Tori Amos - "I'm not in love"

I hate the original, but Tori Amos' version is slightly haunting.

Blanck Mass - "Hellion Earth"

Him of the Fuck Buttons - relisten to X-Rated 2009-12-27, first song of the first hour - made this.

Fuck Buttons - misc

(re?)discovered through X-Rated of 2009-12-27. Awesome electronic music, from landscapes to near noise.

"Surf Solar" reminds me of the Sunrise OST.

"Have yourself a merry little Christmas"

'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' Written during wartime it was always essentially a song about separation and the heightened awareness of this at Christmas time. But the original lyrics were considered so depressing that they have been tinkered with not once, but twice through their history, in an attempt to remove some of the more wrist-slashingly gloomy lines. For instance, did you know that the first version has the song opening like this - "Have yourself a merry little Christmas / It may be your last"? That’s right. In your face Santa! By the time Judy Garland sang it in Meet Me In St Louis that line had become "let your heart be light", which is somewhat perkier. Later still, Frank Sinatra requested that a little more melancholy be edited out, so "until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow" became "hang a shining star upon the highest bough". Nice try Frank. It still sounds sad.

http://thequietus.com/articles/10996-tracey-thorn-christmas-songs

levitationparty.de

while searching for playlists featuring some of the all time stars of X-Rated, came across the following

http://www.levitationparty.de/playlist-2-12-2011.htm

Should create some grooveshark playlists

Charles Baudelaire - "Les Fleures du mal"

Difficult to read. I enjoy the explanations right now more than the poems themselves.

Underworld - The Awakening

written by the same guy who directed and wrote part 1 and 2 (but NOT that horrible #3).

Pretty okay.

Underworld - Rise of the Lycans

Horrible. Flimsy story, worse film.

The Antlers - "Wake" (Hospice)

From X-Rated, 2009-12-27

A near a capella mix of holy mass and earthly words.