Time Managment
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Topic: Time Managment
Posted By: waywardsonsam
Subject: Time Managment
Date Posted: November 07 2009 at 20:09
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Hello....I am a long time prog lover. Just turned 50 so been around awhile. Just been hanging around...not much of a poster..just don't seem to have the time. How do you guys have the time to listen to all this music. Maybe I have too many other reponsibilities and/or interests. How do you take the time to listen to new music all the way through? I would love to figure out how to create that kind of time in my schedule, but with work, family, church, kids and sports, movies, food and sleep, I can't seem to get time to listen to much new stuff. How do you guys do it? Thanks....enjoy just listening to everyone for the most part. Sam |
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: November 07 2009 at 21:14
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Cut the family, church, kids and sports out. And listen when you're at work if you can. :P But yeah, the reason I have the time is because I don't really spend time on a few of those things you mention.
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 07 2009 at 21:26
Listen whenever you are sitting down and it wont be too obtrusive to not hear anyone; meaning sit around with headphones and jump at every chance you get. 
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: November 07 2009 at 21:28
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Well, let's see.... but with work - full time family - yep church - nope kids - i don't think so sports - just the treadmill movies - yep food - I think so sleep - only when necessary. My schedule is lighter than yours.....but I find LOTS of time for music. Of course I can listen at work, maybe you can't. But comparing notes, I think you just need to cut the kids and church....and you should be all set. Seriously, keep trying though.....absence makes the heart grow fonder, so every little window you get will be special.....treat it as sacred time. It is. Every moment that is normal, is special. ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: November 07 2009 at 21:31
I just listen to music while doing everything I am a teenager as well, so I have a lot of free time...
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Posted By: SlickPhreak
Date Posted: November 07 2009 at 21:38
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I would say that about 85 % of my music listening takes place in the kitchen when I am cooking or cleaning for my family. It's frustrating because all I have in the kitchen is a lousy boombox (compared to my stereo setup in my home office). In any case, I have music on all of the time. My daughters love to dance and rock out. Sometimes I listen to what the kids want to hear, but other times it's Genesis or Ligeti.
Also, you didn't mention TV, but if you have one, my suggestion is to unplug it.
------------- And in a dying world, creation is revolution. --Waldo Frank |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: November 07 2009 at 21:43
| Once you get the kids involved in arts and crafts projects, it will free up time for prog listening while making dinner. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: November 07 2009 at 21:44
And turn off cell phones sometimes. Delete your Facebook account. Stop bathing.  ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
SlickPhreak wrote:
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 07 2009 at 21:52
Or install a stereo system in your bathroom, which kinda sounds awesome. Except it getting wet. |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: November 07 2009 at 22:39
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I have music in the background no matter what I do or where I am.The iPod also helps.
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: November 07 2009 at 22:57
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iPod definately helps, especially the iPod Classic where your possibilities seem endless ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: bsms810
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 02:48
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For me it's all about the headphones and mp3 player. I use a tiny little flash drive that i can stick into PC USB port and within seconds change up all its music. It's small and light enough for me to be able to take it on runs, to and from work, in fact to and from everywhere. So its all about fitting it in whilst travelling, cleaning, and any other laborious task that doesn't require you're ears. I now relish long train/car journeys coz it gives me chance to hear some cracking tunes ------------- 'when was the last time you had a girlfriend?' 'I dont look at it as when, I look at it as who...and why' - David Brent |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 03:53
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Yerr, with list as yours it's still perfect, that you have WISH to listen some music. I have enough time for my music (not only prog,for sure, including regular live shows visiting), because:
1. I work from home office
2. No kinds,no sports, no church
3.Family -yes
4. Many car trips with music inside
I am afraid if you want to find more time for your music, you need just to re-check your list of activities.
 By the way, I am 46.
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 05:15
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I think I could listen to all the records I bought since the last summer if: 1) I never watched TV; 2) I took a record player at work (I'm alone in a small office at the 5th level); 3) I lived alone without my brother playing his own records in the next room. |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 05:29
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I have been listening to and collecting Prog and many other kinds of music since i was 13, i would often spend more time browsing in record stores and going to live gigs than actually listening to records - I don't know how a young newcomer to Prog could catch up on 40 years music, but may not want to if into the new stuff.
As i am working shifts i can listen to my music in all its glory within reasonable times of the day without distubing anybody, i don't listen to music in my car as it has an adverse effect on my driving, especially heavy rock
 , I have a collection of over 2000 albums and 600 45's, so i get to play them on a fifteen-year cycle.....must give that first Stones LP another spin....looking forward to my retirement... though i hope i live to 100  -------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 05:31
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Reduce your sleeping time...
