i got a super shipment of music today from mr fedex. partly xmas gifts but mostly music for me. i hadn’t spurge on music in a long time but what the hell, music is one of the few things i enjoy spending money on. what did i get? i got a collaboration between sigur ros and hilmar hilmarsson, mogwai’s rock on, gram parsons anthology (it’s a gift but he sounds interesting), coldplay and waking life soundtrack. mogwai and sigur ros collabaration cd is obvious winners within first listen but the others shall need some growth. coldplay definitely has their radioheahish appeal and although i like them, they do sound a little too produced for me.
i am sorta glad that my musical taste is pretty diverse, otherwise i would be pretty bored within one genre pretty fast. it’s difficult to say if that has been some sort of progression in taste but undoubtedly one’s outlook greatly influences musical taste. gone all the days of NIN and ministry and trance, as classical amibent spacey jazzy downtemp beats tend to rule the charts these days. actually, i think the days of NIN and those likes where more during a rebelious time in my life and although i still appreciate their music/message, i can’t enjoy it as much anymore. for the past 10 years music had been a large part of my life and interests but now, it only supplements part of my explorations into the art of living. i don’t know what the point of all this rambling except that i still love music as much as before.