12:24 PM
When the new Frontalot track came out Saturday morning, I decided it was time to burn a new CD to listen to in the car. The Front track would be on it, of course, but what else? I was too busy to spend much time on the project, so I just loaded up all my MP3s into Winamp, and fast-shuffled through them. Whenever I heard the opening bars of a song that struck my fancy, I added it to the burnlist. Within a few minutes, I had a full 21 tracks.

Now I've been listening to that CD for a few days and I'm a bit creeped out. As I listen to the songs and the lyrics, I'm a bit frightened by how much they reflect things currently ricocheting around in my head. The only explanation I have is that my subconscious decided it was time to externalize a bit and picked those songs as the vehicle.

It'll be interesting to try the process again in six months or so and see if it has similar results. Who knows--it could be a crazy new form of self-therapy.