Writuals for Writing:

scents, sounds, objects - to help get into the zone

#1 music

usually play one album all day
sometimes play a second or third even by the same composer or artist
this week i am obsessively playing the following:

- Angelo Badalamenti Soundtracks
------- Twin Peaks (1990)
------- Mulholland Drive (1996)

- Anour Braham Trio

- The Idan Raichel Project - Within My Walls
- The Idan Raichel Project - The Idan Raichel Project
- The Idan Raichel Project - Exclusive Downloads

- Fennesz - Black Sea

- Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra
- Harold Budd, Ruben Garcia, Daniel Lentz (1993 ) - Music For 3 Pianos
- Harold Budd & John Fox - Transclucent Drift Music

Mikis Theodorakis - Mikres Kiklades - songcycle

- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Proposition (2005)
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

- silvio rodriguez
------- Dias y Flores (1975)
- ------ Te Doy Una Cancion (1975)

- Sugar Minott - Sweeter Than Sugar (1980)
- Sugar Minott - Sufferers' Choice
- Sugar Minott - Ghetto-ology + Dub
- Sugar Minott - Black Roots

#2 scents

- Nag Champa incense
- oil blends from Goulds Homeopathic Pharmacy in Hobart (they do mail order) - their "study blend" is a mix of rosemary, grapefruit, bergamot, peppermint & basil

#3 visuals

- flowers by the computer - today it is wild flowers, and small rosebuds, and geranium

#4 mindless entertainment at lunchtime

this week it is Dollhouse (dumb baby show-but useful not to watch anything really engaging at lunchtime to resist temptation to take rest of the afternoon off)

#5 escapist entertainment when i knock off

the past 2 weeks it has been Season 2 of Terminator - the Sarah Connor Chronicles
i am devastated the series has finished, and probably won't be renewed
am d/ling the Terminator Trilogy as a small comfort