22.Sep.2003

distract yourself with music version six point now

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blatant normality

My mother's red blood cell count is low, which could indicate internal bleeding along the pancreal area. She was issued a CT Scan. We are still waiting for the results.

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On a completely different but ridiculously enveloping note, I've buried my face deep into the chamber of all things music. I have also successfully orchestrated a few mix compilations that brighten my day, much like Merlot red wine on an empty stomach at 3:15 on a Monday afternoon in September.

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The Best of the Smashing Pumpkins According to Me

End is the Beginning is the End
1979
Stand Inside Your Love
Shame
Eye
Blues Skies Bring Tears
Starla
Obscured
Daphne Descends
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Tonight Tonight
To Forgive
Sweet Sweet
Glass and the Ghost Children

Under the Milky Way
Precious, if you download any of these, I'll turn you into a feather boa.

Opening
Echo and the Bunnymen: "Killing Moon (All Night Version)"
Smashing Pumpkins "Blue Skies Bring Tears"
Nine Inch Nails "Leaving Hope"
Bjork "All is Full of Love (Strings Mix)"
Michael Williams (Donnie Darko) "Burn it to the Ground"
The Church "Under the Milky Way"
Cocteau Twins "Alice"
Massive Attack "Everywhen"
Deine Lakaien "Into My Arms"
Duran Duran "Come Undone"
Disquieter "Counting Backwards"
Disquieter "Counting Forwards (RavieSlave Mix)"
Peter Gabriel "Ngankarrparni"
Thomas Newman "Angela Undress"
Spiritualized "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space"

Short_Changed

Halou "You Are One of Us"
Babylon Zoo "Zodiac"
Camper van Beethoven "Pictures of Matchstick Men"
Filter "The Only Way is the Wrong Way"
Placebo "Taste in Men"
Failure "Stuck on You"
Cracker "Low"
New Order "Ceremony"
Nick Drake "Cello Song"
Joy Division "Day of the Lords"
Marcy Playground "Coming Up From Behind"
Mercury Rev "Dark is Rising"
Bauhaus "The Passion of Lovers"

Passion or Coincidence?

Duran Duran "Ordinary World"
Tears for Fears "Mad World"
The Cure "Lullaby (Extended Mix)"
Thompson Twins "If You Were Here"
Oingo Boingo "Insanity"
The Human League "You're My Obsession (Extended Mix)"
Depeche Mode "Photographic (Some Bizarre Version)"
Deep Forest and Peter Gabriel "While the Earth Sleeps"
Men at Work "It's a Mistake"
Dire Straits "On Every Street"
Erasure "Waiting for Sex"
You're not the world's most handsome man, believe me.

Composing Room Floor

Robert Plant "Come Into My Life"
Massive Attack "Name Taken"
Radiohead "Bishop's Robes"
Brian Eno "Music for Airports"
Bjork "Play Dead"
David Holmes "No Man's Land"
David Bowie "The Pretty Things are Going to Hell"
Curve "Beyond Reach"
Orbital "Halcyon and On and On"
Pink Floyd "A Great Day for Freedom"
Goldfrapp "Forever"
And others upon which I haven't decided.

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time & machine