"healthy" 14 yo girl dies because of Mexican Flu (pig flu)

So.

It's began.

Kraftwerk - "Minimum - Maximum"

on BBC 4.

Even on a small screen, it's fucking amazing. Not much light in the room and the stroboscopes hammer through the room. Musick.... nonstop......

Radio...activity.......

They fucking rule. I want to see them live again. Alone please.

Charles Bukowski - "16-bit Intel 8088 chip"

with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.

ain't that the damn truth

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - misc

Thought I brought OST of "The Proposition" with me, but it seems I didn't. Did copy a "misc" OST-ish collection of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis though, featuring songs from "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford", the "Bunny Munroe" soundtrack, and other recordings, such as an acoustic version of "Jesus of the Moon" from the "Dig! Lazarus! Dig!!!" album.

Added that album to my playlist as well, it's much harder, and I realise I hardly know it.

"Song For Charly", on the OST of "The Assassination..." beautiful mate... candidate for iFuneral?

Some of those "The Assassination..." songs remind me strongly of Firefly's score which, according to IMDB, are done by a certain Greg Edmonson. Doesn't ring a bell.

"No pussy blues": excellent for a fucked up friday-afternoon.

coding crap

nothing beats SSH coding with the 3rd glass of alcohol, "Dark Knight OST" on headphones.

Yet, is this what I want? Why this? Why coding? Why IT? Why serious?

Am I too lazy to quit, or too scared.

Bloody hell.

Danger Mouse ft. Sparklehorse - "Dark night of the soul" - cont'd

Just reread previous post about it, but I have to revise. What was I doing when I wrote that, and where was I?

Working on an October night, it absolutely captivates me. True enough, not every song, but the title track, and "Pain" featuring Iggy Pop... yes, those do, those absolutely do.

Have been listening to DJ Shadow today while writing "poste restante". Might have something to do with it.

(Ok, that "Jaykubb" with a certain Jason Lyttle... don't like it)

Or the catchy "Little Girl" (you / twisted little girl), feat. Julian Casablancas. "Grain Augury" feat Vic Chestnutt... but now I can't remember why he sounds so familiar. ("famous" singer-songwriter, spotted by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe... uh, ok. Still, I do know the guy's name)

DJ Shadow - "Private Press"

Old recordings, scratches of tired tape.

Slow beat, a guitar, two. One.

Samples resampled. Faster. Lovage.

It's only monday... 

Klaus Schulze, Pete Namlook, Bill Laswell - "Dark Side of the Moog"

Still a wonderful piece of music. As haunting as much of Schulze's work, yet at times more techno-ish, more ambient house style.

It seems there are already 7 albums! Must look around. Saw track titles of #7, all numbered "Psychadelic Breakfast #.." Isn't that a Pink Floyd song as well?

Chris Rea - "The Very Best Of"

Yes, well, one need some kind of music and why not give the old man a try again!

And admit, otherwise I would' ve missed the "sometimes it seems this body's a mind of its own" in "Auberge". Or "Driving home for Christmas" in October...

Scarlett Thomas - "The End of Mr. Y"

Mr. Y's search for the fair-ground doctor: the reader's search for the writer.

his experience after drinking the fluid, sharing another man's soul: reading a book "becoming" the protagonist?

thought is matter. Splendid little philosophical ideas and discussions which don't wander off into too intricate details, but leave you wondering and thinking. The philosophical stories and conundrums are real (problems) for the characters, which makes sense again that by thought, behaviour and matter can "change", or rather, start to exist while it might have been unformulated before.

From story-writing point of view; small real-world examples (objects, small deeds people do) tend to illustrate the grander thoughts and ideas of the story.

the computer program's thought-experiment: little simulated characters becoming conscious. their thoughts (binary, 0, 1) and their matter (binary, 0, 1) are alike. they can change by thinking, yet do not have ultimate power.

the love for stories and books in this book is almost tactile. 

A wonderful story which gripped and intrigued. The protagonist sounded almost demure at times, yet had an overwhelming array of knowledge which kept whispering questions and wondering about so many things we never even think about.

9

VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theatre

Nine Inch Nails-ish. Less aggressive, or rather, more subdued. Choirs.

