SunkenForest
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Joined: Jan. 2010 |
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Posted: Jan. 20 2010, 19:06 |
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| Quote | | Sunken Forest I love your name |
Thanks; I felt it appropriate for a reformed lurker. Although I've recently been somewhat semi-addicted to Millennium Bell (I'm still trying to work out why it's been stuck in my head so damn much in the past week - particularly that last 45 seconds of Pacha Mama where everything gets all epic), TSODE is the album with which I most identify.
I used to work in a library for a number of years that had a cluttered and cramped office behind the circulation desk, and every day I would lunch there while my best friend at the time did computer programming. The head librarian was one of the most interesting guys I've ever known, and he always stayed on the cutting edge of everything. I really looked up to him, and he unfortunately passed away recently, but he got involved in some sort of program where we would get CDs (most of them unlistenable). One such CD was Songs of Distant Earth - my first exposure to MO. My friend and I played it every day during lunch on this crappy, tinny-sounding CD boombox that distorted practically everything (which really killed anything resembling sound quality, but made "the chamber" sound pretty cool.)
By the end of the year, the CD was so tossed around and, shall we say, "well-loved" that the case wouldn't stay closed anymore, and the disk was more scratched than a hypersensitive dog with fleas.
I bought my own copy, but the sentimental value totally stays (I can't believe this was over a decade ago) - the only other thing that comes close is "Lake Constance" for different reasons, but "Constance" wouldn't make a very manly handle.
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