Feb. 23rd, 2011

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I've been spending the past few days in a mood where all I really want to do is wrap other people's stories around me and never come up for air. I get this way sometimes -- it's often a symptom of a blue funk, but it also appears on its own because... honestly, I think it's just that I get tired of the inside of my own head now and then and want somebody else to handle inventing the world for a while.

On a not unrelated note, I am monumentally uninspired by all my WIPs right now. :-/

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Moving on! For my birthday, Vicky got me two CDs: Robert Plant's Band of Joy and the Decemberists' The King Is Dead, because I absolutely love Raising Sand (Plant's collaboration with Alison Krauss) and Vicky turned me on to the Decemberists around 2003/2004. Anyway, I like Band of Joy, but not as much as Raising Sand. I reacted to Band of Joy the way I do to most albums -- there are a few songs I love, a few I like, and a few I am somewhere between "meh" and "...thanks, but no" about. Raising Sand, on the other hand, does not have a single track I am less than "yay!" about, which suggests to me that I should look into Alison Krauss's solo work to see what she brought to that collaboration. *grin* (I already know I like Led Zeppelin, so I am not nearly so driven to explore Plant's solo works.)

As for The King Is Dead, I have only one thing to say: I think all ten songs on it are earworms. And I am perfectly okay having them all stuck in my head. *bigger grin* (Well, okay, two things: one of my favorite things about the Decemberists is that they are musical magpies -- they keep experimenting with different musical genres and styles -- and on this album they've gone kind of folk with traces of country, which is a sound I tend to like in general, so it's like two of my favorite flavors tasting even better together. *biggest grin*)

That's pretty much all. As I have remarked before, I lead a boring life. *wry*

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