With my car's CD player working again, I'm revisiting a lot of albums I haven't listened in full, in one sitting, to in a while, spending most of my time previously using my phone's MP3 Shuffle function instead. I forgot what a joy Days of the New's green album (sometimes called Days of the New 2) is. Hard to believe it's about 25 years old now. I ( Read more... )

Yesterday Version 2.0 by Garbage gave me an inspiration for an X-Files story that I polished off my typing for in two hours. It made me think of other albums that I associate with fic-writing time periods, pairings, or certain stories.

My earliest X-Files stories were written in my brother's apartment on his computer, so they're all informed by ( Read more... )