Catherine Graindorge ft Iggy Pop - "The Dictator"

great parlando, slightly less so when he starts to sing. Still fun.s

Kärlek och anarki / Love and Anarchy

OK series about a woman and IT guy who start challenging each other, of course the challenges bring about serious changes in their lives... not breathtaking but was enjoyable so far

John Mauceri - "For the Love of Music - A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening"

ok to read, although he makes some strange claims about how (classical) music is unique in ways other arts and senses are not. Does not always make sense to me. I wonder how critical his editor was, or whether this suffered from fanboy issues.

 

 

Since historians can choose where to begin and where to end their stories, Hayden White invented the word "emplotment" – meaning the imprint of dramatic structure onto what he saw as the randomness of events.

 

What Wagner did was create a set of short musical motifs that are presented at important moments in the drama and seem to represent those moments, characters, objects, and emotions. The brain links the melody with a visually and dramatically memorable moment. This procedure mysteriously creates a permanent relationship between the music and the object. From that moment onward, each time the melody is heard in the unfolding drama brings us back to its first iteration, and since the Ring takes place over generations, the sense of time and nostalgia become ever more emotive.

The Chantays - "Pipeline"

great surf rock

Amal El-Mohar & Max Gladstone - "This Is How You Lose the Time War"

wonderful original story about Red and Blue, agents of opposing forces Agency (cyborgs?) and Garden (organic), who fight each other through strands of time and leave letters.

    

A rush of wind splits the earth, a roar in darkness. Red clutches the petrified trunk closer than a lover. The wind peaks, screams, tosses bones about. A new note rises above the ossuary clatter, woken by the cavern's wind whistling over precise fluted pits in the bones Red has hung. The note grows, shifts, and swells into a voice.

So I go. I travel farther and faster and harder than most, and I read, and I write, and I love cities. To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am.

I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.
    But never again like this.
    I am so sorry. If I had been stronger. Faster. Smarter. Better. If I had been worth you. If–
    You would not want me to curse myself this way.
    You'll have to burn this. I hope you can keep it. I keep the memory. I imagine your hands on the paper. I imagine your fire.
    I wish I could hold you.
    I love you.

R.

Kleo

Fun series about a former GBR (DDR) Stasi assassin who takes vengeance upon those who betrayed her after she is freed when the wall falls.

Good music at times.

We Own This City

Gripping account, fictional but based on real events, of corrupt cops in Baltimore.