Where Has All The Music Gone? Yippeeyo, yippeyay!

I've been mightly productive recently. I made wine glass cozies (for carrying glasses at wine festivals - from scratch!), made a purse-proof cover for my pocket calendar, fixed a journal, glued objects back together at work, reset the shop floor (a highly creative exercise in display), and cooked a whole lot - all since Friday.

I'm cooking a LOT more recently, as I move much more fully now from processed to whole foods for consumption. And I'm cooking food to take to work for lunch. So today, I made salmon salad for lunches, crispy coconut sprinkles (natural sweets!), beet kvass (don't ask), zucchini herb bread (cooling off on the counter now...) and oh yeah, lunch and dinner. I refuse to wash another dish today!!!

...I'm discovering, however, that I really enjoy working in the kitchen provided I have on my mood music. I no longer own the house (i.e. I happily share it with my favorite lover lol) so I no longer have music blasting 24-7 in all rooms at all hours - and haven't for a few years now. But I just can't get in the zone in the kitchen without outside help. Long as the music is on, I can work in there for hours at a time, happy as a clam - and I get in my music time at the same time.

Musically lacking Unfortunately, though, I find that all my 12-year-old CDs are now tired -- I play CD after CD, song after song, looking for the sound and vibe that "hits the spot", that washes over me like cool clean water on a hot day. I don't want to buy any more CD's - I'd prefer to download them - but I don't have the thing yet that lets me play music from my laptop on the stereo, and won't for a while. Hmmm.... But I can download and burn to CD, and listen to those! There's an idea!

I just gotta find that great new sound to sink my soul into. I really like what I've heard from Jet and The Raconteurs. Beyonce is always amazing. I love the new one out from Panic! At The Disco ("I Write Sins Not Tragedies")- this song will be emblematic of this time, I think, intelligent angst for today's youth, and damn catchy. But someone please tell me - when did goth go mainstream???