purplecthulhu

Many people have commented on the apparent non-randomness of the random tune selection on an iPod. I'm sure its all just the misfiring of our over-developed pattern recognition systems, finding tigers in the bushes when there's nothing there just to be on the safe side, but anyway...

Yesterday, on the way in to work, iTunes served up a Mike Oldfield album which I thought was The Songs of Distant Earth but turned out not to be. I thought it would be nice to hear Songs again, especially with the Clarkian connection, but thought nothing else of it.

Then on the way home from work, after a few other tracks, what pops up, but The Songs of Distant Earth. That's good, I thought, and headed home.

This morning I got onto the tube and started reading Charlie Stross' The Atrocity Archives, a tale of Cthulhoid mahcinations and the British Secret Service in the style of Deighton (Harry Palmer vs. the Great Old Ones). And what should start up on my iPod at that same moment?

Down to Dunwich, by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, probably the only Canadian Cthulhu rock band in existance, and the creators of such inimitable classics as The Sounds of Tindalos, The Innsmouth Look and Shoggoths Away!.

Its almost enough to make one a conspiracy theorist...