Today has been brought to you by the music of:
The Golden Palominos - “Pure”
Sarah McLachLan - “Rarities, B-Sides & Other Stuff”
Skold - “Skold”
KMFDM - “Angst”
U2 - “The Joshua Tree”
Depech Mode - “Violator”
Rush - “Roll the Bones”
(If we are defined by the music we listen to then I am soo schizophrenic…)
(Originally posted at A Home Away from Hythia)
Listening to Bare Naked Ladies, “Live in Red Rock”. Hadn’t ever really listened to them before. Just heard a song or two of theirs on the radio and it never really clicked as to who they were or what songs were theirs. I really suck at remembering band or album or song names.
Anyways, fun to listen to new music around the house. Been so long since I really got new music that the only really new music I ever heard was occasionally MP3s snagged from friends or VH1 on those days I am up early enough they are playing music or listening lately to the Cape Radio.
Find music tends to organize my thoughts while listening to it. I know from past projects that it tends to affect my coding and writing style. Both in tempo and I suppose in the pacing or arrangement of whatever the ’stuff’ I am working on is.
Not as much the idea of some music being more appropriate for the ‘mood’ of what I am working on, but more of how I’ll write code differently while listening to Wagner then I would whlie listening to Razed in Black’s re-mix album that was done at a freakishly high BPM for what was essentially a very dark / gothic album.
Okay, a little sleepy so that came out weirdly but I think the point got across.
Still unpacking my music collection. Lived here for, uh, three years now and not unpacked yet. Will need to repack soon since my landlord is making sounds about selling the place.
My music collection reminds me of ‘High Fidelity’. I can very much track my music collection by date or who I was in a relationship with.
The last couple years I haven’t gotten any new music, or been dating.
My stuff from my time in hell, er NC, was really random and was me trying to fit in and listen to music people I hung out with had. It is stuff like AddNtoX.
Before that was a very eclectic period with Loreena McKennit alongside strange bands like Snog, the one from the teacher I dated one summer she was in town on a seminar. and the others from strange friends I had who went out of the way to find weird stuff.
I have a couple pop cds like Bush, Eve 6 and Stabbing Westword from when I dated a girl who was doing research on cultural movements at the time.
Lots of instrumental and orchestral from when I dated a cellist.
NIN and KMFDM from a girl who pretty thoroughly shattered my heart, but who I went to a lot of very noisy very dark concerts with while dating.
Don’t really own any music from before that, if I did it would be on cassette tape and I think all of those got used for weird 3d art projects ages ago.
I need to catalog all my cds again. I have everything from before I moved to NC as MP3s so I can at least find out how many cds the ex-gf nicked from me that I owned before that.
(Originally posted at A Home Away from Hythia)
This weekend was lived to the musical score of:
Depeche Mode - Violater
God Lives Underwater - Empty
Gravity Kills - Gravity Kills
Information Society - Information Society
Information Society - Peace And Love, Inc.
KMFDM - Angst
KMFDM - Light
NIN - Further Down the Spiral
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
Stan Getz - The Bossa Nova Years
(Originally posted at A Home Away from Hythia)