Gogol Bordello - "Wonderlust King"

As ever, wonderful!

Charles Bukowski - "mind and heart"

unaccountably we are alone
forever alone
and it was meant to be
that way,
it was never meant
to be any other way -
and when the death struggle
begins
the last thing I wish to see
is
a ring of human faces
hovering over me -
better just my old friends,
the walls of myself,
let only them be there.

I have been alone but seldom
lonely.
I have satisfied my thirst
at the well
of my self
and that wine was good,
the best I ever had,
and tonight
sitting
staring into the dark
I now finally understand
the dark and the
light and everything
in between.

peace of mind and heart
arrives
when we accept what
is:
having been
born into this
strange life
we must accept
the wasted gamble of our
days
and take some satisfaction in
the pleasure of
leaving it all
behind.

cry not for me.

grieve not for me.

read
what I've written
then forget it
all.

drink from the well
of your self
and begin
again.

Britta Persson - "Current Affair Medium Rare"

Swedish, pop.

Swinging. Catchy. Nothing special, but nice enough.

Frente Cumbiero - "La Bocachico"

From "A soundtrack to un-convention Groningen 2011"

Swing! Oriental! Gypsy! Ska-ish! nice!!!

The Men Who Stared At Goats

George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey... Can't really go wrong with that.

CIA agents, "jedi soldiers", trying to use the mind for war.

Fun film. And probably scarily close to the truth at times.

Duffhuës - "Among the Ruins"

Dutch, singersongwriter. Bit dark. Sometimes the sound reminds a bit of the slower Nick Cave songs, but without their evocative scary quality.

Not bad. Good background music.

word: saudade

Saudade (singular) or saudades (plural) (pronounced [sɐ.uˈdaðɨ] or [sawˈdaðɨ] in European Portuguese,[1] [sa.uˈdad(ʒ)ɪ] or [sawˈdad(ʒ)ɪ] in Brazilian Portuguese[2] and [sawˈdade] in Galician) is a Portuguese and Galician word difficult to translate adequately, which describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which is lost. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return.

Saudade has been described as a "vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist ... a turning towards the past or towards the future".[3] A stronger form of saudade may be felt towards people and things whose whereabouts are unknown, such as a lost lover, or a family member who has gone missing. It may also be translated as a deep longing or yearning for something which does not exist or is unattainable.

Saudade was once described as "the love that remains" or "the love that stays" after someone is gone. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It can be described as an emptiness, like someone ( e.g., one's children, parents, sibling, grandparents, friends) or something (e.g., places, pets, things one used to do in childhood, or other activities performed in the past) that should be there in a particular moment is missing, and the individual feels this absence. In Portuguese, 'tenho saudades tuas', translated as 'I have saudades for you' means 'I miss you', but carries a much stronger tone. In fact, one can have 'saudades' of someone with which one is, but have some feeling of loss towards the past or the future.

George Orwell - "1984"

Still impressive as ever. The parts of The Book were a bit boring, but Orwell was a political analist, so it's to be understood

Silly enough, I didn't remember the ending correctly. Always get confused with Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"

Dresden Dolls - "Sing"

After reading a wonderful review of the reunion of the Dresden Dolls by by Neil Gaiman (http://blog.amandapalmer.net/post/1498306391/neil-gaiman-reviews-the-dresden-dolls-halloween-gig-for) listening to "Sing" again... shivers.

Sing for the bartender sing for the janitor sing
Sing for the cameras sing for the animals sing
Sing for the children shooting the children sing
Sing for the teachers who told you that you couldn't sing
Just sing

[...]

Sing cause its obvious sing for the astronauts sing
Sing for the president sing for the terrorists sing
Sing for the soccer team sing for the janjuweed sing
Sing for the kid with the phone who refuses to sing
Just sing

Life is no cabaret
We're inviting you anyway

You motherfuckers you'll sing someday...
You motherfuckers you'll sing someday...
You motherfuckers you'll sing someday...

Charles Bukowski - "the end of an era" (from: "Come on in!")

...

he had a
real
soul
and the usual
real
needs.

CocoRosie - "Smokey Taboo"

Never considered myself a fan of CocoRosie, but this strange floriental (floating oriental) song is haunting and nice.

Novastar - "Tunnelvision" (2007)

What is it that this song makes me think of? Some sad, lingering sound, yet with tempo.

Nice.

Paul Auster - "New York Trilogy"

Wrote so many notes during reading I'm not sure what to write here.

Blown away. Meta-writing to the max, superbe!

It keeps you wondering and wondering even more, changing thoughts and ideas all the time.

What a genius.

(I know, I'm not writing anything useful down. I'll see what I can do later on)

Charles Bukowski - "Come On In! new poems"

These poems are part of an archive of unpublished work that Charles Bukowski left to be published after his death.

Still love his deadpan voice.

Makes me wonder what it is like to write (poetry) on a typewriter.

It makes me starting to see the poetry in spilled salt, in the strong gusts of winds that whip the unfamiliar rain around, in everything.

... that their
morning eagerness
means that
they retired early
and thus wasted the
preceding
night

Pauline Cornelisse - "Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding"

Aardig om te lezen, zeker als verpozing of uitstel van nare, drukke zaken.

Het is voornamelijk een opsomming van waarnemingen. Sommigen beter dan anderen. Gaat nooit dieper, da's jammer.

Doet je even stilstaan bij je eigen taalgebruik en rare zinnetjes.

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Cult rockopera, starring Anthony Head (and Paris Hilton, eew!)

Amusing enough, though not overly drunkenly fun... it becomes better in the end.

And they, the fact that Paris Hilton allowed her face to fall off on stage is a definite plus.

Sunshine (2007)

Directed by Danny Boyle, music by Underworld

The sun is dying. Mankind has sent their last hope, "Icarus 2" to the sun, with an immense nuclear payload to restart it.

A psychological thriller, having to choose between crewmembers when not enough oxygen is left, guild, and deep desires.

One of the most chilling moments was the whispered "What do you see? What do you see?!" of the shrink to the captain, prior before his death after fixing some of the panels.

The "sudden" appearance of the crazy guy seemed a bit of a deus ex machina (well, the other way around I guess), but I did not care too much.

The "snaps" of near-insane crewmembers when a flashlight flashes over the camera, prior to entering "Icarus I" was wonderful.

Impressive eye-candy.

Theatrum Chemicum - "Preghiera Al Grande Archiletto Dell Universe" (Verso La Luce)

farewell ...

Roddy Doyle - "Blood"

from "Stories", an anthology by Al Sarrantonio and Neil Gaiman

Lovely small story about a man craving to bite necks. The 4-word adagium of the book, "...and then what happened?", applies pretty well.

My Brightest Diamond - "Inside a Boy"

strange clip, fascinating.
Music pretty good.
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB-FLxglSOA&feature=related )
(don't watch "be my husband".. that's sad. like, not--funny sad)