Nerdy Music Pastimes.

I've been putting together a concept CD for my Sidereal character I expect to play in the upcoming Exalted game, both to get me in the right frame of mind before a game, and because it's been kind of a while since I've taken the time to really put together a mix CD that I really enjoy. Most of them had been real quick and dirty affairs - a rough collection of songs I wanted to listed to right at the moment without any real regard for flow. As I write this, I feel my eyes drawn to a pair of really old mix CDs that I occasionally still pull out. I'd compiled the songs in high school, more or less based on if I felt good or bad that day.

One was orange and the other purple - orange was ostensibly the feel-good CD, but most of the songs are pretty wistful - Incubus' Steller, Wish You Were Here, some tunes from BoA, Counting Crows Long December, Smashing Pumpkins' Here's to the Atom Bomb and 1979. The purple CD is mostly Deftones, Garbage, NIN, and Stabbing Westward. My chief feelings, looking back, were anger and a sense of wistful placidity. That's pretty clearly depression, there. But they hold up well, even if it reminds me of how young I was at the time.

It's an interesting exercise, so I might actually write more on it later.