Power Corrupts (or: please, let me highlight the fnords for you)

[active_apathy]

It's amazing how much you can miss something that's only very, very rarely useful, but I feel weirdly satisfied about having just been able to edit a comment so that no-one would ever know that I somehow misspelt 'therein'. When absolute power is mine following the zombie apocalypse, I'll have my secret police go through and exterminate all my typos like that - though under careful watch, lest they try to alter my words to suit their own nefarious purposes.

(Of course, this all rather ruins the effect, but still. Comment editing! Icons! Oh yes indeed, the icons. When absolute power is mine following the zombie apocalypse, I shall have precisely so many icon spaces as I could ever desire. Otherwise, I have mentioned the secret police, yes?)

...it's rather possible I need extensive professional help.





Also! As an alternative to spamming your flists with a second post I'll just do this here, since I've been meaning to borrow the idea from laurenmitchell for a few days now. So.

Recommend some music! Don't worry about trying to divine my musical tastes; just suggest something. I'll try pretty much anything, so. Suggestions. Many. Here. Please?

(And if there's something that's particularly good, or representative of a band or artist or such, please do point that out as well. It'd be much better than accidentally basing my opinion of an artist on, say, a bootleg recording of a live performance of a B-side that sounds like it was recorded inside a watermelon.)

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[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

So, some of my favourite artists and my favourite songs by said artists to give you a starting point for music hunting.

Regina Spektor: 'Fidelity' and 'On the Radio'
Ben Lee: 'Catch My Disease'
Evanescence: 'Call Me When You're Sober'
Seanan McGuire (cadhla): 'Sycamore Tree', 'Still Catch the Tide', and 'Earthquake Weather' (samples available on her website)
Live: 'Meltdown', 'Run to the Water', 'Night of Nights', 'Sofia', 'Get Ready', 'Selling the Drama', 'Insomnia and the Hole in the Universe', and in fact pretty much anything by Live
Shawn Colvin: 'Polaroids', 'A Matter of Minutes', 'Fill Me Up', 'Sunny Came Home'
Powderfinger: 'Up and Down and Back Again', 'Drifting Further Away', and 'Lost and Running'
Evanescence: 'Lose Control', 'Call Me When You're Sober', and 'Anywhere'
Hoodoo Gurus: 'Come Anytime'

Also, a couple that are single songs and I haven't (yet) gone looking for anything else by the same artist:
Bright Eyes, 'Bowl of Oranges'
Michael Franti and Spearhead, 'East to the West'
Dido, 'White Flag'
Wendy Rule, 'Hecate'
Kisschasy, 'Reminder'