The count continues with “2″..
- Slow Moving Lifeform 2 by Deepspace from the album Slow Moving Lifeforms Volume 1.
- Atrus’ Theme by Robyn Miller from the album Myst II: Riven.
- Radio Swan Is Down Part 2 by Laura from the album Radio Swan Is Down.
- Whitecaps of White Noise II by Tim Hecker from the album Harmony In Ultraviolet.
- Part Two by MONO & World’s End Girlfriend from the album Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain.
- 2. Satz: Gewitter Energy Rise Energy Collaps by Klaus Schulze from the album Irrlicht.
- A Game Of Two Shoulders by Damion Albern & Michael Nyman from the album Ravenous.
- Guitar Solo 2 by Neil Young from the album Dead Man (Soundtrack).
- Tension 2 by Blue Man Group from the album Audio.
- Second To Last by The Sea Shall Not Have Them from the album Traces.
- czech disco ptII by Hangedup from the album Hangedup.
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I have a rather large music collection to bring to bear to create episodes of CAFFEEN!. Whenever I need to put together an episode, I have to figure out some way to navigate that ever-growing continent of music. Sometimes, I find a theme, or the music itself suggests it to me. Being wordless, it doesn’t have lyrics to guide me..
So, this month’s themes are simply a number: starting at 1 and counting up. The first of this is this episode, entitled, simply: “1″.
- Call Of The Siren Part One by The Simonsound from the album Reverse Engineering.
- Music for Twin Peaks Episode #30, Part 1 by Stars of the Lid from the album The Ballasted Orchestra.
- Win One For The Reaper by Michael Giacchino from the album Lost.
- South of the Cloud by OneWay (Princess Shook Head after Listening) from the album Rock.
- Lucifer Rising 1 by Bobby BeauSoleil from the album Lucifer Rising.
- One Last Glare by Shalabi Effect from the album The Trial of St-Orange.
- First Attack by Toto from the album Dune.
- Helicon 1 by Mogwai from the album Ten Rapid.
- Part I by Controlled Bleeding from the album Our Journey’s End.
- Touch Of Evil by Jaga Jazzist from the album One-Armed Bandit.
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May 2012 see you with more time, more friends and more money than ever before.. Each year I face the question: do I repeat any music, or do I always press forward with new music? Every year, the answer is the same: repeat nothing within the year, but repeat some of what has come before, include some new. This playlist is a perfect example, running from a very old, very new-age album I picked up somewhere in Toronto in the 90s to an album we received at the radio station not more than a month or two ago.
Enjoy the new year, and enjoy the music!
Playlist
- No Sign Of Yesterday by One from the album Four September Suns.
- Daybreak by Bela Fleck from the album Natural Bridge.
- Lady Sun Part I by Moksha Ensemble from the album Lady Sun.
- Radiant Blue by Chad Hoefler from the album Quiet Glow.
- great day by itsnotyouitsme from the album walled gardens.
- The remains of the day by Mono from the album You Are There.
- No more bad future by Hangedup from the album Kicker in tow.
- You, You’re Awesome by Do Make Say Think from the album You, You’re History In Rust.
- The Birth And Death Of The Day by Explosions In The Sky from the album All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone.
- At The End Of The Day by Amon Tobin from the album Foley Room.
- After The Show by The Lazy MK’s from the album Where We Bin.
Becoming someone else is hard.
I don’t mean changing who you actually are, but rather, the process of putting on a role, such as what an actor or a gamer does.
I’m not really an actor — I’ve done some audio drama and one stage play in high school — but I am a gamer. I love to game, but have a very hard time truly inhabiting a character. To do that requires, I think, a certain sense of empathy and imagination, which I have when I’m writing, but when it comes to gaming I’m often just a bit too tired to focus and summon that skill.
I should clarify for the newbs: when I say “gaming”, I’m not referring to video games, I’m referring to old-school, table-top, pen-and-paper, dice-and-character-sheets, game-master-and-players kind of gaming. I’ve been doing that since about 1991, playing in dozens of games — perhaps hundreds by now? I’ve probably run a dozen or two games, with varying success, and I’ve written game skeletons, fictions and even a few very bad game systems.
