The Empty Soda Can

Paula Abdul • Coldhearted (Quivering 12″) (✭✭✭½) Love Derwinger and Roland Pöntinen • Concerto in A♭ Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra: III. Allegro vivace Lenny Kravitz • My Love (✭✭✭½) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • The Tenth Article of Faith Pepe Ahlqvist & The Rolling Tumbleweed • Big Pig Beta (✭✭✭✭) Narvalo • Aven Aven (✭✭✭✭) Blind Pilot • Go On, Say It (✭✭✭½) Blind Pilot • Go On, Say It (✭✭✭½) Blink 182 • All the Small Things (✭✭✭✭) Cathy Dennis • Falling Aretha Franklin • Angels We Have Heard on High (✭✭✭✭) Fresh Body Shop • Can't Get Enough (✭✭✭✭) Bryan Adams • Cuts Like a Knife Mainz Chamber Orchestra • Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201: II. Andante Boom Crash Opera • Forever Ron Davis Trio • Popeye (✭✭✭✭✭) The B-52’s • Roam (Extended Remix) (✭✭✭✭) Winger • Baptized by Fire (✭✭✭) Frida Hyvonen • Enemy Within (✭✭✭✭✭) Throw Me the Statue • Lolita (✭✭✭½) The War on Drugs • Taking the Farm (✭✭✭) Sen Dog • Fumble (✭✭) Near the Parenthesis • Not Here, No...

It’s been noted by many authors that a surprising number of Latter-day Saints don’t usually make New Year’s resolutions. It’s not that we think ourselves above improvement; in fact, quite the opposite: we’re so constantly trying to improve ourselves, attempting to become more like our Savior, that making a New Year’s resolution is actually kind of redundant. So with that in mind, yesterday I came up with a New Year’s resolution that is completely unrelated to bettering myself per se , yet something that I can actually work towards with some semblance of completion. So, on to the task: in my iTunes library, I have a smart playlist with every track that iTunes has no record of me listening to. Obviously, I’ve actually listened to a lot of them: many are ripped from CDs that had been played at least once, often more than once, before I added them to iTunes. However, having never listened to them in iTunes, they have no play count, no volume adjustment, no equalizer preset, no ✭ rating, ...