Friday 11 June 2004

Pic of the day: It's me, or rather my character Winterlord, to the right, and I'm ready to go, ready to show that I'll never let you down! (Screenshot from City or Heroes.)

It's me, definitely

I proudly present my latest fad: Listening to CDs. These are overwhelmingly older CDs; so far I have ordered only one single from Japan (Mou Sukoshi ... Mou Sukoshi ... by Atsumi Saori) and will buy one single locally, Everything by North American artist Alanis Morissette. But I have a couple hundred CDs, at least, from the time I used to buy several CDs a month. While there are a few I won't touch anymore, and a few I know by heart, there are also some I listen to with interest.

Most of the actual listening takes place at work, where I have a separate office. At home I have City or Heroes, as well as some unwatched anime, so not much listening here.

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A substantial part of my collection is love songs. I have always found the line between love songs and hymns to be blurry at best. But even so, I notice that it makes a real difference to some songs that I no longer have a girl I can love (even in the platonic sense as a best friend). Some of the songs are like closed doors to me now. They simply become too abstract for me to understand with the heart, even though I understand them with my head.

And of course, there are other things which also influence the experience. Most notably, I was listening to one of my favorite songs by Chris De Burgh, one which I have given a glowing review in these very pages: It's Me (and I'm Ready to Go). As I came to the chorus
It's me!
and I'm ready to go,
ready to show
that I'll never let you down;
and I want you to know
that this power will grow
every day, every beat of my heart...
I suddenly had this flashback to a recent mission in City of Heroes, and I was like, yeah I could barely take out one level 16 Eidolon, but just wait one more level and I will have Invincibility. And I want you to know that this power will grow every day until I reach level 50...

And on that note, I am off to play City of Heroes!