My "music life" has been gratifying and growing lately. I am madly in love with Arcade Fire and can't get enough of them. I see that they're playing at a concert event in NYC Sept. 14-17. Their cd "Funeral" is with me at all times and I usually listen to it at least once per day. It't part of me now and I use it when I want to go to my happy place. I've also gotten a crush on Death Cab for Cutie. I've been listening to them on a Spin sampler and my new Six Feet Under soundtrack which was recommended to me by my new, best online friend, Mike. (Not to be confused with my old friend, Mike S.) We both really like Transatlanticism, he downloaded it the same week I bought it. I really need to discuss a cd called Different Names for the Same Things that I got, but I don't have it here with me so I will do that later. It's Excellent. The SFU Sndtrk is also Excellent, especially a track called Breathe Me by Sia. I tried to watch the first seven episodes of the HBO show but my week was too busy. Mike had told me that they finish every episode with a song and that a lot of the music is really good. From what I listened to on the sndtrk (vol. 2), I have to agree. I will need to check out volume 1 when I can. My fondness for Cold Play has grown. I was not terribly impressed with them at first listen but I'd been hearing that they'd been touted as the next U2 and imagine I was expecting too much. While I like them better now, in fact much better, I hardly see them right up there beside Bono & Co. While I'm sitting here I'm listening to some old Love and Rockets (Sweet F.A.) and liking it a lot. We went to a flea market today that was part of a Labor Day celebration and I bought a bunch of cds, real cheap. I picked up the Romeo and Juliet Sndtrk, Totally Wired (compilation including Romeo Void, Lords of the New Church, Slits, Joy Division and The Fall. The others I never heard), a Dance Hits cd with The Hustle on it :-) and The Spin Doctors' Pocket Full of Kryptonite which I listened to for about 4 tracks and decided not to keep. My friend Mike and I discuss music a lot during our on-line chats. We enjoy a lot of the same music with only a few exceptions. For one, I'm not able to sell him on Paul W. and he's liking the Tragically Hip. I listened to a couple of their songs and couldn't get past the lead singer's voice. But he's gotten me interested in Rush, a band I haven't heard since high school and never really appreciated then. I still love their sound tho' and they have some excellent lyrics that I never really listened to. I'm really liking a band called Embrace. Two of their songs I love: Ashes which Rude Cactus posted on his audioblog and another song Gravity which is on the cd I bought, along with Ashes. Ashes is a great drive-fast-on-a-hot-day-with-all-the-windows-down kind of song. (Have since found out that Gravity was written by Chris Martin of Cold Play). Lately listening to: Secret Garden- Bruce Springsteen Slave to Love- Bryan Ferry Gorgeous- Gene Loves Jezebel Cure for Pain- Morphine Breathe Me- Sia Arc of Time- Bright Eyes Cold Wind- Arcade Fire and new favorite; Transatlanticism- Death Cab for Cutie Going to sign off for now and listen to some tunes.