Kirstin Hersh - "The Letter"

Can you hear me?
Don't forget that I'm alone when you're away
You make me act like other people do forgive me
Comfort me You comfort me You make me die
I'm gonna cry I won't go home
Don't kill the god of sadness
Just don't let her get you down
See the man inside this book I read can't handle his own head
So what the hell am I supposed to do ?
I wonder how he died
My hands are shaking don't you love me anymore
I only need a person, keep my shoulders
Stand around lie down move your hand above the floor
Gather me up because I'm lost
Or I'm back where I started from
I'm crawling on the floor rolling on the ground
I'm gonna cry you look for me

Jane Austen Argument - misc

* "Under The Rainbow" - sad, yet I don't like the wordless meanderings his voice picks up halfway through the song. Do really like the rest
* "Staying Single" - funny
* "Phoenix" - doesn't do much for me

Bill Bryson - "A Short History Of Nearly Everything"

Cool book, lots of facts, but more something you should not read in one go: too many factoids and stories jumbling together. This is not a fault of mr Bryson in my opinion, it is simply an overload of data.

• oxygen: used by white bloodcells to kill bacteria
  
• stromatolites: "living rock", emerged 3.5 billion years ago, still in existence today
  
• slime molds: single cell organisms when conditions are good. Group together into a slug when impoverished. Can become a plant, with a stalk and a fruiting body, full of spores for the single cell organisms
  
• opabinia: 5 eyes and snout with claws
  

16 Horsepower - "The Partisan"

pretty intense rendering of Leonard Cohen's classic.

Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman

amazing evening in L.A.. Her songs I've heard before, but his reading live always is amazing. They're fun to see live together, though I must wonder how much of it is a trick.

series "Once Upon A Time"

Snowwhite story with a twist: evil witch put a hex on fairyland and now everybody is living in a far worse world... ours. Without remembering anything... or don't they?

Graphically well done, though not quite original. Amusing story.

another misc music (preparing for Amanda Palmer)

Ronald Jenkees - "Clutter" (Ronald Jenkees)
Instrumental, slow heavy beat.

Ruckus Roboticus - "Never Play With Scratches" (Playing With Scratches)
Weird parlando dopey triphop.

Fiona Apple - "Sally's Song" (Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (Bonus Tracks Edition))"
beautiful

Rasputina - "If Your Kisses Can't Hold The Man You Love"
powerful, screeching violin and fast rhythm.

Lilly Allen - "Never Gonna Happen" (It's Not Me, It's You)
catchy

Vermillion Lies - "The Astronomer" (What's In The Box)
silly play on words, swinging, a violin, all very burlesque

Puppini Sisters - "Jilted" (The Rise & Fall Of Ruby Woo)
oldfashioned, funny, close-harmony

Amanda Palmer live at San Diego. 2100 to 0100! Amazing. Jane Austen Argument has some intriguing songs.