Being driven to your former cd collection and away from your iPod for logistical reasons provides grounds for interesting results. You come across amazing music you otherwise would have ignored. It's like being given a topic to write about versus being told to write about "anything", or like choosing among songs on an old Rockola jukebox with only a handful of jams versus a digital jukebox with every song imaginable; when driven into a corner, creativity thrives; when our options are limited, we are forced to think. Emilia Kabakov, wife of the acclaimed Soviet émigré artist Ilya Kabakov once said, "The only way to survive a depression is to start thinking again." 
This statement echoes behind the situations I have recently found myself in: Now that I have money I am inclined to blow it. However I can recall in the not-so-distant past how I had very little money and how my mind was forced to create. I started manipulating the world around me to fit my needs, to manifest my will to power. The results were interesting and inexpensive. 
I remember just over a month ago Banks and I decided to hit a show in San Bernardino. We were both broke and had no gas.Of course we were going to make it, we just didn't know how. We immediately began making phone calls, selling things, bartering others. 50 miles, one found ticket on the ground and some new friends later, we were in. I still don't know exactly how we got the gas to get there, how I got past the security guard, or how Banks found a golden ticket on the ground like Charlie did for the Chocolate Factory, but it happened. Had we been given $200 to blow on the night it would have been much more easy, and far less fun. Case in point, human beings cannot handle complete freedom. Or as Sartre says, "we are condemned to be free." Get creative.


noise, more:

Pure Morning - Placebo
Heart Cooks Brain - Modest Mouse
Tannhauser/Derive - Refused