I keep buying music I used to have (or trying to buy music I used to have only to discover it’s out of print or so obscure it’s never even made it to CD – but that’s another post) and feeding it t0 my iPod.

This album, Healing, I bought originally in high school. I used to live with my dad in Gresham, Oregon, and there was this room built inside his two-car garage out of 2x4s and plywood. That was my room. No windows. Dark as a tomb. I let my friends put graffiti on the walls with my extensive permanent marker collection. When I put an album on the stereo and turned out the lights, it was like being in one of those sensory deprivation tanks they have in Altered States. (Remember that movie? I fucking love that movie.)

The B side of this album (Healing I, II, and III) was really fun to listen to in the absolute darkness of my teenaged sanctuary. It’s like a guided meditation. I usually fell asleep listening to it. It’s really cool.

Mostly I re-purchased this album, though, for the track Shine. I love this track and decided yesterday I absolutely had to hear it. (Thank God for Amazon and 1-day shipping!) It’s your typical weird Todd track: exuberant, strangely engineered, wild, electronic, sweeping genius.

I like something positive once in awhile, too, and even though this track is a little more New Age-y than I’d typically like, it’s still an amazing and uplifiting performance. And the vocal during the outro is typical inspired Todd insanity.

Yes, I realize no one else will like it except other Todd-heads, and this matters to me not at all. Do leave your opinon in the comments, if you bother to listen to it.

Now, please excuse me while I go make a strawberry daquiri in my blender.