It's often I think the music I listen to isn't well known (sometimes it very much is though). It always makes me happy to find a fellow soul who likes what I do, especially the stuff that I would consider obscure. I'm gonna list some albums that I have yet to find others who enjoy them as much as I do (that I haven't introduced the albums to in the first place).

snd - Tender Love
Asa-Chang & Junray - Jun Ray Song Chang
Manitoba - Up In Flames
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
Triple R - Friends
Susumu Yokota - Grinning Cat

ok, I know of others who enjoy these, but mainly because I introduced the music to them. I guess I feel like these are more like private discoveries than anything else, as if I had turned the corner while on a walk and happened onto a secret garden I could spend the rest of my life in.

As I'm looking over the list I notice these themes: minimalism, odd juxtapositions of sounds, and prettiness. And I know with snd, Asa-Chung & Junray, and Susumu Yokota, I could very easily imagine myself creating this type of music. Shit, you know what I just realized? Those themes are very Buddhist-centric. Perhaps not as far Zen as John Cage's ideals are, but they lean towards that. An affirmative reflection of life. Positive heady analysis of the world around you. That is my goal, that is what drives me. It's an introvert's position to believe that the act of reflection in itself is good, and I tend to apply that to art. The most profound art makes you reconsider, reevaluate, and reexamine.