Nicht/Neü

I have nothing new to write about. No new Music Mondays. Nothing that feels new to my ears. Everything I listen to sounds bland and rehashed.

This second half (and year in general) have kind of been a disappointment for me on the topic of new music. There have only been a small handful of albums that have really stuck with me for more than a week (if that long at all). So that's one reason Music Monday lists have been really sparse. There haven't even been that many situations in which I find good mixes among my library. There was The Walkmen (which I do have a MM list for, just waiting to be finished), but that is the most recent album I've been infatuated with at all. I think I've entered into my yearly cleansing phase.

Every year, around the time of Texas' Fall (the rest of the country's winter) I enter into this phase where nothing is fun anymore regarding music. Or Modern music I should say. Every tone and chord is more stale and greasy than an El Arroyo tortilla chip. I put away my iPod for the winter, bundle up to my record player and let some seriously old favorites guide me through my hibernation. This usually means a lot of Beatles, old film scores and Classical music. The Beatles because no matter what they own my thoughts, and the film scores and Classical music because I've found that nothing sounds better piped over the speakers of a nice system and LP player than strings and piano. This fall/winter is proving no different because I'm finding new compositions and lush arrangements left and right, and I'm not even trying.

*this is actually proving to be a great idea for a series of Music Mondays for the season...hmm*

This isn't one of those pity party posts that a lot of bloggers are good at (although I am very good at that, and try though as I might, I'm sure I'll have sooner or later), but rather a post of updates, and something to shed some light on the ever-evolving shape of this space. Also, I feel that if I write it here, there's a better chance of it happening than if I just kept it in the ol' noggin.

So there's something to look forward to... Hibernation Lists, more Octopus-themed Random Acts of Art, and maybe a little mock-NPR type audio production numbers (though I won't promise anything on that, just a little hint at stupid experiments in The Foggiest World).

and now a photo from Hawaiian flea market...