Simon & Garfunkel - "Sound Of Silence" (Sounds Of Silence)

(I thought this'd be the very first Simon & Garfunkel post, but the labels suggest I've written about them before. And suggested by Pandora, nonetheless. This must be the only radiostation where Radiohead is preceeded by Simon & Garfunkel)

Heard this on headphones, never realised their voices were completely on different sides of the spectrum.

And the song still works. The music, the words. People (the ones I tend to hang out with) might sniff at it, but fuck it, it works.

Josh Garrells - "Love & War & The Sea In Between" (album)

Supposedly hardcore Christian, but when using his music as backgroundmusic during work, it's quite alright. Bit singer-songwriter, sometimes rap-ish, then again some violins and orchestra-stuff...

Innerpartysystem - "Don't Stop"

Pretty good (soft) techno, or electro.

Power.

Good morning!

Leftfield, Tin Hat Trio, War Of The Worlds... this is a good morning

Tin Hat - album "The Sad Machinery Of Spring"

• Daisy Bell - sad, melancholy
• Intractable - instrumental, slow minorkey jazz
• Old World - instrumental, melancholy, beautiful
• Dionysus - ok
• the Secret Fluid of Dusk - love the title!
• The Book - haunting bassline (think of "War Of The Worlds")
• Blind Paper Dragon - it'd probably be described as "playful", but it bordering on nervosity
• Janissary Band - very much like real jazz, don't like this, too random
• ...

Leftfield - "Open Up"

Burn Hollywood burn, taking down Tinseltown
Burn Hollywood burn, burn down to the ground
Burn Hollywood burn, burn holywood burn
Take down Tinseltown, burn down to the ground

Kelly Link - "Magic For Beginners"

Beats me where I ever found this pdf with many short stories of her, but they are amazing.

Each story paints a sad, slightly confused world. Every description makes you frown and feel sadly strange about it, and she doesn't try to make it nicer in any way.

Good change of present and past time.

Tin Hat - "Old World" (The Sad Machinery Of Spring)

Amazing song by the people who became the Tin Hat Trio (well, that's an educated assumption).

Instrumental, slow, melancholy and very, very melodious.

Must look into more of their stuff, though I wonder if it will start to rasp my nerves when I'd listen to a full album of theirs.

Justin Cronin - "The Passage"

Government attempt at changing a vampire-ish virus into a weapon (bunkerbuster) goes horribly wrong. Little girl survives the tests, changed forever.

Nice easy pulp stuff. No, not exactly pulp, but I read it very fast. Why are so often things so thoroughly explained? So many words, so little meaning. And showing off with technical details that don't matter, too bad.

But it's not badly written. Just so-so.

I like the Californian references. Reading about Flagstaff, AZ. American details like that.

Intacto (2001)

As always, a gripping and amazing story.

Everything makes sense, the scenery and mood of every scene is amazing.

Show, don't tell. And create a fantastic story.

Paul Auster - "Man In The Dark" (read by Paul Auster)

Gripping from the very beginning, skipping back and forth in time- and storylines, this was a success from the very first second.

I must admit that after the tale of the "man with no memory", who ahd to kill the writer in order to stop the war (great idea) I gradually lost a bit of interest. Whether this was due to the story being less interesting, or the difficulty of listening for 6 or 7 hours, I cannot tell.

But definitely worth while. Should read the book, couple of years from now.

Heather Graham - "The Island" (read by Joyce Bean)

Only heard about 15 minutes.

Didn't like the sentences (too much repetition, too obvious, too cliche), didn't like the reading too much.

Why continue with all 8 discs?