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So, for two months now, I've woken up every day and said to myself: "I should write something on DreamWidth!", and then I stare into the Twitter abyss for a few hours. But, Twitter is getting really really intolerable now... like really really bad. Also, my ability to focus on tasks, make plans, and execute them, has been improving, no thanks to the American medical system. (Seriously, it always sounded like a kooky conspiracy theory, but I think the medical system in the United States is designed to kill people. (Primarily through withholding of medical treatment.))

I've considered writing down my nightly dreams when I wake up from sleep... Because I have a lot of really vivid ones, but I have difficulty recalling them after even moderate lengths of time. In the past month, I've had several dreams about going to college, or just taking place on several different (dream-like) college campuses. This morning I had a large portion my my dream taking place in the abandoned offices of SGI in Mountain View... I guess in that dream universe, Google didn't move into the SGI buildings twenty years ago. There were some cubicles left, but mostly it was carpeted open space on a second floor, going to an atrium and stairs to the first floor and entrance. There was a sever room downstairs, and some small business was renting a small part of the building, so there were some people working there. I went up to the roof (outside) with some other people, and stuff happened, I don't remember, and there were some conference rooms, on the roof, but enclosed, so they were regular rooms with glass doors and windows opening to the roof. In one there were a bunch of local furries I know (who could even be reading this now, if any of them actually still used LJ/DW, but they don't) having a party. It was fun. There were some sales people doing stuff in the next conference room over... Oh yeah, I was walking around with a friend of mine, and commenting on stuff as we were exploring.

There was something else about how I had programed a popular and famous cat AI, used for AI research, and it was based on my own cat, who was also in the dream, in my backyard, with three other cats hanging around which I had never seen before.

I have a lot of dreams involving music, and I really need to somehow get these songs out of my head and into tangible form so other people can hear them. I don't have much experience with the tangible creation of music in any form however.

A while ago, I woke up with a mash-up between Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ minor, Op. 23, Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso – Allegro con spirito and Kalehoff's theme song from "The Price is Right" television game show. In my head these two pieces of music can totally be combined together.

Good:

Obama was elected President. I feel as though a crushing weight has been lifted from my soul.

Bad:

Prop 8 passed. I'm not constantly agonizing about this anymore. And I don't feel like I'm going to hit anyone with blunt objects now because of it.

Good:

MTV is putting all of their videos up online, so you can watch them any time you like.
OMGOMG! You have no idea how happy this makes me! I feared that I may never see these videos again.
These videos are the foundation of my musical taste. This is what I used to listen to back in high school. (This is what Alternative music was before Grunge.) MTV would only play stuff like this for about two hours from 1am to 3am on Sunday nights.

Now bare [bear?] witness to the depths of my soul:

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities In The Dust
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound
The Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion
The Sisters Of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection
The Sisters of Mercy - Dominion (I much prefer these mixes to the versions on Floodland, also in high school, people though I was weird because I had a thing for Patricia Morrison.)
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To make a long story short, the post-lyrics-from-random-songs-meme is going around again. (Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C) And that's been percolating around in my head with This Post and This Post

Growing up in Idaho, MTV's 120 Minutes was my only exposure to real culture, and heavily influenced my musical tastes. For those of you too young to know what I'm talking about: Once upon a time, MTV used to show music videos - almost all the time. Most of the time these were Top-40 crap, but for two hours in the middle of the night between Sunday and Monday, they played Alternative music. This was before Nirvana and Perl Jam became popular — The point at which the Alternative genre turned from Goth/Industrial/Punk/etc. into Light-Guitar-Rock clones of Nirvana.

Just to be different from everyone else, I'm not going to post lyrics; I'm going to post audio clips! Listen to each clip and try to figure out who the Artist and Song is. Each clip is exactly sixty seconds long. I was considering posting 120 of them, so that there would be 120-Minutes of audio clips, but I figured that no one would have the time to listen to two hours of stuff right now. So, I'm going to make ten posts of twelve songs each.

To make things easier, I've selected clips from videos that actually appeared on 120 Minutes (or Post Modern MTV if you remember that). Just take it on faith for the moment that if I really wanted to stump everyone with obscure music, I could.

Oh yeah, and I accidentally left the ID3 tags on these MP3s when I edited them down. Don't cheat by looking at them.

Audio Clip	Artist	Song Title	Who Got It
Minute 001:	-	-
Minute 002:	-	-
Minute 003:	-	-
Minute 004:	The Creatures	Standing There	caffeina
Minute 005:	The JudyBats	Don't Drop The Baby	girlvinyl
Minute 006:	This Picture	Naked Rain	the_misha
Minute 007:	-	-
Minute 008:	-	-
Minute 009:	Drivin-N-Cryin	Fly Me Courageous	girlvinyl
Minute 010:	Love And Rockets	No New Tale To Tell	girlvinyl
Minute 011:	Peter Murphy	All Night Long	girlvinyl
Minute 012:	Peter Schilling	The Different Story	qdot

Commercial Break!

I don't know [because I don't read my web logs] how many of you have noticed: 1. Livejournal allows hyperlinks in the "Current Music" field. 2. I've been putting links to audio clips in my last several posts.