Pretty When You Cry:

i didn't want to fuck you baby
i didn't want to fuck you
i didn't want to fuck you
but you're pretty
when you're mine
i didn't really love you baby
i didn't really love you
i didn't really love you
but i'm pretty when i lie

Robert Frost - "Acquainted With the Night"

I have been one acquainted with the night. 
I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. 
I have outwalked the furthest city light. 
I have looked down the saddest city lane. 
I have passed by the watchman on his beat 
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. 
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet 
When far away an interrupted cry 
Came over houses from another street, 
But not to call me back or say good-by; 
And further still at an unearthly height 
One luminary clock against the sky 
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. 
I have been one acquainted with the night. 

Louis MacNeice - "Autumn Journal"

(snippets)
Note
Nor am I attempting to offer what so many people now demand from poets - a final verdict or a balanced judgement. It is the nature of the poem to be neither final nor balanced. I have certain beliefs whiich I hope emerge in the cause of it but which I have refused to abstract from their context. For this reason I shall probably be called a trimmer by some and a sentimental extremist bij others. ut poetry in my opinion must be honest before anything else and I refuse to be "objective" or clear-cut at the cost of honesty


i

And I am in the train too now and summer is going
   South as I go north
Bound for the dead leaves falling, the burning bonfire,
   The dying that brings forth
The harder life, revealing the trees' girders,
   The frost that kills the germs of laissez-faire


ii

Only the spider spinning out his reams
   Of colourless thread says Only there are always
Interlopers, dreams,
   Who let no dead dog lie nor death be final
Suggesting, while he spins, that to-morrow will outweigh
   To-night, that Becoming is a match for Being,
That To-morrow is also a day,


iv

September has come and I wake

So I am glad
   That life contains her with her moods and moments
More shifting and more transient than I had
   Yet thought of as being integral to beauty;


ix

October comes with rain whipping around the ankles
   in waves of white at night

xiii
So blow the bugles over the metaphysicians,
   Let the pure mind return to the Pure Mind;
I must be content to remain in the world of Appearance
   And sit on the mere appearance of a behind.
But in case you should think my education was wasted
   I hasten to explain
That having once been to the University of Oxford
   You can never really again
Believe anything that anyone says and that of course is an asset
   In a world like ours;
One should not gulp one's port but as it isn't
   Port, I'll gulp it if I want to gulp
But probably I'll just enjoy the colour
   And pour it down the sink
Good-bye now, Plato and Hegel,
   The shop is closing down;
They don't want any philosopher-kings in England,
   There ain't no universals in this man's town

Sparklehorse - "it's a wonderful life"

Soft slow singing, sadness in the lazy changes of melody.

A piano finds its way across the heartbeat.

An angry track, a growling rhythm.

Sia - "Taken For Granted"

Wrote about Sia before. Heard "Blow It All Away" last night on LushFM (a SomaFM channel). Liked it.

Listening to the "Healing Is Difficult" album again, and know now for sure: I simply don't like most songs. Definitely not my style.

"Taken For Granted" though, is catchy. Should listen to the other two albums ("Colour the Small One" and "Some People Have Real Problems") and simply keep the songs I like.

Ain't I the craziest.

update

so now we've got

• "Breathe Me"
• "Blow It All Away"
• "Untitled"
• "Taken For Granted"
• "Sunday"
• "Moon"
• "I Go To Sleep" (not a bad cover) (uh, I lied, that one is gone as well now. Oh well, that's how it goes)
• "Electric Bird"
• "Soon We'll Be Found" (oh wait, I do have "I Go To Sleep"...  all in all "Some People Have Real Problems" is overall a much more enjoyable album in my opinion)
• "Academia" (see, told you so, this album is better than the other 2!)
• "Lentil"

the Antlers - "Atrophy" (Hospice)

(X-Rated). Soft-voiced. Almost singer-songwriter. But a dark edge.

Variant - A Silent Storm

Heard on X-Rated again. Reminded me of... what? Leftfield? Africa Bambaata?

Beats and strings, with sung and almost shouted lyrics

Parca Pace - Raumspannung

Obviously from X-Rated; dark, slow beats, sharp tones, scratching violins and strange sounds of people who are fighting softly in the background. I wonder if you would hear the latter when you weren't listening with headphones on.

Good writing music.

Wild Beasts - "All The King's Men"

I only remember the comparison with Arcade Fire when I first heard this song on the radio, a couple of days ago. It is an entirely correct one.

Their voices in unison, archaic monk-prayer style, combined with a catchy melody & rhythm.

Something to keep in mind.

10CC - "I Wanna Rule The World"

From the album "How Dare You", 1976. A wonderful silly song from which a snippet is used at the start of every hour of VPRO's "Marathon Interview"