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Found myself doing this earlier while reading J.G. Ballard's The Terminal Beach with Birchville Cat Motel's We Count these Prayers playing. i'd just begun "Terminal Beach" itself when i remembered that K.K. Null had released a CD under that title. couldn't resist switching the soundtrack to said album in mid-sentence (not that the BCM hadn't paired superbly with "The Illuminated Man" and "The Delta at Sunset") then caught myself wondering whether such attention to detail isn't a little, um, ... troubling?

what are ILM's thoughts on this compulsive practice?

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Monday, 17 March 2003 04:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I usually listen to classical or jazz while I'm reading. I hear those types of music can make you smarter, and I'm trying to double-up the effect.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 17 March 2003 05:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Check out Nufonia Must Fall by Kid Koala!

― Orange, Monday, 17 March 2003 09:57 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was reading Dorothy Allison's Cave Dweller I need to listen to Bob Dylan's back catalogue. Especially the earlier stuff. Or Carole King - Tapestry. Usually classic. Can't listen to exceptionally loud music, though. That is usually a big fat dud.

― S Samson, Monday, 17 March 2003 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't listen to Aphex's SAWII without remembering Alisdair Gray's "Five Letters from an Eastern Empire". They just seem to complement each other perfectly.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I like to listen to Avril Lavigne while I read Katy Keene comics.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

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