Day Eleven

So the "construction work" is going well. I finally decided on a theme and made a suitable interim background and banner.

I know it's not the usual kind of thing I'd go for but I've been looking at some of my cousin's photographs (he participates in a hobby called "Urban Exploration" other wise known as "dicking around in derelict buildings") and was inspired by the way rust kinda dribbles down walls. Haha, what a thing to be inspired by ^_^;; I wanted to keep everything purple because, well, I like purple and it ties in with my old theme nicely still, but the rust still looks better when it's all...rusty.

Of course I can't really tell if the banner lines up properly on other people's monitors so I hope it looks as good on your screen as it does on mine ^_^

There are some other adustments I mean to make in the future however so I'm afraid it's gonna have to remain as "undergoing maintenance" for now. Perhaps I'll work some more towards it tomorrow, but it's just a few finishing touches.

Anyhow, now for the meat of it, we reach day eleven where I must put my media player on shuffle and tell you ten songs that pop up. I'm sure you'll be thrilled to delve into my music collection ;)

1 - The Corrs - What Can I Do? - I've been having a bit of a month of nostalgia. A lot of my CD's from years gone by (I have upgraded to actually buying mp3's of late, a real leap forward lol) have been sitting around on my bookshelf for a while and I was looking at them and thinking ooh...I remember that...so I've ripped a whole load of them onto my laptop. The Corrs album "Talk on Corners" was one of the first albums I ever bought. Brings back a lot of happy childhood memories :)

2 - Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah - I love this song. Not too fussed about the versionby that crazy Xfactor bird (can't remember her name, which just goes to say an awful lot about the Xfactor really...) and I love Leonard Cohen's original, but there's something so sad and weepy about this one. Probably because all I think of is poor Shrek feeling lonesome and dejected....

3 - The Moldy Peaches - I Think I'm In Love - First introduced to me by Ben. Make of that what you like.

4 - A Perfect Circle - Pet - One of my all time favourite bands ever, though I prefer "Mer de Noms" to "Thirteenth Step". Can't remember how I got 'into' them. It was sometime in college though, and they've stayed with me ever since.

5 - Disturbed - Remember - Not quite so far back as to tug at "childhood" memories, but another tune from another album I've just rediscovered. This was, incidently, one of the first songs I ever heard by Disturbed and it's one of those that always finds its way onto my mp3 player

6 - Nirvana - You Know You're Right - More nostalgia. I was never really into Nirvana the way some people of my generation are, but I got their greatest hits album for Christmas off an uncle when it was released and I listened to it pretty much none stop for the next month. It was then relegates to the "scratches a very specific itch" pile. I put it back onto the computer along with Disturbed and The Corrs (amongst others) recently and enjoy it as much as ever.

7 - Daft Punk - Outlands - From the Tron: Legacy soundtrack, if you haven't seen Tron: Legacy I would highly recommend you give it a go when it comes round to DVD, even if it didn't seem like your kind of film, it's highly entertaining and the music is pretty epic!

8 - Enigma - The Voice and the Snake - Ah, Enigma, one of my all time favourite bands. Conjuring images of hippies with joss sticks and panpipes...my dad used to listen to them constantly in the car when I was small and they're now pretty much engrained upon my very soul. They're not everyone's cup of tea, but if you're going to listen to them it's well worth picking up one of their albums (their most famous I'd say are their first two, MCMXC AD and The Cross of Changes from whence various tunes have been pluked and then plonked haphazardly into various TV programmes and adverts) and then just sitting and listening to it the whole way through as opposed to picking out any old song. Their music works a lot better this way.

9 - Muse - Resistance - Like many of my generation, Muse was there through my teen years and is still around now making epic music as always. The Resistance is one of the albums I've currently got on repeat while I do the housework each day...it always manages to get me moving lol

10 - Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better - Pure classic. That is all.