a peek at my playlist: to sleep

Ever since I got a cellphone (2008, IIRC, at the start of pre-medical yo!), I've stuffed it with as much music as I possibly could. I progressed from a 50MB memory card to a 1GB, then 2GB, and finally 4GB. Why stop here you may ask? It's enough for me and it doesn't feel like I'm swimming in music that I will not focus on ever. I managed my music library, painstakingly filling in metadata. And then, learned the fine art of making playlists. I've got a playlist for depression, aggression, Fiona Apple's brilliance, epic movie scores, studying, one named 'shutup', another named 'vacancy signs' and so on.... and then there's one called 'come sleep'.

It's just as the title suggests, it's something for me to fall asleep to. I don't always need a little musical nudge to fall asleep, but it's for those days when I can't empty my over-active mind. Clicky here if the embedded playlist is not working.

Does it work? For me, yeah. I usually nod off around Watch you sleeping or Prologue: Across the Sky.

So, what do you guys fall asleep to?

So, there's this article...

....which was published at the end of last month by Akshatha Shetty on  Border Movement, and I would've posted about it here earlier, but I was so excited -pretty much floating in clouds ever since I read it- when it came out, and just needed sometime to absorb it first. I get all tingly and smiley whenever I think about it. Here ya go guys. Thank you so much, Akshatha, for the kind words. 

(Oh, and it took me a while to remember that the accompanying lines of poetry mentioned with the description of the track Dreaming were in the .pdf booklet I made when I was putting the evening/dreaming tracks together in a single package. You can download the whole thing here!)

Lights, malware and the sun

Hey folks!

So we're about four tracks into Aphelion, and we're still on the dark side of the orbit. But no worries! The end is all sunny. Aphelion is a process of moving towards the sun, amidst restlessness, aimless drifting and bad, bad days... really bad days. Or letting it find you, whichever way you want to look at it. Because, uhm, life isn't linear, it moves in circles, hence the stumbling upon old things again and again. The crashing headlong into the same blue. The whole one-step-forward-and-two-steps-back processes. 

Anyway, I am currently in the process of being obsessed with First Aid Kit. I was minding my own business, really, browsing around on the internet, looking up songs from way back when myspace was popular. And voila! This lovely article comes up, and I end up listening to The Lion's Roar.

First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar from Wichita Recordings on Vimeo.

I am also currently digging my merry way through the soundtrack of all three Lord of the Rings movies, It's wonderful to justturn it on, sit back, relax and daydream about Viggo Mortensen... I mean, going off on an adventure, fighting orcsies, and uh, hanging out with elves. 

This is also pretty awesome. Yes, I just discovered it.

Also, had plenty of adventures with removing malware from my laptop when I tried to install Halo from an unreliable source. That was fun. Lesson learnt: download from a less sketchy site. 

And that's all for now, I guess.
Later guys!