What did I do? Well, I slept, ran a few errands, went to the laundrette,
and tidied up the disks on my Linux box a bit. Not much creative or
exciting. Oh, and I made myself Afghani Chicken Enduring Freedom Chicken for dinner.
It also looks like I'm coming down with a slight case of existential angst again. (And I thought I left it behind forever; you'd think it'd be something like glandular fever, which only troubles you in adolescence, but no.) Reading about the absurdly premature death of Charlotte Coleman probably brought it to a head, as if underscoring the capriciousness and ultimate meaninglessness of fate and the universe, and the fleetingness of everything.
Urk. Stop me before I start listening to Depeche Mode again.
Hehe. Enduring Freedom Chicken. Very cool :). Hope you're feeling less angsty soon.
No, Morrissey is music for being lonely and unloved and sitting alone in your bedsit moping; it doesn't really cover the existential angle.
Radiohead, meanwhile, is less personal and more about the state of the world.
There you have it; a taxonomy of angst-related music.
Meanwhile, recent Cure (anything from the mid-90s or so onwards) is angst music about growing old and no longer feeling the angst of youth.
It could be worse, you could start listening to Morrisey.