Every once in awhile, I like to take all of my MP3s out of iTunes and slowly place them back in, album by album, deleting the music I no longer listen to and making a better effort of organizing the stuff I do enjoy. It's probably a colossal waste of time, but for some reason it's entertaining to me, and also gives me a chance to sit back and relax with some songs I haven't heard in awhile. iTunes 7, unsurprisingly, tends to take even longer to load up than its predecessors on my trusty PC, and is chock-full of extra features that I never intend on using. How about an iTunes Lite, Apple? Pretty-please?
Anyway, in addition to this cleaning, I've been looking for some new stuff to listen to lately. If anybody has anything that they think I'd enjoy, send some recommendations my way. I'll be sure to check them out.
I found a website with basically every album of Final Fantasy music that's ever been released in Japan on it. It's intensely awesome to me, the king of all Final Fantasy dorks. I now have everything from symphonic suites to officially sanctioned Japanese-hair-metal covers of battle themes to an entire CD of Celtic Final Fantasy IV music. Yeah. Celtic. Final Fantasy IV. Music. Only about three or four people that I know will understand the joy I receive from such things as these. The rest of you will wonder why I don't do anything useful with my time.
I've been reading a lot more lately now that there's been a lull in my schoolwork. I tore through rereading The Problem of Pain and The Four Loves last week, and now I'm absorbing a Walker Percy book that Mike loaned me called Lost in the Cosmos. It's a mock self-help book that manages to be simultaneously entertaining and thought-provoking. It also includes a forty-page crash course on semiotics. Can't get much better than that.
Well, back to frittering away my time.
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I recommend Denison Witmer's "Are You A Dreamer?"
I put it on all the time because it's so peaceful and subtly moving (but definitely not in a "I'm out to get you" way). It's music perfect to do just about anything to (like, I clean my room with it and I put together my desk to it), but yet is worth paying attention to as well.
I can give it to you or you can be a non-thief and buy it.
OMG it's WALKER not WALTER!!!!!!!!
There's nothing worse than misconstrued typos. Like, if I had wrote "WalQer Percy" you probably would have realized it was a typo. But with a typo like "Walter Percy," it just makes me look like an idiot.
I have managed to spell Denison's last name "Whitmer" over and over, despite knowing better.
My recommendation is Tobias Fröberg, a really Paul Simon-esque fellow who makes charming, lovely melodies and writes songs about not wanting to hear songs about sorrow, because it's boring and nobody wants to hear them. He also manages to make me go to sleep a lot. I like that. If you want another recommendation, I'll also throw Film School in on top of that. A thick, Manchester-heartache sound that goes down like rich pudding is sustained by vocals that emote... but don't relegate the music to weepie Boy Division shoegazer crap. They both have free songs for download from their sites... just google 'em.
I love that Percy book... it's so sharp and ridiculous at the same time. I had to take a break and return it to Mike when I hit the semiotics portion, though.
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