Some of you may have noticed I’d posted my X-Chat Now Playing script yesterday and removed the post today. That’s because its inter-thread communication was broken. This new version seems to be working. I’m gonna poke at it occasionally and when it feels functional enough, I’ll submit at the site—not that it doesn’t work great already. Yeah, I know I said that yesterday too, but this time, I mean it.
jesus X passed me a baton and I do think it’d be a shame if I broke such an interesting chain. It took me well over an hour to give it enough thought and it was still pretty impossible to make a choice, but I tried my best. Note that none of the lists are in any particular order. So here goes …
Total volume of music files on my computer:
A lot. I couldn’t possibly live without music.
Last CD I bought:
Damodara 3 by Damodara, an indie album I bought on a street corner. I discussed it earlier.
Playing right now:
Raining Again by Moby, from Hotel.
Five songs that mean a lot to me:
Losing My Religion by R.E.M.: The first song I can remember hearing and probably the one I’ll have listened to most—ever.
Oxygene 4 by Jean-Michel Jarre: For driving me towards playing the synthesizer and possibly going into electronic music altogether.
Hypnotic Tango by My Mine: For bringing italo disco into my life definitively. Absolutely lovely.
The Chase by Giorgio Moroder: A massively catchy tune that will be stuck in my head for a long time.
Swedish Designer Drugs by Daan: His second album may not have been very ground-breaking, but this track is solid gold—along with a couple on the massively underrated Bridge Burner bonus CD.
Five albums that mean a lot to me:
Release by the Pet Shop Boys: Gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling inside when I was walking home one hot evening. It was hard to pick just one album—Nightlife is a really close second.
The First Album by Miss Kittin & The Hacker: Arguably the best electro album ever produced and definitely a trend-setter. I’ve listened to it a million times.
Es Wird Morgen by 2raumwohnung: I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of that typical 2raumwohnung sound. They never cease to amaze me.
The Best of New Order: Now, these guys are absolute geniuses. Enough said.
Escape by Enrique Iglesias: Laugh all you want, it’s what cheers me up when I’m feeling down. It’s one of the perks of being gay.
Five people to whom I’m passing the baton:
Abigail: For putting up with me.
Joris: Because I’d really like to see what he makes of it.
Jago: Because he’s into music and his blog lacks content.
Zulma: For the sake of our organs.
O’Toole: Because I’m wondering if he’d take it seriously.
You know that show on Vitaya where that black woman visits a family, has a yard sale with the stuff they have lying around and then redecorates their house with the money, turning an ug-lay dump into an ug-lay clean place? No, bitch, I ain’t talkin’ ’bout Debbie Travis ’cause she ain’t no black woman who has yard sales, now, is she? Anyway, that show rocks like a god-damned rockin’ chair.
Yeah, I blame the heat.
Joris linked to What is Your World View? (updated) so it has to be decent. My results:
You scored as Materialist.
Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental particles. Everything that exists is purely physical matter and there is no special force that holds life together. You believe that anything can be explained by breaking it up into its pieces. i.e. the big picture can be understood by its smaller elements.
Materialist: 100%
Modernist: 94%
Postmodernist: 81%
Existentialist: 56%
Romanticist: 50%
Cultural Creative: 44%
Idealist: 38%
Fundamentalist: 19%
I’m not surprised, but actually rather pleased. Physics kick ass.