71 minutes, 29 seconds

E-Craft
Status (CD 1 of 2)

Yesterday I made a flippant comment about the music I listen to--namely, that it's something I probably should have outgrown a long time ago. Because by age 36, shouldn't I be bopping along to Norah Jones, Sting, and other assorted Grammy®-winning artists? Or, if I were one of those cool, alternative 30-somethings (you know, the kind with ripped skinny jeans and dyed hair pushing around a baby stroller with their pierced wives), shouldn't Radiohead, the Shins, and TV on the Radio be on my iPod as I ignore my baby's insistent crying?

Well, no baby. No dyed hair. No Shins. Instead, still listening to Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, and Front 242. Still going to Laibach shows and getting jostled by goth kids half my age. Still trolling for news about the new Der Blutharsch CD.

But I love this music, and I'm not sure why I feel even slightly ashamed to say so. Or why I'm flippant about it when people ask me what I listen to. (Stock response: "You don't want to know. I have very bad taste in music." or, if pressed, "Electronic music from Europe, mostly." "Oh, like Erasure and Depeche Mode!" "Uh, well, no...") One friend I made the mistake of opening up to about music now constantly asks me, "Bought any new Nazi folk music lately?"

But that's OK. This has always been a private passion for me, and it probably always will be. I just wish people who listen to Sting felt the same way.

Also today:

71:26 Tactical Sekt, Burn Process
71:24 Dead Can Dance, 1981-1998 (CD 3 of 3)
71:24 Dense Vision Shrine, Die My Illusion
71:23 Helium Vola, Liod
71:21 Skinny Puppy, Back and Forth, Series 2
71:20 Front 242, 05:22:09:12 Off