Haruki Murakami - "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle"

Ugh, this seems to become a regular thing... but I could not get into the story, delayed it, chose other things to read, turned back to it, had a hard time enjoying it...

It's not bad but, like other Murakami novels (with the notable exception of the "Egg... Wonderland..." one) I seem to miss the deeper philosophical or emotional meaning or layer and I simply Do. Not. Care. So. Much.

There were good pieces, and I was - obviously - quite interested in the strange things happening when he's in the well, passing into that other reality with the room 208 in the hotel, the woman talking to him in different voices, the dark anger trying to attack him...

But did the story grasp me? No.

Iggy Pop - "Post Pop Depression" (2016)

How could I have forgotten to log this one? Amazing album. Bring it on, Iggy, bring it on.

Nocturnal Animals (2016)

Enjoyable enough. The beginning was really David Lynch-ish. The inner story, of the book he wrote, was cool. But the outer story was thin. Things unexplained. Things shown that - in my opinion - did not seem to matter. Both Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhal did a great job. And the music was interesting, done by Abel Korzeniowski. Its theme reminded me of another movie but I could not think of what it was for the life of me. "Neon Demon" by Nicolas Winding Refn?
This one directed by Tom Ford by the way.

Willie Nelson - "Texas"

Has that minor key twanging guitar sound I like so much, although part of the song is quite major key country.