The other day I posted about Five Artists I Love To Write To. Frankly it was hard to pick just five to feature, as I listen to a lot of music and love a lot of artists. So behind the cut is another five artists. Expect to see more posts introducing you to new music. 
Archive for January, 2012
Five Artists I Love To Write To
I am a big fan of writing to music. One of the first things I do with an idea is to make a playlist. Finding songs and putting them in a collection in order helps me organise characters and, more importantly, the plot. And once that is done listening to it can help get me back into the mood for that particular story.
While I listen to a lot of different bands/musicians while writing, depending on my mood and what I am writing, here are five artists I love to write to, and three of my favourite songs for each.
Opening the Windows
When my laptop died just over a year and a half ago, I made a plan: when I built my desktop I would use Linux until the new version of Windows came out (and I had saved up for it). But since I liked Ubuntu so much, I felt no need to do the whole dual-booting thing.
But given the recent-ish changes in Ubuntu (which I wasn’t exactly a fan of) plus the fact that I wanted to play games properly1 on my computer (which was why I built it so souped up in the first place!) I decided to give in and get Windows 7.
The install process went very smoothly and so far I really like what I am seeing. It’s taking a while to get used to things since I’ve never used 7 before (I went XP to several Ubuntu releases to 7) but it’s quite intuitive, for me anyway. It’s very nice to have programs back that I gave up when I stuck with Linux, although of course the trade-off is that I have lost programs that I grew to love on Linux.
But the big upside is I no longer have to whip out my netbook whenever I need to do something like download ebooks from the library or get files from the external harddrive. That got annoying real fast.
I haven’t made the decision of whether to dual-boot Ubuntu back onto Epic Comp. I’ll give Windows 7 a few more days just on its own to force me to get used to it and then decide. I’ve been iffy on Ubuntu ever since Natty/Oneiric went off in its new direction so I’m really going to give it a good hard think.
In the meantime, Windows users, would you like to educate me on some of your favourite programs/7 features and addons? It’s been a long time since I’ve looked for new Windows programs.
- Seriously. I skipped and jumped and juddered my way through the first two acts of Dead Island via Wine and that was enough to break me [↩]