My nice little monthly cd (compliments of yourmusic, which has my highest recommendation - it really is as straightforward as it looks) came yesterday, which is always exciting. I didn't get home 'til 9, at which point I just wanted to sleep, so it wasn't until tonight that I got a chance to listen.

For the Masses (A Depeche Mode Tribute). Now I love Depeche Mode, I do I do, but there are times listening to an album of theirs I zone out a bit and get lost in the.. oh idek, something in the sound gets repetitive after awhile. (I suppose it's just that I find certain songs stronger than whole albums in their case.) This album? Has some fantastic things - Hooverphonic's cover of "Shake the Disease" I've played 432890 times before, it's wonderful.
And then there's The Cure on a song, which, obviously, is fantastic, and the Smashing Pumpkins song is wonderful, and--- Really, it's just great, there are some very creative yet always appropriate interpretations of the songs. If you have any liking at all for DM or the genre in general, this is well worth looking into. :) I'm loving, and I know already this is going to be my writing soundtrack for a good while as we head into fall (and thus more melancholy music season).

...of course, as my last.fm testifies, I have yet to kick the Pirates soundtrack habit. It's just too good, too epic and grandiose and wonderful and dramatic, it's perfect for writing Phistos.

Which reminds me I'm supposed to be typing in edits to the desert story not posting nonsense on my blog. And I have a lunch still to pack and I wanted to be in bed early tonight sonofabitch.