Things, Various
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sinanjuI own more books than I have shelves to put them on. I have all my bookshelves double stacked and still have stacks of books on the floor and books in boxes in the basement. My music collection, on the other hand, can be comfortably carried in a single box--even if you include the LPs I've owned for many, many years but haven't had a record player to play them on for much of that time. I'm simply far more willing to give an unknown novelist a try than an unknown musician. When it comes to buying music, I am extremely reluctant to buy anything but the tried and true--by which I mean, an album that contains a bunch of songs I already know I like.
Which is why a big chunk of my music library is movie soundtrack albums. Most of the rest are records that came out long ago, from bands that often don't exist anymore (Oingo Boingo, for instance). I'm completely out of touch with popular music culture. On the other hand, I'm rather a connoisseur of movie sound track artists. I often recognize a soundtrack author almost immediately--and I frequently catch them reusing soundtracks from past films in movie ads (presumably because the original score isn't done yet). The menacing action score from Aliens, for instance, turns up a lot in action movie trailers/commercials.
Most of the music I listen to these days is a handful of albums I own on CD or have downloaded from Amazon. Or songs I've saved in my playlists on Imeem.com. The Imeem playlist is composed--again--mostly of songs from the last 30 years that I hadn't heard for a long, long time when I searched for and saved them. I tend to be faddish about songs that grab my interest. I'll play them over and over and over and over again. (I listen via headphones both at work and at home so at least I don't inflict them on other people.)
My current fad favorite is Bad Things by Jace Everett. I first heard it as the theme song for True Blood on HBO, the new series based on Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse novels. As soon as I identified it, I found it on Imeem and I've been playing the full length version over and over and over for days now.
In other news...
I'm watching the new season of Heroes. It's descended into Mystery Science Theatre 3000 territory, alas. I am watching it now solely to observe just how awful the writing is--to point, and laugh, and mock. Idiot plots at every turn, cardboard characters whose motivations change from one scene to the next, moronic decision making, failures to ever ask the next logical question (or, having actually asked it, accepting the non-answer or brush off that invariably follows) or to act with the common sense God gave an animal cracker. The heroes are abysmally, arrogantly, aggressively stupid. The only reason the bad guys don't run roughshod over them is that they're just as dumb. Thus the relative stalemate that has endured for two (and the beginning of three) seasons. Mutual Assured Stupidity.
Still, it's great fodder for discussion on Television Without Pity.
Which is why a big chunk of my music library is movie soundtrack albums. Most of the rest are records that came out long ago, from bands that often don't exist anymore (Oingo Boingo, for instance). I'm completely out of touch with popular music culture. On the other hand, I'm rather a connoisseur of movie sound track artists. I often recognize a soundtrack author almost immediately--and I frequently catch them reusing soundtracks from past films in movie ads (presumably because the original score isn't done yet). The menacing action score from Aliens, for instance, turns up a lot in action movie trailers/commercials.
Most of the music I listen to these days is a handful of albums I own on CD or have downloaded from Amazon. Or songs I've saved in my playlists on Imeem.com. The Imeem playlist is composed--again--mostly of songs from the last 30 years that I hadn't heard for a long, long time when I searched for and saved them. I tend to be faddish about songs that grab my interest. I'll play them over and over and over and over again. (I listen via headphones both at work and at home so at least I don't inflict them on other people.)
My current fad favorite is Bad Things by Jace Everett. I first heard it as the theme song for True Blood on HBO, the new series based on Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse novels. As soon as I identified it, I found it on Imeem and I've been playing the full length version over and over and over for days now.
In other news...
I'm watching the new season of Heroes. It's descended into Mystery Science Theatre 3000 territory, alas. I am watching it now solely to observe just how awful the writing is--to point, and laugh, and mock. Idiot plots at every turn, cardboard characters whose motivations change from one scene to the next, moronic decision making, failures to ever ask the next logical question (or, having actually asked it, accepting the non-answer or brush off that invariably follows) or to act with the common sense God gave an animal cracker. The heroes are abysmally, arrogantly, aggressively stupid. The only reason the bad guys don't run roughshod over them is that they're just as dumb. Thus the relative stalemate that has endured for two (and the beginning of three) seasons. Mutual Assured Stupidity.
Still, it's great fodder for discussion on Television Without Pity.
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Date: 2008-10-01 01:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-01 04:01 pm (UTC)1. I am also slightly obsessed with Bad Things.
2. I have used ereader to sail through all 8 Sookie books this week. As I type I have two more chapters to go in the last one. Thank you for the recommendation. I probably wouldn't have bothered otherwise.
Honestly, the first two books were stylistically awkward, but by the last three, I think Charlaine Harris is actually...witty. Some of her descriptions for things and sensations are priceless. Good for her.
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Date: 2008-10-01 06:41 pm (UTC)