music, video games and the Hazards of Love

MusIc ~

I think one of my bigger obsessions - and I give this particular obsession such a high rating because it's one of my longest running - is music. It incorporates a subset of obessibles which is, for me at least, the written word.

I can really think long and hard about lyrics and what the musicians' inner English Professors are trying to say to my inner English Undergraduate. It's amazing I never majored in English now that I think about it. I love libraries and reading and book fairs. I have a tendency to shy away from jobs that encompass my inner-most loves, for fear said employment will disenamour me of my lifejoys.

I also have a tendency of gowing with the flow, so to speak, when it comes to jobs. I just kinda get dropped into jobs without so much as a plan as to what it is I want. I am working for Emagination, which offers specialized summer programs for video game design. And while I know Computer hates me in ways I can't understand, I am in love with video games - I always have been. My ideal gift is video game related - or music related - funny how these tangeants have a way of coming back around!

So I want to express my indie-me favorite album. I also want to say this album transcends the indie scene into a genre of their own. The Decemerist's The Hazards of Love is a stolbum (story + album = stolbum). And I have outlistened my last.fm's worth of free listening of said stolbum and am anxiously awaiting the arrival (on Friday, pleeeaassseee Friday) of this most glorious musical journey. Buy this stolbum, oh my God, buy this stolbum!