Tuesday, July 09, 2002
Still reading Vitals by Greg Bear. Chilling... very very chilling. If you have any interest in consparacy theories, I highly recommend this book. I wouldn't say I put too much weight behind such things myself, but with a healthy dose of ingrained paranoia, I'm finding it quite gripping.Started listening to a compilation of Gary Numan albums on mp3 cd sent to me by a friend some time back. His earlier works are deffinately superior to his more recent output. He seemed to lose the plot somewhat after working with Bill Sharpe and embracing midi over analogue synths. Thoroughly enjoying hearing Dance and I Assasin again.
I find it amusing that Numan's most recent album totally rips off Nine Inch Nails, when in the beginning, NIN was pretty much copying Numan. Having said that, they're both derivative of Bowie's earlier works. Neither would exist were it not for Low, but then you could say that of a lot of bands.
There's something about sitting here with my head burried in a good book, listening to old music... it gets the creative juices flowing. Nothing specific as such, but I feel the rumblings of something in there. I guess it's good brain execise, kickstarts the lower levels of my subconcious. It's hard to say if I'll actually do anything though. The musical urge rather stalled when I got stuck on a tune I was making a month or so back, and I haven't written anything in ages. I need some kind of life to relate to before I can write... human interaction outide of the net, and there's precious little of that in my life at the moment. I do keep dabbling with photoshop though, mostly just tinkering with photographs, or creating striking images from what were originally grainy low res webcam images. It's fun and satisfying, but not really inspired work.
Steve 4:02 PM [+]
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