Bluevervain passes along (or actually, invents, I think), this meme. Exercise, really.
1) Think of a type of story you want to tell.
2) Choose an album to mine for ideas.
3) Listen to the album and try to pull an idea from each track; a character, a color, a setting, something that you want to see happen, a mood, anything.
I've been noshing on a fantasy story (the sort I mean when I say things like "It doesn't seem right that I'm not writing any books about elves") lately. Something that harks back to my days as an RPG player. Something with the scope and depth of an Amber Diceless game. If I were going to write something like that, I would totally want to mine The Tea Party's Edge of Twilight.
I think I'll end up doing this exercise a couple times soon, but I probably won't publish the results. It was too cool an idea not to share, though.