Well here I go, trying to write something and something interesting at that.  I watched some of the Radiohead music video contest winners and despite the videos being amazing, I am still unable to get into Radiohead.  I may be the only person on the face of the earth that is in such a situation.

The NIN Hotline had a post about this band Belong with a free download of some work.  It’s a single 14-minute track.  I’m guessing that listening to it on my laptop may have been a bad choice since I wasn’t really impressed.  Good atmospheric stuff but a lot more texture than actual music, in my opinion.  There’s a place and a fanbase for that, so it’s not that the work is worthless; I’m just saying at first glance, it didn’t do much for me.

Latest and greatest: Fear Factory.  There is nothing like tuning out the drone of your workplace with some screaming, growling, double-bass action.  I find I’ve moved to the Hard Rock/Heavy Metal swing of my music tastes lately.  I seem to oscillate between electronic/techno/dance to industrial to hard rock/heavy metal and back again.  Though I guess I also find myself going in for the light background stuff lately.  The kind of chill, downtempo stuff that is relaxing.  Amy Winehouse (as fucked up as she is), Lemon Jelly, De-Phazz, lots of good choices.  Though I do find myself quickly falling into the OCD categorization mode again.  There is an overwhelming need to tag and label and genre and sub-genre all my music before I can actually listen to it.  In fact, for wanting to talk about music, I’m sitting here in silence listening to the sounds of crickets and frogs coming in from the open windows…