How to destroy Angels

I checked NIN's site and lo and behold Trent Reznor has released a new album as part of new band called How to Destroy Angels. Yay! I downloaded free album. The whole album is sung by Mariqueen Maandig. The first song "Space in between" is a slow song and it is my favorite. The second song Parasite starts off with a lot of distortion that is quite so like NIN. I wasn't particularly enthralled by the third song 'Fur-Lined'. The fourth song is interesting. It back the same style as the second. So is the fifth. The sixth one is like the first and is great

AC Vents & Jane's addiction

If there is one thing that can drive me nuts at workplace, it is the AC vents. The side effects of it are many.
Folks start to speak louder in an attempt to drown out the noise. Resorting to working from else in the work area would earn you the title "The nomad, the one who never sits at the desk, the one who is not reachable for face time" etc. This is when noise cancellation headphones come to rescue! The ones from Bose work. Listening to music using these headphones has been a very good experience. However there are problems with that. It drowns out all the "hallway conversations/discussion of ideas" that you can always join/contribute and learn from. Arrggh.

God quips in as usual: Numbskull you can get reusable earplugs for less than $5 instead of using the headphones and adding to the landfill with the batteries that you use for them.

Me conveniently ignores God. Who listens to he/she/it anyway? Come on after all God is responsible for the biggest fuck ups till date by creating/evolving humans!

I digress. Over the long weekend, there was a huge seating reshuffle. I got shafted to smaller desk area and near a louder air vent. Arrrgggh! All the team members are kind of annoyed. They share the pain. This is when Jane's Addiction came to rescue. I started the day with Kettle Whistle. It is a pretty good song.

I heard Jane's Addiction for the first time at NIN's farewell tour in 2009. I drove couple of hundred miles to another city to go that tour since I missed their performance locally :D JA's opening was a full blast of raw/energetic music that blew me away. I bought 2 cds of JA. Yes, I buy cd's. I buy them from used cd stores. I am not a fan of online music stores.

Drum and Bass

It seems like an eternity and I feel like if I struck gold! I cry that I didn't come across this before. Mini explosions go off in my head with each beat of the music track. The struggle of keeping a smiling face when all your face wants to do is to contort into different expressions expressing the joy! The impossible immobility that is required when all your body wants is an escape from the confines of the chair and break out into a dance!

This is what happens when you listen to a Drum and Bass cd collection with the Bullet Time (Spor mix) as the starting song. An early day in the office and I got bored of the usual music I listen to and turned to this cd collection my friend shared with me. Mistake, a big Mistake! I am hooked! I can't turn this collection off! Help me! I am working and listening to this. I am being pulled into opposite directions. Help me!!!!!!!!!!

The New Regime

NIN's drummer Ilan Rubin released a solo album titled "The Coup". It is available for free download and also be streamed from band's site.

I believe in Love!

Yup, that was Elton John. I was listening to Elton John when I started on a 3hr drive. Started the car and Nine Inch Nails started to blare, nnooooo NIN at 10.00am. Slapped in the connector to the mp3 player a then Elton John was on, then came the soundtrack of Notting Hill.
I was driving, with the sun rays hitting me alternating between the trees, filling me with the warmth, on a cold day, the music, just did it,

The rendition of She "Elvis Costello" is just great! The lyrics (source: http://www.lyricskeeper.com/notting_hill

_soundtrack-lyrics/64576-she-lyrics.htm) ,

She may be the face I can't forget
The trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay

She may be the song the summer sings
May be the chill the autumn brings
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of the day.

She may be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell

She may be the mirror of my dream
The smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell

She, who always seems so happy in a crowd
Whose eyes can be so private and so proud
No one's allowed to see them when they cry

She may be the love that cannot hope to last
May come to me from shadows of the past
That I'll remember till the day I die

She may be the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I'm alive
The one I'll care for through the rough and ready years
Me, I'll take her laughter and her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
For where she goes, I've got to be
The meaning of my life is...she

Whoa, ohhhh...She
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Elton John's other songs like the ones below are some of my fav's.

• "Candle in the Wind"
• Sacrifice
• Can You Feel the Love Tonight

Then came some other assorted stuff and out of the blue I was reflected on the moment. At that moment there I was, a part of me

• Enjoying the scenery of the drive
• Enjoying the music
• Maintaining a calculative look at the traffic far ahead
• Maintaining a 3 mirror rule.
• Of course reflecting on the moment

Fun! Yay! for multi-tasking.