaded.

I fine TV shows are upping the ante as far as soundtracks.  And shows like David Letterman [I am a Letterman fan and DO NOT WATCH JAY, ever even when he has a guest that I particularly like.]  So when the mood strikes me, I will note down the music and research the show for what the artist and song might be and see if it is available or if I have it.  I create a play list to emulate this shows offering.  Memphis Beat [now cancelled] is a perfect example.  They actually published their weekly song lists on their web site and I tried to collect them.  I found several offering were specifically created for the show by artist and were not issued on digital or other recorded media for purchase.

I have done this for several years, this listen and learn method of finding new music.  It is how I found Amy Winehouse a few years back.  What a wonderful talent and a sad story with the tragic ending of her life recently.  I heard a voice on Letterman the other night that reminded me of her.  Her name:  Elle King.  She is the daughter of Rob Schneider. a goof ball of an comedic actor in my opinion.  But this woman has a very distinctive voice.  Her appearance on Letterman was stellar [not always the case for many the act.  The nerves seem to catch some folks I suppose.

So my new artist for the week is crowned "ELLE KING!"  I will be following her music, getting some as the time and money allow.  I do tend to cherry pick my songs, rather than buying whole albums.    Unless I find it at the Library, and there it is all free for the taking, in terms of importing music to your personal iTunes library.  Isn't life grande?!