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Been listening to so many different types of music that I don’t always remember what I’ve got in which player. I preview stuff before I have Jon put it on my Rio player. Well, this morning I thought I had the new Tori Amos album, THE BEEKEEPER, in the player. So I put on my headset, and pushed play. I about blew me out of my socks. It wasn’t Tori Amos, it was Seether. I don’t know about you but when it’s early and I’m expecting one kind of music, and get something completely different, well, it was a little startling. Apparently, I’d switched discs late in the day and forgotten. My bad. I love Seether’s album, DISCLAIMER II, but it’s not first thing in the morning music. I like to ease into my day a little more gently than that. Mornings are usually Sarah McLachlan or Tori Amos, then I hit the Rio player which has most of the soundtrack from DAREDEVIL, and THE PUNISHER, as well as about half a dozen songs from the Seether album. I’m about to put the entire album on my player, except for maybe two songs. I’m also listening to a variety of other bands. For some reason the music that I write this Anita book best to, are harder than my usual fair. It’s one of the reasons that I’ve had trouble deciding what goes on the player. I keep thinking that the harder phase is just that a phase, but no, as I look at hitting two hundred pages, I think if I can find a big enough variety of music that harder is what’s going to see me through. Okay, it’s not black metal, but it’s harder than I usually work to. There’s a lot of music I like to listen to that doesn’t work for writing. No idea why.