Stowing Away the Time

Maybe it's the fatigue but I've been extra responsive to music tonight. Physically responsive. Goosebumps, hairs on end, shivers, eyelids drooping.

Listening to Supertramp's Breakfast in America, followed by Steely Dan's Can't Buy a Thrill. I got both albums back in February and they have yet to wear out their welcome, in fact they seem to get better every time I listen to them. While I'm not the type of person who likes to hear things over and over within a short period of time, I find that if I give an album about three good listens and then put it a way for a while, when I come back to it the music is much better. Maybe my brain is just set to receive it. I need time to grow the appropriate neuron receptors.

I've been feeling very creative too. I think the stronger my ADD symptoms the more I'm able to find the muse, and lately I've been a scatter-brained mess so the creative juices are certainly flowing. I've been writing lyrics, something I've not felt like doing in over a year. I've dabbled with songs all my life but never felt like I could find my lyrical voice. I think maybe I need to determine what kind of music I'm keyed to writing for. I may have been trying to hard to write for hard rock, when I should have cultivated a move progressive, even pop mindset. Another possibility is that I just haven't worked hard enough at it.

You know, let me better express how awesome Breakfast in America is. I'm giving it an early nomination for my favorite of 2010. It really is an amazing album.

Borderlands

I had two days off this week. In those two days I logged about 16 hours on Borderlands. Christ that game just sucks time like a black hole. I feel like I should pack an over-night and feed the cats before I start playing. Hella good fun though. Will and JT accompanied me for a good part of it. I havn't touched the DLC yet. I can't wait to play it more. I got the shakes baby, daddy's got the shakes baaad!

Planning a ho-down for some time this weekend. If I can get enough people I want to have one last Modern Warfare 2 party before the world forgets about it and gets involved with whatever the holiday lineup has to offer. If I can't get enough people then maybe we can get a fourth for Borderlands. If nobody wants to play with me at all then I'll sulk and read a book or something. Who I am kidding, I've got way to much single player crap to finish up to waste time on books! Silly books. And their pages. Silly.

Compulsion

I bought Blacklight again goddammit.

They got my money. They got my money twice. Curse this affliction of a hobby!



I also bought Preemptive Strike by DJ Shadow. I got it for the song Organ Donor which had been teasing my brain cells since I first heard it on Pandora. I can't stress enough how utterly fucking mind-blowing this song is. It's why we have techno. It's what Willis was talking about. You're listening to it and right away you think, "this is a cool song" and then it stops fucking around and throws 26 layers of incredible on your eardrums and you think... nothing because the part of you that listens to things is busy visiting the holy land.

Reasonably I thought that the rest of the album would be just as stellar. I had heard of DJ Shadow but hadn't really heard him before this song. If that was the kind of quality song I could expect I would gladly pay $9.99 for an album. I'm not going to say the album is bad, or even disappointing, it's just not what I expected. It's sort of a chillout album, very low-key and loungy. Organ Donor is the black sheep here. I imagine if you had not heard it and listened to the album all the way through, that when you got to Organ Donor (the last song) it would have an even greater impact. A sonic-ninja-skullfuck kind of impact. The rest of the album lulls you into a false sense of security before the kung-fu-grip-happy-ending you didn't know the Chinese lady already charged you for.