Liner Notes

Editor’s Note & Diet Soundscape #1: Badly Drawn Boy’s The Shining

Ed Note:

Strange happenings are underfoot. The leaves rustle and by the time you figure out where the sound is coming from, you turn your head to see a shadow slipping away.

That shadow, in metaphorical and perhaps a little tenuous terms, is my work week in essence. Everyone of us has weeks like that, don’t we? We start the week off fine and by the time we get to Wednesday, we think it’s Tuesday and Thursday as Wednesday and the worst of them all: Thursday as Friday. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks for me and it doesn’t seem to be letting up. I had an epiphany the other day (by epiphany, I mean it’s probably in some drink-induced form) that instead of putting out shitty episodes of soundscapes week after week, I should just come up with a lite version that would buy me some time.

I don’t know why I’m coming up with a whole new monster instead of maybe working harder at the usual soundscapes but here it is: a diet soundscape soundbite where I try to describe snatches of moments I wouldn’t normally notice.

*Regular soundscape episode should return next week…

Travelling in a train looking out the window and watching all the big ass power structures resolutely holding up the colossal blue sky. The sun would be coming up at this point and as I fumble around for my sunglasses, Badly Drawn Boy’s The Shining would start to play. And the butterflies in my stomach would begin to settle down as I fidget a little and think: a smoke would be perfect right about now.