Gary Jules - "Mad World" clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
original clip, where children make figures on the sidewalk. Wonderful.

Lupe Fiasco vs Bill O'Reilly

I cannot say I have heard any of the rapsongs by Lupe Fiasco. From the short clips they showed, I don't think I would care much for them. And yes, that is solely based on the *music*, not on the words. Rap isn't my music. Live with it.

But to see him in an interview with Bill O'Reilly, and smashing the latter, now that, sir, I call a classic.

Tip of the hat, as Colbert would have it.

Dolly Parton - "The Bargain Store"

I don't know what it is about this song, but I love it.

Catatonia - misc

Since I am on a Tom Jones' spree since "Chill & Fever", I listened to Space's "Ballad of Tom Jones", and so happened to come across Catatonia, the band of Cerys Matthews who does guest vocals on Space's album.

Good enough, the same distinct use of her voice.

• Bulimic Beats - strange

Eleni Mandell - "Pauline" (Thrill)

Pauline

More than a memory girl

It's good to mishear commas at times.

On Marianne Faithfull channel. Strange song.

dEUS - "Following Sea"

Wonderful album.

• Quatre Mains - french, fast
• Hidden Wounds - Like Eels' Novocaine for the Soul, probably caused by the parlando. Intense lyrics.

Tyler the Creator - "Yonkers"

Weird angry videoclip, black and white, fading and blurring.

Tom Jones - "Chills And Fever" (1964)

Damn catchy song! Swoooongggg

dEUS - "Fire UP the Google Beast Algorithm" (Following Sea)

amazing song. I have to transcribe the lyrics.

Liszt - "Héroïde funèbre"

majestic, dark. Not as sweeping as I would secretly demand from such a piece, but still.

Amanda Palmer - "Billy Jean"

for the record, I hate live recordings of the iPhone variety.

This deserves an exception.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTaI7pu-6ps

Ayize Jama-Everett - "The Liminal People"

It felt like a badly written X-Men novel. The prose just couldn't grab me and at times it was way too explicit. Not in a sexual sense, but the horrible reverse of "show, don't tell"

Finished it quickly and couldn't care much for the characters.

William S. Burroughs - quotes

(from Break Through in Grey Room and other audio recordings)

Of course you have peace of mind. Your mind is a mental cemetary.

If you cut up the present, the future leaks out.

U.N.K.L.E. - "Beautiful Burnout"

I keep forgetting how much I love this song.

Road trip music in a long long night.

U2 - "The Joshua Tree"

This tape has been running circles in Ursula for quite some time now. Amazing roadtrip music. "Outside is America... outside is America...!"

(this is obviously not "The Unforgettable Fire"... geez)

Arcade Fire - "Suburbs"

Never really listened to their album "Suburbs".

It's not as impressive as "Funeral", but has for sure some interesting songs. Must listen again.

* Sprawl I (Flatland) - sad... let's take a drive.. through the sprawl...

Boy Robot - "Live In Vanilla" (Rotten Cocktails)

Long spinned electronic scapes, not the slow atmospheric kind but faster, tingy-er.

RJD2 - "Weather People" (In Rare Form)

moody, with a distinct "Tubular Bells" feeling to it. (am I now pissing people of?)