Another week. Another grid.
It was yet another week of dark and cold, and trying to get a good night's sleep.
Even though we've yet to reach the end of November, I went and downloaded some MP3s from eMusic, thanks to having purchased a "booster pack" for an extra 50 tracks, which I can download at any time. I've only made use of 7 downloads thus far, having bought some nice calming tunage to play at bedtime:
- Gas - Koenigsforst -- featuring an array of string samples taken from vinyl LPs, backed with a drum machine; this isn't entirely suitable as bedtime music, but it is good for quieter evening listening thank to its droning atmospheric sound
- Kelly Howell - Sound Sleep -- consisting of a single hour-long track titled "Music with Delta Waves", this is meant to be listened to through headphones so that the delta waves can induce your brain into a sleeping state; unfortunately, sleeping with headphones on is not particularly comfortable, but I still found it to be somewhat useful to be played softly through speakers in the background
I also bought a couple songs from iTunes:
- Laika - "Alphabet Soup" -- yet another dirtyradio discovery, this tune is all spacy and electronic, with vocals that remind me of Kate Bush
- Alice Cooper - "Clones (We're All)" -- one does not ordinarily associate Alice Cooper with New Wave, but he did produce some work in the early 80s that fits reasonably well in the genre; "Clones" combines a Gary Numan aesthetic with Brave New World imagery for just under three minutes of enjoyable listening
Other highlights of the week include all-day Friday and Saturday sessions for this taxonomy and metadata course that I'm taking (nothing says "rip-roaring good times" like parking your ass in a classroom on Saturday morning to learn about faceted classfication and controlled vocabularies), and getting my flu shot for this year. Yes, it's sad that those count as "highlights".