If I open my personal journal to see what I’ve been scribbling about most over the last couple of years, it is my apparent inability to Achieve Anything. I internalized a lot of “no you can’t do that” when I was growing up, and now I seem to think I can’t do anything, and you know what they say: your focus determines your reality. I have psyched ( Read more... )

NPR recently posted a question asking people what music they find scary. Clearly, this is a subjective question, because a lot of people picked music that wasn't scary at all, at least in my view. So since it is That Time of Year, I thought I'd post some songs I think are frightening enough to play for trick or treaters if you're going for that ( Read more... )

I don't usually enjoy rappers from the past two decades, but I adore Harmaa Getto right now. This outfit has three very big things going for them.

1) They rap in Finnish, which I don't understand. This is an advantage because I don't need to quibble about whether I like the lyrics or not, since I have little idea how offensive they are! I only know ( Read more... )

A song that reminds me of Pandora Hearts.
If I was ever going to make an AMV or MMV that captured the grand drama that is Pandora Hearts, I would choose "Von" by Sigur Rós to be the soundtrack (specifically the non-acoustic version from Hvarf). The way the song slowly builds, and somehow manages to be both joyous and heartbreaking...it just works.

A song that reminds you of one of the Characters or Pairings.

"Animals" by CocoRosie reminds me of Alice, at least the first few minutes does. It's partly the voice, partly the lyrics.

This is easy. Without a doubt, my favorite anime opening theme song is "Duvet" by Boa, from Serial Experiments Lain. Here you can watch the band performing the song or watch the anime opening (which has an abbreviated version of the song). If you aren't hooked within the first 30 seconds...good grief...I am speechless.