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Just a bit of fluff inspired by insomnia and net surfing. These are a few songs that I just love, and no matter how many times I have heard them I want to stop and listen. Not in any particular order:

Exhausted by Foo Fighters
Sour Times by Portishead*
Strangers by Portishead*
Biscuit by Portishead*
Electioneering by Radio Head
Midnight In A Perfect World by DJ Shadow
Vital Signs by Rush
Instant Karma by John Lennon
Eleanor Rigby the Beatles
Cantara by Dead Can Dance (actually, pretty much the whole of Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun)
The Host of the Seraphim by Dead Can Dance
Truth Hits Everybody by the Police
When The Levee Breaks by Led Zeppelin
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You by Led Zeppelin
That's Entertainment by the Jam
New Amsterdam by Elvis Costello
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division
Let's Go (Nothing For Me) by New Order
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

I can't name anything by REM, but I'm sure there's at least one.

*=I prefer the live version, but both are good.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: home
Current Music: If you have to ask, you didn't read this post

Today,

fuschia came over and showed M and I the first half dozen episodes of Veronica Mars. I am completely hooked. This yet another excellent show that I didn't see until years after it was canceled. Alas. The writing is witty, yet doesn't feel completely stylized, and Veronica makes mistakes and thus escapes the Mary Sue trap, and even the assholes have motives and inner lives. My current theory about the big mystery (who killed Veronica's best friend) is that the mother did it. I may even be right.

The theme song has wormed into my brain, and (something new for me) I want the soundtrack. (Also, I am now in lust with Amanda Seyfried, though apparently I come late to the party.)

Anyway, it took an effort of will to stop watching, make some supper, and pick up a friend at the train station. (At least it wasn't the airport.) M and I made plans to socialize tomorrow, and tomorrow should be lovely, but I'm tempted to blow everything off and watch the remaining 16 hours all at once.

Oh, new crack, how I love thee.

Current Music: We Used To Be Friends by the Dandy Warhols

So, I have been a bit mopy over the past few days, because of wrestling with accepting myself as I am, and not as idealized, good-bits only version of myself. A high point the other day, though, was seeing Miyazaki Hayao's film Spirited Away. It's simply amazingly good. Richly imagined, beautifully made, thoughtful, touching, loving, clear, detailed...beautiful. More than anything else that is staying with me about this movie, it is absolutely beautiful. The sights and sounds were absolutely ravishing. I want to see it again. I want to own this movie. And, I want to see more of Miyazaki's films. (I have seen Mononoke both in subtitled Japanese, and in the English language with script by Neil Gaiman.)

If I could create moments of such transcendant beauty, in any format (even gaming), and I were to then die, I would feel that my life had not been wholly in vain.

Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: still Crystal Method exhorting me to keep hope alive.

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