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: friso
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 05:38
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I found the perfect way to listen to as many prog or other music as possible.
Rule one in my house: There's vinyl on the turntable. Only when I play guitar there's non, but then I try to play progressive myself. I'm studying for becoming a music therapist, so even during daytime there will be non-stop music in my live. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 05:48
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Semi-retired, so not a huge workload - I work as and when I like, usually 5-6 days a month. Don't have an iPod, but I spend a lot of time working on the computer as I deal in rare stamps and play competition chess on the internet, so I listen to prog (and Planet Rock) then. My TVR has a 6 CD multichanger and cassette player, so I listen a lot whilst I'm driving (that's if the V8 monster under the bonnet lets me!). I don't do twitter, bebo, facebook or any of that crap and I only watch telly a little. But if I want to listen seriously or to older prog, I break out the vinyl in my dedicated music room; 90% of my stuff is on vinyl, archived onto extremely high quality cassette (and recorded and played on my Pioneer CTS 310, it's still better than CD!). But I haven't yet figured how to listen to prog whilst playing cricket; I'm working on it. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 06:00
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Cut out the church. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 06:23
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I am also a long time prog lover, recently turned 50, with work, church and family absorbing the major part of my time. I just try to find some spare moments when I can put some music on and I may be glad if I find two hours in a week for this. Now I want to explore some recent music as well, but I find myself still digesting some 70's stuff that I discovered not so long ago.
So I guess we share the same problem... ------------- 
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Posted By: waywardsonsam
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 06:43
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Glad to know I'm not the only one....my weeks seem so packed, but I am going to make some adjustments. Have found myself watching more TV than I used to...hopefully that frees up a few extra hours in the week. Good luck...God Bless! |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 06:51
Other than that, I've always found time for music - even if only as background. My car stereo is exclusively for my music - the family can listen to whatever they like in the family car, but mine is for me. For serious listening headphones are your friend - I've several pairs for different uses - enclosed, clip-on, sound-cancelling headphones (they do affect the quality of the music but on an aeroplane or in a noisy environment, like in the lab where I work, they are ideal) - I don't like ear-phones and ear-buds, but some people do. Headphones while the family are watching TV sounds antisocial, but at least haven't got up and left the room. I'll even wear headphones while mowing the lawn or washing the car and bought some sport-style ones for that purpose. I can and do play music at work, though usually only when I'm alone in the office, or sat in the lab (to block-out all the other distracting sounds). I've not been a regular church-goer for decades, but hearing Jerusalem (ELP) or Amazing Grace (Groundhogs) played during service always made me smile back in the day ... if only I could have slipped in the In A Gadda Da Vida score into the organists pile of sheet music à la Bart Simpson that would have been great. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 07:23
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These days I think I get most of my listening done off the computer at work, but I listen to CDs while driving to and from work, I have 50 CD jukebox for my living room stereo (currently out of commission due to the bass cube getting flooded), then there's the home computer (currently playing), I have a nice set of portable speakers in the bathroom I can hook up my digital player to, when I was a good boy and going to gym the digital player on headphones, I also have a portable CD player with a nice set of over the ear headphones in the bedroom. Might as well face it, I'm addicted to prog. By the way, unplugging my TV would make it a little hard to watch my prog DVDs  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: toroddfuglesteg
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 08:19
| MP3 player. As simple as that. |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 10:02
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I am lucky because I get to listen to 10+ hours of music a day. I work on the computer, which means that headphones can go in, and iTunes starts playing, whenever I'm at work. I work from the home office, too, so I rarely need to take them off to talk with people. When I cook, clean, etc., I almost always have my iPod on with headphones, unless I'm working with someone else. I have a stereo in my bedroom, which I use to listen to music as I go to sleep, or when I feel like reading in bed. I also have an awesome speaker setup in the basement, which I use to listen to new music for the first time, relax to tunes, or when I work out in the basement. When I take the bus, I always have an iPod and headphones... In general, I am just lucky enough to have a lifestlye where having music playing constantly is not a bad thing. But I don't have kids or go to church, so... Oh yeah, and I don't even have cable. |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 12:08
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Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 14:13
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Just slowly commit to listen to atleast one album a day, then maybe two.. It'll be a start.. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 14:19
Waste of time. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: SlickPhreak
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 15:35
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If you stop bathing, people will start avoiding you, which will really free up your schedule. In all seriousness, I think serious, close music listening is an avocation akin to building model trains or hiking. There's no shame in devoting a weekend to it. ------------- And in a dying world, creation is revolution. --Waldo Frank |
Posted By: Epyros
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 17:58
i sometimes take the speakers of my PC to the bathroom, but only when i can spend the time an album lasts in there.
