I'm curious, so tell me

When you encounter a mirror unexpectedly in a public place, so that for a moment you don't realize the person you see is yourself... what surprises you about what you see?

Music!

I just bought a ton of music:

• Nude by VAST(what the hell, I've been listening a lot more to Music For People lately...)


• 2 AM Wakeup Call by Tweaker, an entire album about insomnia and dreams


• Floodland by Sisters of Mercy


• Mezzanine by Massive Attack


• Deep Forest by Deep Forest
(the top review says: It's not that different from what we hear today from Fatboy Slim and Moby, except of course with Pygmies. Um, yeah! I must have it!)

• Cantata Mundi by Adiemus (remember the shout-out I gave to their other album, Songs of Sanctuary, lately?)

So, two re-buys of CDs I've owned for years but which have wandered away (the middle two), two albums being heavily compared to NIN's The Fragile (the first two), and two world / new age / whatever. I possibly shouldn't be spending the money, and my CD rack is so full that this will make it overflow and cause a storage crisis, but I so rarely get inspired to explore music that I thought I should take advantage of it. :)

Also, I just discovered pandora.com, which is bad because I have that nagging, tickling feeling that someone else has already posted about it and I forgot and now I'm being a dweeb by acting like I just heard of it. But... it's nifty. You can enter a song that you like, and it makes up a custom "radio station" of songs that are similar to that song in some really sophisticated ways. Give it a shot if you missed that earlier post by whoever already mentioned it.