Scanner - "Delivery"

Did I actually ever listen to it, after copying? Probably heard it during a drunken X-Rated session and decided at that moment I had to have it.

Wonderful background music on a beautiful lonely saturday night. Volume too low to make out most of the voices (but reading Mitchell's "Black Swan Green" anyway) but the resulting auditive suggestions fit right in.

Dead Can Dance - "Into the labyrinth"

playing it for the upteenth time.

still beautiful.

I might favour this album because my love of the word "labyrinth" and the images it evokes.

"4 S"

Found while putting recordables into black booklet. Just those two characters scribbled quickly in red pencil.

I remember.

And I remember this is my own copy, since I liked the compilation. A look into my musical tastes of years hence.

1. Counting Crows - "Colourblind"
   [on the soundtrack of "Cruel Intentions", which makes me think of E,T. That befits the period in which I made this disc.]
2. K's Choice - "My heart"
3. Craig Armstrong - ...
   ["Romeo and Juliet" soundtrack, but I haven't heard it with movie-quotes for a very long time]
4. Current 93 - "Gothic lovesong"
5. Radiohead - "Street spirit (fade out)"
6. R.E.M. - "Nightswimming"
7. Alan Parson - "Old and wise"
8. Queen - "Is this the world we have created?"
9. Tori Amos - "Smells like teen spirit"
10. Soulwax - "When logics die"
11. Mark Knopfler - "A love idea"
12. K's Choice - "Winter"
    [I knew about artist separation, obviously]
13. Tori Amos - "Jackie's strength"
    [though not that much]
14. U2 - "October"
15. Alanis Morissette - "Uninvited"
16. Jacques Brêl - "Quand on a que l'amour"
17. Righteous Brothers - "Unchained melody"
    [haven't heard that one in aeons]
18. something-like-smashing-pumpkins-last-track-without-words
19. Jewel - "Foolish games"
20. Queen - "Those were the days of our lives"
    

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (#6)

A film like this should stun and flabbergast, mesmerize and lead beyond the places that are never imagined. In this, the sixth Harry Potter film failed.

The score wasn't impressive, though the eerie tingling harp throughout Harry and Ginny's moment in the Chamber of Requirements ("Kamer van Hoge Nood" in Dutch... oh dear oh dear, what was the translater thinking!)

Blood, the last vampire

Found in a small shop near Camden, London, this 45-minute anime features a little girl as the last "true vampire", not concerned with anything like civility, completely focussed on her goal of killing off mean beasties.

Not bad, but there wasn't a "wow" feeling. This is the middle sequence of a 3-part OVA, the only one which has been made, it seems. Can't say I found it truly sorry this did not continue, it didn't catch my attention and had some illogical steps in the story.

Director was animation director of Akira (1988)

Chronicles of Riddick - Dark fury

The 35-minute animation featuring the voices of Pitch Black actors (of which Vin Diesel is the only one worth mentioning), set between Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick. For me, the fact that it is directed by Peter Chung, of Aeon Flux and "Matriculated", was the main reason of buying it during a decadent London-weekendtrip.

The visuals didn't let me down, though the strange eerie feeling of Aeon Flux wasn't there. The 'hand of the master' was visible in all characters, but not in set-design, which basically was the futuristic-spaceship-style. Particularly the scene in which evil miss shows him her collection of frozen badass motherfuckers... they could've done more with that.

Story-wise, it didn't add anything. Mostly acknowledge that Richard B. Riddick is indeed a wellknown bad-ass. Oh, and he wins. Yay.

Should watch the extra's.

David Mitchell - "Black swan green"

Will it be as awesome as "Cloud Atlas"?

Shouldn't expect that much. In all honesty, the first 25 pages don't seem to indicate so, but there is a strangeness to the story.

Should try to dissect it while reading. Notice the style, the tricks, the ideas.