Mekanik Kantatik - "Everybody's gotta learn sometime"

Strange "trilling" version of Beck's song. Took me some time to recognize it. Nice.

levitationparty

 based upon the playlist of levitationparty.de after searching for X-Rated alike playlists

• Test Department with Brith Gof - "Truan yw Gennif Fi"
  Slow long soundscapes, with parlando medieval recital and singing.
  Good for writing?

The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004)

Room 1 - longing

impression of young boys at an academy in the north of Russia. Many abandoned by alcoholic parents, or fathers and mothers who fought in Chechny. Strict Russian routine. Judgements against the "Chechnyan terrorists"

Room 2 - breathing

Grozny, Chechny. Everything is black and white from now on. Children, no older than 5 or 7 years old, are taken away from their sick mother by a woman trying to rescue them. A broken city with Russian soldiers in Russian tanks.

Room 3 - remembering

Chechnyan orphans, watching the same documentary about Chechnyan terrorists who tried to blow up a building. A muslim ritual. Tears of a 19 year old girl and a 12 or 14 year old boy.


It is not a story, but an impression. As such, the three rooms seem random but true. Children of both sides watching the same news item chills the heart.

If there's anything this film does, it is sadness. Mankind is rude, cold, harsh, and will therefore always suffer, cry, long.


The horses are silently snorting
Hiding their bitterness
Their burning eyes reflect on my hands
Dancing flames of fire

Their big eyes
Are full of hate without words
And the flames just dance

Let the horse run free!
And set me free as well!
We two fly over the fields
Looking for happiness


Let the horse run free!
And set me free as well!
We two fly over the fields
Looking for happiness

(clapping of palms in the matter of horses running)

Song sung at the Russian Academy

Guilty Crown

After Lost Christmas, the First Apocalypse during which many people are infected with a virus, a boy, Shu, gets caught up with girl Inori of the terrorist cell Funeral Parlor who are fighting the United Nations (GHQ).

Later Shu is forced to fight Funeral Parlor's leader, Gai, who wants to create a new world in which selection and evolution are simultaneously imposed on everything and everybody. Gai needs to use Inori's body to resurrect Mana, the original Eve.

The second part (ep 12-22), which starts when many students and some former members of Funeral Parlor are trapped inside the "infested" zone, was by far better than the first half. Music-wise some interesting choices, with piano music reminiscent of Evangelion.

Sixto Rodriguez - "Rick folks hoax"

Catchy... and boinggg, it's Sixto "Sugarman" Rodriguez.

Heard on NovaPlanet

ten best radio stations outside of California

Well, at least one of them is sadly gone, but currently listening to the French Novaplanet, and with 45 seconds under my belt, I would give it the proverbial thumbs up if that only didn't sound too facebookesque.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/03/top_online_radio_stations.php

Accel World

The year is 2046. Haruyuki Arita is a young boy who finds himself on the lowest social rungs of his school. Ashamed of his miserable life, Haruyuki can only cope by indulging in virtual games. But that all changes when Kuroyukihime, the most popular girl in school, introduces him to a mysterious program called Brain Burst and a virtual reality called the Accel World.

Wonderful series. Made me all happy about anime agin.