When I say “gaming”, I mean gaming.
And it’s hard to do.
At least for me..
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I don’t have a lot of rituals. I have a few patterns, like my morning routine, but they aren’t filled with any meaning. They are functional patterns, designed to take me from initial State A to End State B with an efficient number of steps, established through many years of practice and slow, gradual, mostly subconscious modification.
But tonight I picked up chestnuts. Honest-to-God, 100% edible, roastable-just-like-the-song chestnuts. And I will roast them, probably Thursday night, and I will eat them. And it will be ritual, a welcoming sign of the Christmas season approaching.
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Doesn't a bat-shaped molasses cookie scream "Christmas!" to you?
I like to cook. I don’t often have the time these days, and I don’t have nearly enough experience to make anything grand, but when I do have a chance, I go for it.
It’s difficult to point to exactly why I enjoy cooking. I’m not a great chef, so I have plenty of failures (but being stubborn and unwilling to waste anything, they are generally still eaten). I don’t have lots of money or fancy tools, so the meals I make aren’t exotic or fancy. I don’t have anyone to cook for besides myself (generally), so there isn’t much satisfaction garnered from others.
To the 'stache, I'm adding a soul patch, goatee and sideburns (not yet visible).
What is it about the late-night craving that is so intense?
I’ve already had my supper. I ate lunch. I had a bagel for breakfast. Sure, the meals weren’t grand and huge, but they were tasty. Ok, maybe I didn’t entirely feel satisfied after each meal, but that’s normal, right? You’re not supposed to feel full, right?
But later that night, I’m feeling peckish. That is to say, stark raving hungry. I could eat a horse (provided you could cook it), or at least a small flock of birds. Someone mentions running out for a late-night burger, and suddenly: I’m ravenous.
So, I try to satiate the beast. I have a bun. A bagel is unfrozen. Maybe a cookie.
Nothing works.
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I'm Seein' Things, believe me, you ain't never seen before...
Perception is a tricky thing, and it’s often wrong.
Well, not wrong as such, but rather it depends a lot on the perceiver, including their mood, their mind and their experiences.
Throughout this Movember experience, I’ve been trying to figure out what my moustache was going to look like. I’ve had several moustaches in the past, but they were all cleverly concealed within the confines of a beard. That way, they don’t get illusions of striking out on their own and conquering Hollywood, or Broadway or Stratford..
But as I challenged my self-identity over these last couple of months — or rather, as I challenged my perceivable self-identity — the target and result have flown around considerably.
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Halloween is near, and the playlists intensify!
- Demon’s Lair by Evil Ambient from the album Halloween.
- Oblivion by Lustmord from the album Metavoid.
- Austin Texas Mental Hospital, Part 3 by Stars of the Lid from the album The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid.
- Nightgaunts by Cyoakha Grace O’Manion from the album Unknown Music from Dream Quest of Kadath.
- black note two by Terminal Sound System from the album Black Note.
- Makrokosmos, Vol. II: 12 Fantasy Pieces After The Zodiac: A Prophecy Of Nostradamus – Aries by Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa from the album Cosmophony.
- proof of life by aurel from the album thousand lifes ep.
- Jour Et Nuit by Christopher Bissonette from the album In Between Words.
- Exorcism In Bb Minor by Ansomatica from the album East Coast Halloween Sampler I.
- Lucifer Rising 6 by Bobby BeauSoleil from the album Lucifer Rising.
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The month of October is all about the Halloween build-up. All the playlists work to not only do the normal thing of move from the Dreamlands to the Waking World, but also to send frissons where possible..
(Sorry about how late this is in posting..)
- Ritual of a Dark Coven by Ashtorath from the album .
- Mistral by Loscil from the album Plume.
- In prelight isolate by Set Fire to Flames from the album Telegraphs in Negative /Mouths Trapped in Static.
- The Optimist by kino-glaz from the album Fifty Year Spectacular.
- StrangeProcession by Michael Brook from the album RockPaperScissors.
- Suspiria by Goblin from the album Suspiria: The Complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
- Reanimator by Amon Tobin from the album Permutation.
- Frances The Mutant by KUATO from the album Summer EP.
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