Music to write by
I like to listen to music when I write. It took a really long time to get used to it, but I had to, given how difficult it is to come by peace and quiet in college. I just had to choose my noise. Now I find I can't write without a little background noise and familiar music to focus me.
So here's the latest suspects:
Saturday, for the gory battle scene, I did "Son Et Lumiere" and "Intertiatic ESP" by the Mars Volta, "Bodysnatchers" by Radiohead, and "Thursday" by Morphine.
Today, just for ambience, I did Elliot Smith's Figure 8, From a Basement on a Hill, and XO albums. Right now, Fiona Apple's cover of Elvis Costello's "I Want You," which is the most glorious epic, soulful thing in the world.
Who are the musics in your neighborhood?
So here's the latest suspects:
Saturday, for the gory battle scene, I did "Son Et Lumiere" and "Intertiatic ESP" by the Mars Volta, "Bodysnatchers" by Radiohead, and "Thursday" by Morphine.
Today, just for ambience, I did Elliot Smith's Figure 8, From a Basement on a Hill, and XO albums. Right now, Fiona Apple's cover of Elvis Costello's "I Want You," which is the most glorious epic, soulful thing in the world.
Who are the musics in your neighborhood?
posted by Spencer at 9:50 AM
3 Comments:
I listen to music all the time when I write, and try to as much as I can other times as well, even though I'm no huge music aficionado and my wife constantly makes fun of my taste in music.
I've never tried tailoring my listening to specific passages before, and have more often just put what I'm currently into on a playlist and run with it. Of course, sometimes I have to stop and skip a song or whatever because I don't want to hear it right then and instinctively I'm longing for something else.
Add to that the fact that my hard drive crashed out last month I still have yet to recover all the 9 gigs of music we had. There's a lot of "classic" stuff that I'd like to re-get but just haven't had the desire to listen to right now. Annoyingly, this puts me in a bit of a music malaise right now, lifted only by "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning" because of the Watchmen trailer and because I rightly missed it in "Batman & Robin."
And, of course, Happy Belated Birthday
Brandi Carlile is the best ever.
I wish I could listen to music when I write but I find it too distracting. I think I'd go for something gentle like the cold war kids, gotye, modest mouse, augie march, nick cave, and bat for lashes
Radiohead's not bad
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