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 20:27
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Do what I do:
1) Have family -- be far away from them
2) Have friends -- hang out with them
3) Have your computer stop working
4) Have your car CD player stop working
5) Listen to music only on your record player and Xbox 360
6) Work, go to school
7) End up listening to less music and focus your energy on something creative (like I pretend to do).
If only I could give up Buffy, then I might actually get doo at guitar without all the damn distractions. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: November 08 2009 at 22:02
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I'm a thirty eight year old Dad and budding author. Basically, I listen to music eight hours a day at work, two hours on the commute and then I usually get about an hour or two once everyone else has gone to bed and I'm trying to write. On weekends, I'll keep my hour or two at night and also listen if I'm working around the house or driving somewhere. The trick is my iPod. I've pretty configured my world to accept the iPod. I have a stereo in the kitchen and the garage that will accept an input from the pod, my stereo also accepts the pod and finally, I listen to my music at work directly from the pod as well. My iPod is one of my two favorite material objects (my car being the other). Just enjoy when you do listen rather than worry about how often you listen. I have huge numbers on my play count signature, but more than half of the time it's background noise rather than a quality 'sit down and listen to something without distractions' listen. The great thing about all of the new music that you're hearing about, it will still be there when you have the time. Everyone makes their own priorities and if you really want to listen to more music, rank it higher on your priority list. For me, music comes before sports and movies (unless it's a date with my wife which would be a subheading under the family category). Wow, that was a lot of words. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: November 09 2009 at 12:47
Hi sam. I am 40 and family man with 2 kids. I undrestand you. I live in iran and have many troubles for listen to music. you live in a free country. in iran western music is illegal and you may arrest for music. BUT i formed my life with music ( prog rock) in last 24 years. If i cant be with music i die. My family and friends undrestand me. I am engineer and work hard. I spend my time with my kids and .... but music is a personal and holy thing for me. I PRAY WITH MUSIC. good luck and try to adjust your time.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 09 2009 at 12:57
| Sometimes you just can't find the time - it's been happening to me lately. |
Posted By: mohaveman
Date Posted: November 09 2009 at 13:04
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Mostly listen in my Jeep, or when working around the
house.
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 09 2009 at 13:28
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Pick the correct numbers for the lottery buy an Island and helicopter. Hire a nanny for the kids. Build your own movie theatre and listening studio, attend virtual church, buy every prog album that ever existed and go nuts. I`m sure it`s just a matter of time before they come out with that second to last one last one. Seriously, I play music when I`m working on the car, eating breakfast or supper and working ( I work for myself ). One thing I don`t own is an ipod. Those headphones will wreck your ears besides I don`t like blocking out the sounds of nature when I`m walking down the street. In fact right now I`m listening to Eloy`s The Power and the Passion. ------------- |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 09 2009 at 13:44
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I don't have a lot of time either, so I understand the problem. I don't see it too much as a problem, it's in this fase of life that I'm in. I listened to a lot of prog from when I was between 20 and 40 years. Hopefully someday I'll find some more time someday. |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: November 09 2009 at 14:31
That's kind of a misconception, there are a multitude of items out there with a quarter inch jack to hook to an iPod. I listen to my pod for a good ten hours a day without ever putting a head phone on or ear bud in. The pod for me is just a very convenient place to store what ever I may feel like listening to at that moment. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 10 2009 at 10:36
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I like watching the turntable go around.
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Posted By: Luke. J
Date Posted: November 10 2009 at 11:22
| Commute is the word.. although I still go to school, I have made it to about 2 or 3 albums a day - just in commute time. Seriously, listening to music is the only thing train lateness is good for.. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 10 2009 at 11:38
Yes, weird but true, the more TV you watch the more free time you will have. |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: November 10 2009 at 12:12
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I have work, famliy, church, rock band -well, that counts either-, girlfriend, reading and writing and always have time for new music.. my advise, quit TV, don't use messenger of Facebook -those elements of evil- and give it special space to music... like, in the night dedicate 1 hour to hear a new band... maybe a couple days a week and you'll get it... ------------- |
Posted By: Epyros
Date Posted: November 10 2009 at 12:15
| just listen to music in church, god will understand... if it's prog =P |
Posted By: waywardsonsam
Date Posted: November 10 2009 at 12:24
My complete thought did not make it all the way to the keyboard, apparently.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 10 2009 at 12:52
I kind of figured that but you have to admit it was funny as it came out. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: waywardsonsam
Date Posted: November 10 2009 at 13:21
Definitely! |