Parov Stelar - "Princess"

triphop, strings, looped vocal... cool!

• Milla's Dream - evocative
• Nobody's FOol (feat Cleo Panthe) - very poppy, catchy
• Silent Shuffle (feat Jerry Di) - jazzy, ring-a-ding!
• This Game (feat Anduze) - ugh, blerghy
• Requiem for Annie - piano, scratch effect, nice

Zorita - "Amor Y Muerte"

Accordeons, slowly increasing rhythms, life and death... Tom Waits, if he could sing a tad better and had more of a Spanish temperament.

Awesome.

• Weeping Willow (Waltz Macabre) - good start
• The Clyster of the World - fast, contains sex and cocaine so you know it's good
• Lost At Sea - "oh Amsterdam you're a bitch built on rotting poles". Ain't it so.
• Señor Presidente - trumpets, that special one, and in that particular minor chord
• Don't Forget To Breathe - dark, swampy
• Dance Me To The End Of Love - yes, the very one. In an E-powered roma version. 

Hunter S. Thompson - "Kingdom of Fear"

Amazing read of rants and columns. I keep being amazed by how much about politics he knows. And he says so: once you get sucked inside...

Dubravka Ugrešić - "Baba Yaga Laid an Egg"

The first few pages were amazing. Then it diverted from what I expected, and things became different.. but still good.

I think that honestly I wasn't much in the mood to enjoy it to its true depth. Particularly the last part, basically facts on Baba Yaga, could not hold my attention.

But still nice enough.

NTK

Have I never quoted NTK here before? 'tis about time...

"It's still the anti-changelog to our lives."

Shannon and the Clams - "I Wanna Go Home" and "Sleep Talk"

I can't find their latest albums "Dreams in the Rathouse" on grooveshark yet.

It's raw and very '60s, but much, much rough. More punk. More grunge.

Karsu - "Confessions"

Sleepy, nightclub, dreamy.

• Crime - swinging, about self-defense, somehow reminded me of Chicago
• Gesi Baglari - err... oh? Persian? nice
• Something on the Rocks - sad, hints of French chanson (Ne Me Quitte Pas, to be precise. It isn't, but there's strong hints.)
• Cok Uzaklarda - no idea what it's about, but maudlin and beautiful

Tarot - Virgo and her wish for death

(I have no idea how to tag this.)

The Hermit card is linked to Virgo, who has her own problems with the loneliness that perfection brings. The Virgo longs to be whole, unsullied by humanity. At some point, she will have to face the fact that the quest for perfection is a secret death wish. Being whole, being sealed and purified and perfect, soaked in bleach and boiled to sterility, is the opposite of life. To breathe is to sully oneself. It’s kind of the point.

hypocoristic

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990714

The word hypocoristic is not uncommon in linguistics. As an adjective, it means 'endearing, as a pet name or a diminutive'; as a noun, 'a hypocoristic form; a pet name or a diminutive'. The adjective is much more common.

 Hypocoristic forms are, as the definition says, generally either pet names, or nicknames, such as Harry for Henry or Betsy or Beth or Liz or about a zillion others for Elizabeth, or they are forms with some sort of diminutive element, such as the suffix -y/-ie, yielding such words as preppy (prep (school) + -y), kiddie, birdie, cutie, and the like.

Mo'Horizons - "Coming Home"

Wonderful compilation! At least, the first two songs are amazing.

In de Coming Home serie verschenen eerder compilaties die werden samengesteld door o.a. DJ Hell, Jazzanova en Nouvelle Vague. Deze nieuwe van Mo' Horizons is een aanwinst in de serie. Een mooie selectie tracks (voornamelijk soul, funk en jazz) en dat alles smaakvol achter elkaar gezet. Denk qua sfeer en muziek aan de LateNightTales serie. Op deze verzamelaar staat ook het nummer 1960 What? van Gregory Porter dat afgelopen jaar in de top 10 van de zwarte lijst van Radio 6 stond.

• Clay Hammond - "You Threw Out Your Lifeline", slow, catchy
• Betty Everett - "Someday Soon", swinging
• Oscar Aleman - "Besame Mucho", crazy swing!