Yesterday, it was Ministry. There's something about repetitive industrial white noise while you're working. It's like having noise-cancelling headphones: it blocks out all distractions without itself getting in the way:

Soon i discovered that this rock thing was true.
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil.
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet.
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world;
So there was only one thing that I could do:
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long.

Today, it's Tom Waits. I don't have as good an explanation for this, but that's alright: Waits is one of those people who just is, without needing explanation:

Will you sell me one of those if I shave my head?
Get me out of town is what fireball said.
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat,
Never drive a car when you're dead.

Back in Perth, it was The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy; but hell, it was 1999 and we were young and carefree.