45 minutes, 58 seconds

Eridu Arcane
The Dying of an Ageless Day

The pace at which I've been moving through my CD collection has slowed somewhat. This may be due to my sister-in-law's having moved in with us temporarily. She graduated from nursing school this past May, and now she's studying for her board certification exams. Once she passes those, she'll get a job and, one assumes (hopes?) her own apartment. In the meantime, she studies in the living room, and I'm cooped up in my office all day, writing marketing materials for the World's Most Boring Software Company® and, of course, blogging.

But whereas I once blasted music all day from the six-disc changer attached to the main stereo, filling the house with the blissful sounds of, uh, hammering beats and ungodly machine noise, now I'm reduced to feeding CDs one by one into my PC and listening to them on the tinny speakers attached to my iMac. It's just not the same. Plus, when I leave the room for a moment, I can't hear the music anymore. So I pause it, then resume when I return.

Then there's also the issue of not wanting to subject her to this music. I like her, and I'm aware of the fact that this stuff isn't to most people's tastes, certainly not hers. And I'm not talking about the inoffensive stuff (like Eridu Arcane) but more the "difficult" music of, say, Feindflug. So I have to be more judicious about playing music in other situations as well, such as in the car. I'm not driving alone to the gym anymore, or to the grocery store. She's usually riding shotgun.

So, yes, this goofy blog project will likely take longer as a result, and you'll be reading more boring posts like this one. Blame it on my sister-in-law.

Also today:

45:57 Feindflug, Hirnschlacht
45:56 Funker Vogt, T (CD 1 of 2)
45:53 Absurd Minds, Deception
45:53 Any Questions?, Death
45:53 Solar Enemy, Dirty Vs. Universe
45:52 Fusspils 11, Gib Ihr Einen Namen
New arrival! 73:47 KIFOTH, Acerbity Torrent
New arrival! 58:54 Simulacrum, Zeugma
45:52 Parca Pace, Raumspannung
45:52 Phelios, Passage
45:52 Potentia Animi, Psalm II
45:51 Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke, Duality (CD 1 of 2)