Somehow I'm always listening to Air's soundtrack to The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola's 2000 film based on Jeffrey Eugenides' novel. The book, film and soundtrack all captured something unnameable and pretty frightening. Horrifying, really. [Side note: the Latin horror has its root in 'veneration' or 'religious awe' -- the idea that something could be so powerful and/or inexplicably beautiful that it causes intense fright. Though, as I see it, not necessarily in a bad way, if that makes any sense.] It's kind of like looking in on this massive, gooey thing that's not quite of this planet, except when you get closer you can tell that all the ghostly little pieces that add up to the whole are pretty familiar.
Also the album artwork by Mike Mills (not the REM bassist, the other famous Mike Mills) might be my favorite ever.
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