Crisp November

The first day of November. The tricks and treats are all out of everyone’s system, and the whole country wakes up with a sort of refreshed sobriety. Time to move forward, back to the real world; the time for carving pumpkins and telling ghost stories is over.

Fall is in full swing with the crisp air and whatever colorful leaves remain on the trees. The sky looks somehow bluer, what with the shifting of the planet on its axis. The days continue to grow shorter. And there’s the faintest scent of Christmas upwind, in the back of everyone’s mind. But first: a brief intermission from commercial holidays.

For whatever reasons, the following music enhances my “November” sensation, and is thus my playlist for the week:

The Time Machine (Klaus Badelt)
The Prince of Egypt (Hans Zimmer)
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (John Williams)
Final Fantasy VII (Nobuo Uematsu)
Chrono Trigger (Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu)
Dragonheart (Randy Edelman)
The Merry Sisters of Fate (Lunasa)
Redwood (Lunasa)
Treasure Planet (James Newton Howard)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Harry Gregson-Williams)