What I currently look like in my own mind

...I.E., what I've been listening to lately. I've been telling everyone I know about the details of this, because I consider the selections listed below slightly incongruous at times - this makes me feel intelligent.

For the most part, it's been free jazz this, free jazz that. Fab and I had a free jazz night the other night - including back-to-back Interstellar Space intake. It was a mind-altering experience. When I put free jazz on, one of two things can happen;
a) If I concentrate on the music, I get sleepy.
b) If I just let it play in the background, I am very awake and aware, but not in a nervous way. It's a great tool for doing homework.

Now, what's a music genre that's ridiculously far away from free jazz? Power pop! The other part of my music intake is pretty much all Fountains of Wayne's Utopia Parkway. GOT to love those embarrassing rock lyrics and buckets of hooks. I decided today to write down twenty songs that I've listened to extensively of late. Well, I went one over.

Jazz:
Leo - Written by Coltrane, on both versions of Interstellar Space.
Saturn - As above.
Ghosts - Albert Ayler Trio.
Mr. PC - Written by Coltrane, but I really like David Murray's version.
(Eric Dolphy:)
Come Sunday
Burning Spear
Out There
Serene
Straight up and down

Pop:
St. Elmo's fire - Fripp and Eno....Well, it's probably always gonna be there. It's my favourite guitar solo.
(Swans:)
Eyes of nature
Miracle of love
Love will save you
(Fountains of Wayne:)
Denise
The Valley of malls
Troubled times
Amity Gardens
Lost in space
(Youth Group:)
Someone else's dream
Skeleton jar

And to top it off, I must add:
Walking with a ghost - Tegan & Sara!!

Obviously, delving suddenly into the uncharted realm of free jazz has created a need for the hooky songs mentioned above (with the exception of Swans - their position on the list is clearly just to make it harder for me to make my point - what is my point again?). We could also divide the list based on things that are more specific so that it could be analyzed further, with the intention of drawing parallels between free jazz and power pop. For instance, we could inject the header "Songs that involve ghosts", and its contents would include only Albert Ayler's "Ghosts" and Tegan & Sara's "Walking with a ghost". We would then send these specimens into the lab to be tested for similarities. How many could you find? Well, I'm saving to rent the lab.
Anyways, Liam's back from Europe, and Fab and I had a picnic with him the other day.