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Trying to eak out a playlist for this year's indian summer, one that calls up long golden afternoons of sweet freedom-because freedom is never sweeter than when you suddenly have to spend the day in school-fields of goldenrod and purple aster to meander through, cool night breezes with a bite to them, the air laced with the scent of woodsmoke and ( Read more... )

There was a moment last night where my wireless mouse crapped out on me for the last time and I shut Klaus down forcibly, because what can you do. It seems that that moment did some very unpleasant things to my iTunes Library, like erasing every single one of my playlists and ignoring about half the music library. Sigh ( Read more... )

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The curious intersection of crunchy, glitchy industrial music and chambre music for string quartet: it's appropriately atmospheric music for the season. The problem is that pieces in this little portion of the musical Venn diagram all have the same underlying structure, and use the same techniques to build tension. It's repetetive dissonance, over ( Read more... )

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Ages and ages ago [?skip=240 and counting, as the livejournal flies], electricwitch tagged me to list my top ten songs beginning with a letter of the alphabet of her choosing. After much hemming and hawing and relying on iTunes to tell me what songs I have that begin with the letter P, I give you my list:

1. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans - Smashing PumpkinsUtterly ( Read more... )