{"id":20200,"date":"2018-04-21T14:23:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T18:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=20200"},"modified":"2018-04-21T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T18:23:22","slug":"ramh10-still-hangin-on-and-a-master-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/ramh10-still-hangin-on-and-a-master-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"RAMH@10: Still Hangin’ On (and a “Master Mix”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Image: “Wherever I Lay My Hat,” by an unknown user on Flickr. I thought the title especially suitable to my thinking about <\/a><\/em>RAMH these days. (Aside to whoever took this photo — it’s been years since I snagged a copy: thank you very much… and do let me know if you object to my using it finally here!)]<\/em><\/p>\nA<\/span>nother year gone by; even less music… at last count, only seven posts assigned to the Music<\/em> category since last April… How the heck am I going to build an anniversary playlist?<\/p>\n

Wait<\/em> — I know: I can combine all previous years’ mixes into one gonzo list!<\/em><\/p>\n

Herewith, then, the “Master Mix” (to the extent that there is one). Below the little audio-player thingumabob I’ll mention some details about the mix and how to use it, and then move on to my usual April-style woolgathering. (I haven’t totaled up the length of the whole thing, but there are six earlier lists; each is about one CD’s worth of music, or about 70-75 minutes apiece… which comes to… um… seven hours of music?!?<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Note that this master mix is automatically shuffled; every time you load the page, you’ll get a new mix. (If you want to listen to the songs in the order they were originally played in, I’ve included — in a table below the audio player itself — links to the individual anniversary posts.) You can if you want pop out the playlist into its own browser window — see the “Popout” link at the top left of the player? The popout will be shuffled in the same order as the list shown; it will enable you to close <\/em>this window, and to go on to something else. Dusting, maybe. Or Facebook (haha).<\/em><\/p>\n

RAMH@10: The Master Mix<\/h4>\n\n

About this year’s mix:<\/p>\n

I’ve been meaning to go back for some time and clean up a few of the earlier April posts, which were (to skip over the details) still clinging to old and no longer functional technologies. They’re all up to date now; you can see each of them by following the corresponding links here — each anniversary post includes links to the blog posts featuring that list’s songs:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/strong><\/th>\nPost Title<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/strong><\/td>\nRAMH@9: The Music Break Mix<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/strong><\/td>\nRAMH@8: To One Thing Constant Never… and a Playlist<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/strong><\/td>\nRAMH@7: Old Friends (A Playlist, and a Rumination or Two)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/strong><\/td>\nRAMH@6: Discoveries (A Playlist, and a Rumination)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/strong><\/td>\nRAMH@5: Cherchez les Femmes (A Playlist)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/strong><\/td>\n(no anniversary playlist this year)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/strong><\/td>\nRAMH@3: The Mix<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008-10<\/strong><\/td>\n(none: sorry, took me a while to realize I could do this!)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

(Note too that this master playlist allows you to download the song currently playing — that’s the purpose of the Download link to the right of the Popout button. The individual anniversary mixes do not<\/em> allow downloads.)<\/p>\n

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<\/a>B<\/span>ack in the 2014 anniversary post, I dwelt at length on the question of why bother blogging anymore, in the face of the social-media craze — particularly Facebook. I’d come to a realization about Facebook, I said, a realization about why I’d started blogging in the first place:<\/p>\n

The reason I blogged, the thing\u00a0I\u00a0didn\u2019t realize about myself until the world moved on from blogging to all those shallow, trivial, quick-and-dirty online venues of little to no \u201cconsequence,\u201d was simply this: I needed people; I was <\/em>lonely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What didn’t occur to me then was the other side of the coin: so if Facebook (et al.) serve the needing-people need which originally drew me to blogging, why do I still blog at all? Especially to the limited extent I’ve come to in the last year?<\/p>\n

There’s really only one reason I can see for my continue blogging now, even in the ultra-limited way I’ve been doing for over a year now: it scratches an itch not available elsewhere. For lack of a better term, let’s call it “self-expression,” particularly a form of self-expression uniquely my own: this site has my personal stamp on it in a way that my Facebook timeline<\/a> doesn’t, in a way that my (newly awakened) Tumblr feed<\/a> doesn’t, in a way that my Instagram account<\/a> sure as hell doesn’t even remotely touch. Yes, all those other specific locales let me “express myself” in one way or another… but only<\/em> in someone else’s contexts<\/em>. They all present limitations which blogging — particularly WordPress blogging — do not, and none of them is, well, mine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So I’ll continue with the whiskey river Fridays<\/em><\/a> weekly series inspired by that anonymous blog (at least until whiskey river<\/em><\/a> itself keels over, if it does). I’ll continue posting occasional — however rare — midweek and weekend “music break”<\/a> entries. (Not sure yet about the Quirky<\/del> Eclectic Christmas Mixes<\/a>, though; they’re an awful lot of work for mere “self-expression,” and, well, having done a symbolic ten of them — maybe that’s enough even for me!) Yeah, I figure I’ll be here on or about next April 20th, too.<\/p>\n

Until then, whoever you are who might be seeing this: thank you very much for visiting Running After My Hat<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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