Ok, this is really weird. I haven't really felt like there was anything gluing my musical taste together. I thought I was just kind of floating aimlessly between disconnected ideas.

Apparently, I was wrong. Pink Floyd, or more specifically, Syd Barrett is the glue that holds it all together. I found this out via dredg.com, where they noted that they'd just contributed a cover to Like Black Holes In The Sky: The Tribute To Syd Barrett. Looked it up on amazon, and here's what I see:

* Kylesa, who I just saw open for Pinback a couple weeks ago
* Intronaut, who I saw in August, and just recently picked up their album
* Stinking Lizaveta, who opened for Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's album release party last year
* Jarboe, who's been involved with Jesu and Neurosis of late.
* Yakuza, chicago sax metal band that I first tweaked to at a bar near my first apartment
* dredg, obviously, who's been my favorite band for the better part of this decade, who I'm seeing on tuesday

This shouldn't be a huge surprise, my dad raised me on Floyd, albeit from Wish You Were Here to Roger Waters' departure. Nonetheless, it's a bit disconcerting to see so many unrelated bands that I've been impressed by this year, on the same tribute album, completely out of the blue.