The headline is not meant to represent that childhood saying –Examine Your Zipper — we directed at someone with their fly open. Nor, is it meant to revisit the strange post I had here on my blog about the Rolling Stones and their zipper cover album.
This XYZ means alphabetically we are getting down to the end of my quest to count down and explore the 678 albums I have collected since childhood. XYZ means we are hitting artists whose names start with X, followed by Y, then Z. I have 35 slots to fill until that magical 678 number.
Now before we get too excited here, I have no grandiose plans, at least not yet, to somehow celebrate this accomplishment. I am going to keep my website up and, yes, I am most likely going to keep writing music reviews beyond the ‘official’ 678. I will also continue to write about Lewy body dementia and my living with it. I will likely continue to write my observations on other topics as well.
And there are some stragglers to deal with, records that were lost in my increasingly unorganized collection. I may, for example write a ‘soundtracks’ post or a ‘compilation’ piece.
So hang on, the big challenge — that I would finish the 678 before I die of this brain disease — appears very much in reach.
If nothing else it will be interesting to see which recordsing artists have names that start with X or Y or Z.