### NaNoWriMo Soundtrack ##### Published: Friday, December 2nd 2005 During National Novel Writing Month, there were three primary computers that I worked on my novel on. My main Windows box, with OpenOffice.org, my iBook with Word and my "new" G4 Power Mac with Word as well. Honestly I liked the OpenOffice experience better than the Word experience. The word count is perpetually on the status bar of Word and it was there hurting your concentration, while in OpenOffice.org it was simply: ALT+T, W. Or some confusing stuff with the mouse. During November I was curious as to how my last.fm playlist would turn out during the month, alas what was the music that fueled the 50,000 word achievement. With last.fm I had a plugin for Winamp that allowed it to basically tell them what I was listening to. I'd have to say 90% of the novel as done on my Windows machine, at my desk, with the plugin installed. i failed to have plugins installed for both my iBook and G4 because both of these nodes were acquired during the month of November. Imagine getting two computers that you can't play with because you have to work on your novel. Or setup for that matter. When I got my iBook, I literally turned it on for the first time found a word processor and ran with it. National Novel Writing Month has definitely changed parts of me, or rather unlocked parts of me that I did not know existed. Its truly amazing, and despite that if and when it and if it was ever edited that only a small 30-35% of what was typed this first time would actually MAKE the finalized product, it truly showed me parts of myself that I hope to summon during the next year of my life. Back to the music.. I'm using last.fm's view of ones history by weeks, because apparently I cannot for the entire month. That is probably a paid-for service. Taking away the streaming music I listened to a lot during the month: Mostly Classical, Groove Salad, Secret Agent (Soma FM), and Ambient electronic (something forgot the name its under "ambient" in the SHOUTcast directory, chill-out ambient something or other) and also taking out the iPod ratio (which was the entire public typing method of music) here is what it was on the playlist. **WEEK ONE** *Oct 30 to Nov 6* - 1 Moby 106 - 2 David Byrne 41 - 3 植松伸夫 23 - 4 Nine Inch Nails 20 - 5 London Symphony Orchestra 19 - 6 Gorillaz 18 - 7 Junkie XL 16 - 8 Angelo Badalamenti 15 - 9 Kruder & Dorfmeister 13 - 10 Groove Armada 12 **WEEK TWO** *Nov 6 to Nov 13* - 1Moby 30 - 2 植松伸夫 22 - 3 Marilyn Manson 17 - 4 Enya 12 - 5 Junkie XL 11 - 6 Orbital10 - 7 RZA 9 - 8 Nine Inch Nails 7 - 9 David Byrne 4 - 10 Aphex Twin 3 - 10 Coldplay 3 - 10 Leftfield 3 - 10 KMFDM 3 - 10 Juno Reactor 3 **WEEK THREE** *Nov 13 to Nov 20* - 1 David Byrne 94 - 2 The Wallflowers 82 - 3 植松伸夫 69 - 4 Junkie XL 30 - 5 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony 21 - 6 Enya 14 - 7 David Holmes 10 - 8 Moby 7 - 9 Aphex Twin 6 - 9 Daft Punk 6 - 11 Nobuo Uematsu, Aki Kuroda 5 **WEEK FOUR** *Nov 20 to Nov 27* - 1 Marilyn Manson 32 - 2 Kronos Quartet 28 - 3 Daft Punk 19 - 4 David Byrne 12 - 5 Elliott Smith 9 - 5 The Wallflowers 9 - 7 David Holmes 7 - 8 John Digweed 5 - 9 Bedrock 4 - 9 NPR 4 - 9 Paul Oakenfold 4 **chord sounds** from the album "hotel:ambient.cd2" by [moby](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22moby%22)