Better late than never, here is the mood board for last week...
The week brought the start of a new job, a new month, and a new raft of downloads from eMusic. For my forty-track allotment this month, I decided to forgo getting full albums, and instead cherry-picked a bunch of tunes from different sources.
- Picks number 1 through 27 were a selection of mid-80s goth and industrial tracks from Bauhaus, Gene Loves Jezebel, Love and Rockets, Ministry, Peter Murphy, The Revolting Cocks, Skinny Puppy, The Bolshoi, The Cult, and Tones on Tail.
- Keeping with the retro theme on picks 28 through 39 was an assortment of miscellaneous 80s tracks from Camper Van Beethoven, Eddy Grant, The Dead Milkmen, Scandal and Patty Smyth, Berlin, Toni Basil, Expose, The Go-Go's, Bananarama, and The Alarm.
- And, for my last track for the month, I picked "Raag Shree" performed by Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar; dubbed by the eMusic pundits as "one of the oldest, most difficult, and most exciting of all the ragas", it makes for a decent (I would beg to differ with the "exciting" label) twenty minutes and forty-one seconds (or so) of quieter listening.
Not shown on the board is another bit of media consumption from the week, namely the movie Pollock (IMDB info), which I saw on DVD. I found it to be an enjoyable overview of the life of Jackson Pollock; obviously, they can't cover everything in a movie, but this was good to whet the appetite for more information about his art, and other things.