I am currently engaged in a project I perform every few months. Listening to my entire CD collection in alphabetical order. Amazingly, it takes less time than I think it should. Witness: I am already up to D.

Why do I do this? Just because. Because once in a while I need to listen to the CDs I wouldn't otherwise ever get around to listening to because either they don't mesh with anything else to create a harmonious three-CD listening collection, or simply that I never feel like listening to them because I bought them back in the mid-90s sometime and my taste has ricocheted off in different directions since then.

Like Meredith Brooks. Like the Cranberries. Like Roxette too. And it's interesting having the segue from, say, Deadstar to Dope.