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Hump Day Poll: Hobbies

My mom had a ton of hobbies.  She was a scrapbooker , cardmarker, diamond art  maker, slot machine jockey, bingo player, cross stitcher , occasional sewing thrown in when I was a kid to save money.  She loved being creative.  I also love being creative but haven't done much on that front.  I suppose you could say my Etsy shop is about as creative as I've gotten lately but hobbies that become something you depend on money for, it becomes less fun and more job.  (Not that that's producing anything right now anyway since I've not done a single thing with it yet this year because of the house chaos but I digress.)  I have this bad habit of going full force into ideas and pooping out on them.  I still have a bin full of stuff to make risers for stuff like soap, tea kettles , etc waiting for me to do something with them.  I have drawers full of stuff for craft projects that rarely get touched and then inherited a bunch of Mom's stamps and card m...
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Hump Day Poll: Where Do You Find It?



As we go through negotiations with modern day Satan, aka our cable company, it got me thinking about what I never thought I'd consider "the good ol days."  One of the only things keeping us with this douchebag company is they have Music Choice.  It's a bunch of different music channels in the middle of the guide, post sports channels, pre-adult movies.  That is basically the only live TV I "watch."  I get too distracted with regular channels on, and it allows me to hear songs I wouldn't usually hear so we can get new music.

I thought about the early 2000s and how we used to get new music then...commercials.  Usually Apple iPod commercials.  (It should not surprise you this is still how we listen to music, we have three of them including the classic original.  My phone couldn't handle the amount of music I need at my fingertips and still function.)  It was how I discovered cool songs like Horndog by Overseer, Shut Up and Let Me Go by the Ting Tings and Start the Commotion by The Wiseguys.  Whoever was working for them then had awesome taste in music because the second we'd see a commercial, we always had to download it.  Then they went another direction, and our source for music dried up because the radio was of zero help...until Music Choice.  Problem is, no other cable company carries it, and it's on 70% of the time in our home.

So I'm curious...how do you find new music?

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  1. The Mr.February 20, 2019 at 7:16 AM

    I can't really answer this myself since I'm in the same boat as you but I am sure looking forward to seeing everybody else's answers here.

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  2. dalbador1February 20, 2019 at 9:52 AM

    I, too, have found sounds through commercials, two of my favorites being Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Anderson East's version of Forever Young (amazing). We have Dish Satellite and have the music channels as well for virtually every language, genre, and era, which is a lot of fun to listen to. Years ago, just for kicks, we'd turn on Irish music and the Cartoon Network on mute and it would look like the cartoon characters were signing Irish diddies! ROFL

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  3. BrowrenFebruary 20, 2019 at 11:13 AM

    I have a free Spotify account on my phone, so I stream a lot of music from my phone through a Bluetooth speaker. They create new playlists for me weekly based on what I have selected to listen to.

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  4. another layerFebruary 21, 2019 at 8:40 AM

    I'm pretty well stuck in the 80s. I'd like to find new music, but I'm stuck like you are. I have found some new bands I really like by accident but mostly I just listen to the same old stuff.

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